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?"

Comments

Web2.1

[linvir]

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.

Lulu.tv

[samuel4242]

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.

The new killer-killer...

[BecomingLumberg]

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?).

Problem

[Galston]

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.

SPAM

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:SPAM

[linvir]

There is a beautiful kind of irony in it though. Because of their haste to sell themselves, they've overstepped their own capacity and blasted themselves offline through sheer volume of traffic.

Perhaps if they'd had a little patience, and spread the big traffic spikes out over a few days, they'd actually be able to benefit from them. As it stands now, I just tried to create an account, got a bunch of database errors, and gave up.

I probably won't be back.

Re:So how come...

[xtracto]

...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?)

PHP quality

[linvir]

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /home/webadmin/domains/eefoof.com/public_html/incl udes/setup.php on line 19

Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/webadmin/domains/eefoof.com/public_html/incl udes/setup.php on line 20

Warning: mysql_query(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) in /home/webadmin/domains/eefoof.com/public_html/incl udes/track.php on line 61

Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /home/webadmin/domains/eefoof.com/public_html/incl udes/track.php on line 61
Logo register login

Holy shit! Have these people ever heard of is_resource()?

if(!is_resource($database_connection)) {
show_error_message();
dont_try_to_make_any_mor e_database_calls();
}

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?

$database_connection = @mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass);

It's not often that I'm out-noobed in PHP, but these guys have managed it.

Re:PHP quality

[metarox]

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.

slashdotted

[Britz]

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?