New video site pays users

You'll probably be hearing this from young videocam wielders you know before you read it here: Just-launched eefoof.com plans to give YouTube.com a run for its money by "offering videographers a share of the advertising dollars that their movies generate," CNET reports. "Video sharing on the Internet is one of the hottest sensations in media. Every day, people from all over the world are posting homemade movies at one of more than 150 sites. Sometimes those clips attract big audiences. At places such as YouTube, Yahoo Video and eBaumsworld, the creators of popular clips aren't compensated." Of course, eefoof won't pay people uploading someone else's copyrighted video. The service was created, CNET adds, by three guys in their early 20s who'd met online playing videogames – they'd never seen each other. YouTube's doing ok, too. USATODAY says it's now the 39th most popular site on the Web (75th two months ago), 50,000 videos get uploaded to it daily, and Hollywood wants to promote its movies on the site. "The success of YouTube, which a half-year after its launch is streaming more than 50 million video clips a day, has spawned 180 video sites in the past three months alone. In a sidebar, USATODAY zooms in on four of them, except that one on this list, BitTorrent, is a well-established, globally used file-sharing technology, not a site.