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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?"
But more likely it's a paid ad...
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The shameless self-promotion on Slashdot and Digg (and probably elsewhere) kind of grates, but you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette. You have to swallow your pride a little when you're starting out, so please give them a break on this. Think of it like this: we're getting a chance to get in early while the contribution:pageview ratio is skewed, and we have an opportunity to perhaps make a little money.
But then again, it's not exactly the first advert in history to offer me a 'chance to make real money'. Apparently I could be making $2000/hour just by filling out surveys online!
It is, however, the most Web2.0-compliant site I've ever seen. If it is at all possible to compete with or even oust YouTube, 'eefoof' certainly seems to be the site for the job.
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.
Can we stop using the phrase ______-killer? A product can have weight on its own merit, and some companies to coexist even if there is a clear top dog (google, anyone?).
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What is to stop anyone from going to YouTube, searching for the most popular videos of the moment and uploading them to the new site. They would then be getting Ad money for videos that didn't belong to them.
These clowns have been spamming this junk all over the Net today.
Creating fake accounts, pretending to be people jumping on the bandwagon, etc.
Die, spammers, die.
...every new site/service has to have a retarded name? eefoof, Okapipi, Dirty Rhino, Blue Hippo, come on!
Haha, and that is nothing, have you heard about Yahoo!, Google, MicroSoft (what does these guys sell? micro and soft?)
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Holy shit! Have these people ever heard of is_resource()?
And what about prepending mysql_connect with a @ to hide the error messages from naughty boys who you don't want knowing the location of your web dir and your mysql socket?It's not often that I'm out-noobed in PHP, but these guys have managed it.
As soon as you add money, the signal-to-noise gets much, much worse. The "OMG, $$$$!!!" crowd will be uploading any piece of junk they can find in the hopes that it'll stick and they get a few pennies for the efforts. There's nothing like the Colbert Report posted 100 times to ruin it. It might've been better if Google had done it; at least the search might've had a chance of finding something novel. I won't be all sour grapes. It may work out after all if they have a good search / ranking system
-TashI love these headlines. "DS Killer", "Microsoft iPod Killer". Whether a bias opinion or bad judgement by the submitter, few companies would like to have their product labeled as the "other brand killer", for the reasons that 1) it still keeps the other product in the potential-customer's mind and 2) it does give the company developing said 'killer' a rather aggressive and nasty appearance that may backfire. "Why do you want to kill my iPod, mister? I love my iPod!"
Also, look for the revenue sharing to occassionally go towards legal fees, as I'm sure there will be more than one-piece of copyrighted material available for view. Someone will upload clips of Korgoth of Barbaria that someone missed, or something along those lines, and then either complain about not getting paid for the traffic, or having to fight off Time Warner lawyers.
And reverting back to my original point, can we please stop diagnosing something as something else's 'killer'? The market is very finicky, and often things that take off are things no one thought would. I laughed at the iPod when it first came out, now I own one. The PSP was supposed to outsell the DS by a phenomenal margin, and that's not hapening. And most of all, it has less of a chance of happening if someone starts showing off their design and yelling "but it's better and has go-faster stripes!".
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The fundamental problem with this business model is that even on services where there's no revenue attached, you get 20 people uploading the same videos. When you attach money to it, you can guarantee that any popular post gets re-posted 25,000 times by others hoping to make a buck. Then what happens when someone posts up entertainment skits produced by others? Now you are making revenue from someone else's works. This just seems to have a giant "TOO COMPLICATED TO SURVIVE" stamped on it's forehead.
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MicroSoft (what does these guys sell? micro and soft?)
Toilet paper, of course.
If they can't survive a slashdotting of their front page, how are they going stream large media files to an audience big enough that the revenue share we would get would is an amount greater than a couple cents?
You can't kill YouTube. Everyone knows that the internet won't work without tubes!
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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?
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eefoof image hits for the month: 10,000
FUNNY.JPG hits for the month: 100
eefoof image ad revenue: $1,000
FUNNY.JPG revenue earned: $10.00
eefoof's expenses $5.00
FUNNY.JPG earned you: $5.00
Looks like opportunity for some Hollywood accounting
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YouTube's been around for just over a year and already we're looking for its killer? Couldn't we just want YouTube to be improved a bit rather than migrating en masse from site to site every 15 minutes?
Or maybe I'm just getting old.
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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.
I bet its more likely slashdot is a eefoof.com killer.
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Hey, I have an idea for a new Web 2.0 site: killr.us! It's a glorified portal site linking to other Web 2.0 sites who are trying to kill each other. Users get to vote on which site is the most popular and which one is the most likely to kill someone.
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Look at my Web 2.0/Dotcom-compliant features:
Web 2.0
- Rounded corners!
- Completely AJAX-based navigation!
- The navigation uses a cloud of words in varying font sizes! Exclusively! Maybe we'll even use varying colors!!
- The site uses XHTML 1.1, even though no browser can differentiate it from HTML 4.01 due to the IE not understanding application/xhtml+xml!
- CSS feeds all over the place!
- Misspelled domain name! (In fact, I should register dethmatch.com as well)
- Stupid, irrelevant tagline! ("Where the killr is the killer killer.")
- Web 2.0 buttons!
- Digg links on every page!
- Links to MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and delicio.us on every page!
- In fact, the links are loaded into an IFrame using AJAX!!
Dotcom
- Inane business model guarantees VC attention!
- At least one domain name ends in
- This has "stupid" written all over it! It has to be good!
Come on, dump ten million dollars into my venture! Please!
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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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I think we've found the eefoof killer.
Any time you have the statment: Is this/This is a [insert hot popular item] killer, it isn't.
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I'm curious why people don't think this "kill feature" would take all of *one weekend* for YouTube or GoFish or any of the other video sites to copy in two seconds if it were looking like a good idea?
I'm starting a pool on how long it takes before copyright holders sue them for paying unauthorized posters.
YouTube is bad enough, but there's no money involved to spur posting. If there's one thing a cartel hates worse than people giving away their stuff for free, it's people people giving away their stuff for money.