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Banking on Bitcoins
It sounds perfect: an alternative currency that works in every country; has no chance of chargebacks; miniscule fees; and provides the world’s greatest investment opportunity.
Staying on Top With Credit Card Billing
As the adult entertainment industry continues to evolve, so do online billing solutions — and for adult webmasters, traditional online credit card billing continues to be vitally important in the North American market. Credit card payments take a back seat to other payment methods in many European countries, but for adult webmasters serving the North American market, access to credit card billing is crucial. The vast majority of people who pay for online adult entertainment in the U.S. and Canada are still doing so with credit cards, and any adult webmasters who are seeking North American customers need to have an extensive knowledge of innovations, trends, solutions and developments in credit card billing.
XBIZ Retreat Miami Hosts Most Highly-Attended Event to Date
This week’s XBIZ Retreat — an all-inclusive, invite-only event — boasted the highest attendance to date since launching one year ago, bringing together adult retail market leaders for three days of private meetings, networking and special events.
Selling Free: Mechanics of the Business Model
There’s a lot of discussion in adult webmastering circles these days about the future of premium porn and the move to free, ad-supported websites as the business model of choice for many operators. Piracy is frequently cited as the culprit driving porn’s market shift and indeed, porn’s piracy problem is mainstream’s problem, too — since “nobody” wants to pay for movies, music or games anymore, they want it all for free...
XBIZ Summit Sets New Standards
The scent of muddled mint filled the air as Mojitos mixed with marketing in the Miami moonlight — accompanied by strains of hard rock guitar, wailing in wanton abandonment
XBIZ Summit Day 2 Seminars Deliver
The 2013 XBIZ Summit brought the latest installment of its popular educational seminar series to Miami for a second day, featuring an adult entertainment industry insider’s look at the path to porn profits today and the potholes along the way.
XBIZ Summit Prize Winners Announced
XBIZ Events Director Moe Helmy announced the winners of the first-ever “gamified” show competition at the XBIZ Summit, presented by AWEmpire, on Friday morning during the Farewell Toast at the Mayfair Hotel & Spa.
Topical Sexual Enhancers: Pleasure Products' Hot Topic
Although topical enhancement is the new “hot topic” in the pleasure products world, the sex jazzers have been a mainstay in the industry for nearly three decades.
XBIZ Summit Day 1 Seminars, Special Events
The 2013 XBIZ Summit in Miami spun up the latest installment of its educational seminar series with a roundup of the adult entertainment industry’s best and brightest.
XBIZ Summit Sizzles on First Full Day
Summertime started early on Wednesday at the Mayfair Hotel & Spa, where the top digital media professionals in the adult industry gathered for the first full day of events at the XBIZ Summit, presented by AWE.
XBIZ Summit Warms Up Miami
Early bird attendees of the XBIZ Summit warmed up to a day of relaxation and networking on the first of this three-day adult entertainment industry event.
According to Planogram — Setting Up Retailers for Success
Planogram (also plan-o-gram) n. a diagram or model that indicates the placement of retail products on shelves in order to maximize sales.
Dev Depo: Modernizr, Finding a Perfect Fit
Taking advantage of cool new web technologies is great fun, until you have to support browsers that lag behind, says the publisher of Modernizr (www.modernizr.com), a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in a website user’s browser.
PAY4 Brings New Payments Solutions to XBIZ Summit
The team at alternative payments solution provider PAY4 has arrived in Miami for XBIZ Summit 2013.
Webmaster Central to Show Off Mobile Products at XBIZ Summit
Webmaster Central will preview its latest mobile content products at XBIZ Summit this week.
Dev Depo: CodePen.IO, Interactive Coding Platform
A warning to coders: we apologize in advance for the number of hours you’ll spend at CodePen (www.codepen.io), an interactive coding platform that allows users to “instantly build, explore and teach the web,” but rest assured, it will be time well spent: as CodePen not only enables you to post HTML, CSS and JavaScript snippets in job-winning coding examples known as “Pens,” but to modify the structure of existing Pens submitted by other users — viewing the results of the code modifications in a real-time preview pane.
Dev Depot: Symb.ly — Free Icon Downloads
Calling itself the largest collection of mono icons and symbols designed especially for mobile apps, wireframes and web design, Symbly (www.symb.ly) offers a range of free (and accessible) icon downloads, as well as premium packs of vector versions of its icons for designers seeking to add a fresh, contemporary look to their projects.
XBIZ Announces Miami Summit Speakers
XBIZ, The Industry Source, has announced its finalized list of panelists and presenters for its upcoming XBIZ Summit in Miami.
Affil4You Supports 2013 XBIZ Summit as Gold Sponsor
Affil4You enlisted as a Gold Sponsor of the upcoming XBIZ Summit in Miami, making it one of the tropical digital media event’s main supporters. The Summit will run from May 14-17.
ASACP to Meet Digital Media Industry Leaders at XBIZ Summit
The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) has announced its return participation in the upcoming XBIZ Summit, scheduled for May 14-17 at the Mayfair Hotel & Spa, in Coconut Grove, Florida.