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YouTube Killer (Media Portal w/ Revenue Sharing)
MattPF writes "eefoof.com is a user-submitted content site similar to YouTube/Google Video which allows users to submit Videos, Images, Flash and Audio while receiving a share of the site's ad revenue. For example, if someone uploads a really popular video that accounts for a lot of traffic in a given month, the user will receive a good portion of the video ad revenue for the month. Could this be the YouTube killer?"
It looks like several are doing this. The NYT has a story about Lulu.tv today. And it mentions revver.com is doing something similar.
I can practically count on one hand the times I find a link to a YouTube video where the actual copyright owner has uploaded it, rather than it being a snippet of TV show, a film clip or a whole music video.
Right now, it's a pain for the owners to constantly watch YouTube and remove them, particularly when it's usually fans of the people involved uploading them in barely-watchable low quality, just for fun.
If people are starting to make actual money from this, however, the studios are going to smack it with an absolutele vengeance, just on principle, surely?
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
It looks like they plan to delete duplicates. Look at their wiki (linked under contact us) page. They also have a link to report dupes on every page.
The usage of @ degrades performance drastically, you're better off shutting the errors off with ini_set( 'display_errors', 0 ); and having everything go to the log file. OTOH a minimal amount of error checking wouldn't be bad either so you can customize the error messages triggered.
Okay, Yahoo! doesn't really mean anything, but Google is a search engine that lets you search millions and millions of pages, so naming after a big number isn't bad. And Microsoft is a company that sells software for microcomputers. Sure, we don't really call them microcomputers, but we did when MS started up.
eh?! you are getting 1% (or half of it, subtracting expenses) because that is all your contribution to their revenue. you are not helping them make the rest of 99% so why should they pay you any cut of that?! The rest of the (10000-100)=9900 hits eefoof receives are from FUNNY.JPGs from other people and eefoof has to pay them 50% as well - so nett, eefoof pays 50% of their ad-revenue from your submission to you. it's a fair deal according to their arithmetic.
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Possibly? But more likely it's a paid ad...
Has someone been sniffing the fireworks smoke a little early and a bit too much?
Hover your mouse over MattPE and see what is displayed:
http://www.eefoof.com/
Some bonehead (I won't go back and read who the editor was) that let that message go through without checking an obvious connection). I demand a recount on the editorial elections to see if he really received enough votes. Besides, you'd think MattPE would have an id other than eefoof.com when he submitted his message.
The problem is he's going to get a Slashdot effect just because people are going to jump the gun instead of walking away from his site entirely.