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Remembering A Man Called Horse

Carnavale de Sade, Arcane's and Joey Strange's long-running BDSM/piercing/bake sale, is wrapping up on May 7 with a party sure to upend your narrow Porn Valley sensibilities

Gram Ponante ·

Works WorldWide Looking for a Few Good Girls

MIAMI – Works WorldWide, Inc., a producer of adult sites and DVDs, has announced an opportunity for adult glamour models visiting, or located within, the greater Miami area, to apply for upcoming shoots.

LiveCamNetwork.com Announces Girl-A-Thong

TORONTO – Live video chat site LiveCamNetwork.com has announced a four-hour free chat event titled "Girl-A-Thong" to debut Wednesday, May 4, at 8:00 p.m. EST.

NYCGuys: "How many guys can fit in a phone booth?"

NEW YORK – New York City blog NYCGuys.com asks the question, "How many guys will strip to their underwear and climb into a phone booth together?" The answer is presented as a 3-minute video clip, available free on the site.

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A Verification Alternative

On July 3, 1995, a Time magazine cover featured a green-faced boy, eyes agog, staring at a computer screen with a huge caption that blared, "On a Screen Near You: Cyberporn." The article caused an instant uproar across the country, but nowhere was the reaction more intense than in Washington.

Frederick Lane ·
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How to Pick A DRM Provider

In this article I am going to go over some of the basics of Digital Rights Management (DRM) providers and some of the things that you should consider when looking for a DRM provider.

David Eisenbacher ·
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Notes from A Greyhound Station

Hollywood's White Lotus club, which used to be a great dance bar called Crush, which prior to that was a Greyhound station (the new one is next door), was host to a mainstream entertainment staple that is becoming more and more common in the adult industry: a co-production

Gram Ponante ·
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A Love-Hate Relationship

If you read XBiz.com as often as you should (I recommend once a day, at least), two facts should be obvious to you. One is that people hate the adult industry.

Matt O'Connor ·
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Holly Randall: Always a Pervert

I spoke with Holly Randall as she drove through the Valley to the Randall compound in Malibu

Gram Ponante ·
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Ironhead 3: A Path to Hoping

Tina Tyler's office at Lexington Steele's Mercenary Building is amazing

Gram Ponante ·

National A-1 Ramps Up HotMovies.com Content

Adding to its more than 20,000 movies titles, National A-1, parent company of HotMovies.com, announced this week that it has signed more than 200 new content providers for the first quarter of 2005.

Apple Tiff: British Man Says, “I Am Not a Cybersquatter”

In a case that echoes similar domain name struggles endured by adult companies and actors, a British technology CEO has been ordered to surrender the domain itunes.co.uk to Apple, founder of the online music store.

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Grow in a Maturing Market

A quick review of the panelist biographies from last month's Internext seminars in Las Vegas reveal an increasing number of former bankers, marketing experts, Fortune 500 corporate executives and more than a few mainstream Internet industry veterans moving into the adult online content market.

Greg Evans ·
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Hispanic More Than a Niche

Latino and Hispanic Americans represent the fastest-growing online ethnic group with an estimated buying power of more than $500 billion, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.

Rodger Jacobs ·
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A Desert Island: 2

In Part 1 we looked at our industry in comparison to Las Vegas. Today we'll examine content, traffic and lessons learned:

Jack Mardack ·
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A Desert Island: 1

In 1835 Charles Darwin visited a tiny cluster of moss-covered islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They were later named the Galapagos, after the giant land tortoises once abundant there.

Jack Mardack ·

BB Entertainment to Publish A-Z Adult Directory

Production studio BB Entertainment expects to release the P.I.N.K. Pages, a comprehensive listing of "everything someone needs to produce and release a movie," in time for Erotica Expo NY in May.

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A Closer Look At .XXX

I've read several message board threads lately, here at XBiz, and elsewhere, that cited an AVN Online report on Utah's efforts to curb the access of online adult entertainment within the state. These threads, and the original article, tend to paint the issue of a .xxx top level domain (TLD) and government imposed censorship with the same brush. This is not only a wrongheaded interpretation of the facts, but one that does a disservice to the industry.

Stephen Yagielowicz ·

Open Source Apps to Get a Performance Boost

The April upgrade of open-source development tool GCC may help to boost the performance of many widely used applications such as Linux, Firefox, OpenOffice.org and Apache by allowing for a more sophisticated translation of commands written in high-level languages, industry experts predict.

Newbies Get a Lesson in Adult

Since our nation’s colleges are not currently offering many courses in adult entertainment, several industry veterans stepped in to put a new twist on the term "adult education" at an all-day, intensive seminar titled, “Adult Entertainment for Fun and Profit.”