MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Another site has thrown its hat into the porn-specific, user-posted content arena – Shufuni.com.A late December press release issued by Shufuni.com touts the “latest ‘Web 2.0’ technologies,” and boasts a “smooth and clean interface for users to present porn or other sexually explicit content and videos, much like YouTube and Metacafe are doing but with different type of audience and content.”
Although text on Shufuni.com indicates that the site is currently in beta testing, according to the press release, Shufuni.com already hosts over 5,000 adult videos uploaded by users.
“Shufuni.com means watch, tag, upload, and share porn clips,” Shufuni.com editor John Mayers states in the press release. According to the release, the name is derived from an Arabic roughly translated as “Look at me.”
Mayers says that Shufuni is designed to be easy to use and navigate, with quick and simple access to the most recently uploaded, most frequently viewed and “highest rated” videos in the site’s database.
“If you’ve been to YouTube and MetaCafe and managed to use their services, Shufuni.com might be your new home for Porn,” adds Mayers, noting that the site’s features include Ajax file uploading, “tagged and categorized browsing,” videos in Flash format and the ability to add comments to uploaded clips.
Mayer acknowledges that there are other sites already purporting to be the “porn version” of YouTube or MetaCafe, but asserts that the sites in question fall short.
“We’ve seen PornoTube and Xtube but the problem with both of these sites is the insufferable loading time for videos to play,” Mayer says in the release, adding that the “bothersome interface and ongoing slowness in their videos” of such sites is “almost unforgivable” to site users.
Mayers added that the “buzz and hype this brand is gathering is much more than we expected,” and says Shufuni has received amazing feedback about the site.
Mayers says that “being the hottest thing around” in a time when YouTube and other similar sites are starting to reject sexually explicit videos comes not to simply “just being there for the users who wants to upload and share more than just funny clips.”
“If you’re one of those people who is looking for porn or sex tags on Youtube or Metacafe, don’t waste your time as they simply don’t allow it,” asserts Mayer in the press release, adding that such sites are “deleting over 50,000 porn videos a day.”
“I would definitely suggest you would either upload or view the content you’re looking for in the right place,” Mayers says, “and this place is called Shufuni.com.”
