Well, quite a few months back, VoIP News ran a few soothsaying quotables from VoIP people like myself, and I’m (not) surprised that a number of my predictions have come to pass:

Pure-play VoIP providers will start taking cues from new players like GrandCentral and TalkPlus. So, instead of just getting dialtone and voicemail on your Vonage, hopefully by this time next year, you’ll have all the cool telephony features you get from somebody like TalkPlus.

And here’s the kicker:

In 2007, pure-players will either provide value or die out.

So, with the recent folding of pure-player Sunrocket on the negative side, and the acquisition of GrandCentral by Google on the positive side, it seems that my prediction was accurate. Value creators flourish while imitators get buried.