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Get Played. Get Paid.
vile8 writes "Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat Software, is in the NY Times this morning
covering a new co-operative business plan for viral video makers. Just like his Self-publishing
site Lulu, the new plan provides 80% of the revenues back to the creators. It is
based on something quite common, Co-ops. In this plan, if there were
5000 users at 14.95 each there would be 59,800 that would get divvied up among those that brought
traffic to the site. The 'pro' users also get larger upload space, and longer cam captures. Other unique features of the site are the podcast generation per author, author vlog pages, and open-source-specific OGM video
format conversions."
But on the other it would be cool to have a co-operative for video game developers. Is there one already? Or is the business model too hard for that?
...you could just upload and watch movies for free on Google, You-Tube, etc.
If there's one thing the Internet has shown, it's that people do *not* want to pay for content. This is what Google knows and it's why they base nearly all their revenue on contextual ads instead of trying to sell access to Gmail or Maps.
This sounds like just another 'make easy money on teh interweb!' scheme that's going to disappear pretty quick.
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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Remember, this is /. so I don't think you have much of a chance.
At first I thought that it was an ad to "get laid."
...but then I remembered that this is Slashdot, and such an event is impossible to carry out in our realm of g33kdom.
The video site http://www.current.tv/ has a similar setup, but they are connected to a TV network as well. Users submit videos, users watch them for free, and if other users mod them up enough, they get greenlit for airplay on the real TV channel. Then the makers get paid. $500 for your first greenlight.
Lots of great video content there already.
But, if you were a /. reader, and somehow did manage -- perhaps the partner got paid -- to get laid, would the resulting clip get played?
This is the big question.
"Get Laid, Get Paid"???
Really had my attention for a sec...
Why can't all fpga/microcontroller manufacturers just release free optimizing compilers???
But other free services like Vobbo do.
Yet another competitor in an already very full market. Not seeing the purpose, but throw more money into the ring.
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Disregarding the actual content of the story, I the think submitter is being a bit deceptive. He is affiliated with the LuLu site (as seen by his link and comments)
He should at least have the good nature and objectivity to note that he is affiliated with story he is publicising
...by the year, some reasonable fee, IF, there was a toggle to filter out commercial ads/spam sites.
Good catch, moderators - few things are more -1, Offtopic on Slashdot than getting laid.
Two issues I see:
Viral marketting works because people see and exchange videos etc. If You drive them to a pay link then most will just pass on the vid.
If it allows downloading, then people will d/l and post or email teh vid outside of Lulu - which means real popular vids may get viewed without the author getting paid by lulu.
I think Googles "we'll give you a cut of teh add revenue" is a smarter move since it incorporates the "payment" to Google (page views of ads) in viewing the vid, and it rewards popular vids becasue they drive viewing ads and thus money to Google; while not requiring money from either party - iploader or viewer.
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
Maybe he's smart enough to use the best tool for a job. If you're not, then you fail it, Stalyn.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
If I were going to try to make money with revenue sharing from video downloads, I'd go straight for porn video clips.
The reality is that most people would rather watch porn than someone's vlog or singing elmo video.
Mark Ewing founded Red Hat in 1993. Bob Young's company, ACC Bookstores, bought out Mark in 1995 and Young became CEO until 1999.
Darryl L. Pierce "What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?"
*dons flamesuit*
It's just he is SO confident of his RedHat-inity that he is not afraid of showing his MacOSX-ine side.
I misread the title, and I was so excited for a minute.
Cinelerra
However I doubt Bob Young does *any* video editing.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
I have to imagine that would go something like the tourettes guy, then... yes.
Actually there is a host of programs: ffmpeg, mencoder and mplayer, vlc, flvtool2, just to name a few. Linux is an AMAZING video editing platform... but I have to say, the macs are damn fine looking laptops and run a great many open source apps with little trouble. Though hand-editing command line options for video is never easy or fun, there are even packages like ffmpeg-x which runs on both platforms. He actually knows his codecs and history pretty well.
Revver pays based on an advertising model. lulu.tv is a co-op, that is paying out 80% of what we take in. Aside from that we dont ship your video onto peoples websites as it seems like a less effective (though we could be wrong) way for the creator to make a name for themselves (though they are free to embed it). Instead using the co-op we don't have to rely on that type of marketing and instead provide downloads, xml feeds of every variety, and try to encourage sharing to raise interest in the creator, instead of whatever company the ad is pimping. Chances are the ad based variety is a good model too, its just a different model with less advantages for the author to create fame for themselves.
Tell that to every NASCAR driver on the circuit. Pardon me, gotta go watch the Firecracker^H^H^H^HPepsi 400 on ma PVR.