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XBIZ.net Santa Barbara Networking Event Set for This Saturday
XBIZ is pleased to announce that California’s first XBIZ.net industry networking event will be hosted by Adult Link Market this Saturday, Aug. 28 at Blush Restaurant in Santa Barbara.
Novel Trends
There is no doubt that trends pushed onto society by media affect their habits as consumers. The adult novelty industry’s top providers recently sat down with XBIZ to reflect on shifting consumer fads.
Converting Pirates Into Paying Surfers
Talk to anyone in the digital content business and you will learn that rampant piracy has taken a dramatic toll on revenue streams. This is due in part to consumers seeking a discounted or free alternative to what they often characterize as “overpriced” material — even to the point of actually breaking the law to obtain it.
Before It Was Legal — Man, Did We Have Fun!
When we were outlaws, each of us was working as visual pleasure providers, shooting the images, being part of the debauchery either on or off camera and making the content before it was known as content. Back then, some 45 years ago — before it was legal — each of us faced going to jail. Sometimes even to prison. Anybody remember that? Well, I do. Man, those were the days. Ducking and dodging the law was part of the business, the nature of the job, a risk of the trade. It was just a part of the game.
XBIZ LA 2011 Official Event Website Now Live
XBIZLA.com, the official website of the industry’s leading digital media trade event XBIZ LA, is now live serving up initial details surrounding the highly anticipated event set for Feb. 7-9 at Hollywood’s luxurious Sofitel Hotel.
Company Profile: Cam Man
If there is one word that could never be used to describe Dan Hogue, it is “complacent.” The Melbourne, Fla.-based founder/CEO of CamWorld.com (formerly PrivateCamZ.com/ CamZ.com) and the affiliate program DateCamCash, has been active in adult Internet since 1998 — and one of the most important things he has learned during 12 years online is the importance of forging ahead.
Director’s Chair: Jax of All Trades
Jax (yup, that’s his name) could be a poster boy for the U.S. Army’s “Be All You Can Be” campaign. Well, except for the fact he’s a porn director, and he’s beyond enlistment age, and you can’t have a soul patch in the Army, and — okay, forget the Army poster.
4th XBIZ.net London Gathering Set for Sept. 14
The fourth XBIZ.net London Gathering will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 14, once more enabling adult industry executives from the U.K. and continental Europe to make new contacts and explore new business opportunities.
Mobile: PimpRoll Leads the Caravan
Everyone knows that mobile delivery of content is the wave of the future, and thanks to an innovative system launched recently, PIMPROLL is “hanging 10” on that wave.
Executive Seat: Richard Arnold — Purely Professional
Who do you call when you want to take your already successful adult franchise to the next level? Who has the brains, the brawn and the right names in the Rolodex to give you global reach for exploiting existing opportunities, not to mention creating new ones?
WIA Profile: Jelena Jensen
Each month, industry news media organization XBIZ spotlights the career accomplishments and outstanding contributions of Women in Adult. WIA profiles offer an intimate look at the professional lives of the industry's most influential female executives.
Web Consortium Wants Linked Open Data
There is a near infinite amount of data floating around cyberspace, that when taken as a whole, develops an in-depth demo- and psychographic profile of individual consumers. For example, tying the purchases you make using your credit or debit card to the titles of the books and magazines you read; the videos you watch; the music you listen to; the places you travel to — the list is never ending in our barcoded, scan-and-swipe world. Add an email address and social network contacts into this data set, and provide it all to today’s perceptive online marketers, and you have a recipe for advertising success.
Biz Going Down the Tubes?
Watching the political talking heads making their predictions last night as voters across the country head to their primaries today, it occurred to me these cadres of insiders in the world of all things Beltway are not much different then pundits of porn who make up the panels at our industry conferences. Being invited to moderate or participate on of these brain trusts in an honor I enjoyed several time during the Phoenix Forum and it seemed no matter the topic listed on the schedule, the conversation invariably turned to what is believed to be one of the scorns of our beloved, and beleaguered, industry, tube sites.
WIA Profile: Krystal Solis
Each month, industry news media organization XBIZ spotlights the career accomplishments and outstanding contributions of Women in Adult. WIA profiles offer an intimate look at the professional lives of the industry's most influential female executives.
Getting Ready With HTML5
For adult webmasters, staying current with the Internet’s core technologies is a vital business concern — with questions being raised over the timeliness and suitability of deployment and the most advantageous uses of any new infrastructural assets. Such is the case with the highly anticipated shift towards adult website development using HTML5 — the latest in a line of official HyperText Markup Language coding specifications.
JQuery Block: Trying Image Manipulation
While jQuery is useful for enhancing user interaction and content display, it also makes things “prettier” when used appropriately.
Looking at the Web’s Big Future
For forward-looking developers, the evolving nature of cyberspace provides a range of challenges and opportunities, with the path to near-term profits and beyond already outlined for those who are able to take notice of the bigger picture.
Sitting Down With the Top Adult SEO Experts
As website owners and affiliates seek to improve the quality and quantity of their organic traffic, many are attempting to expand their search engine optimization efforts. The two biggest obstacles that novice SEOs face are the constantly changing trends dictated by clandestine decisions of the search engine companies, and the simple fact that most people who claim to be SEO experts actually turn out to know little or nothing about the methods that will cause a site to rise in the listings of major search engines. For that reason, XBIZ sat down with some of the top names in adult SEO and asked for current trends or tips that website owners might find useful while evolving their own search traffic strategies.
Stuck in the Middle With You
We are well aware of what it costs to make a good movie. And we know how much you can spend to make a bad one. The range is vast. So is the difference in the quality of the product.
WordPress Workshop: Speed-Boosting Techniques
Adult webmasters cannot get enough of the WordPress blogging platform and for many good reasons — but add custom themes, plugins, add-ons and a variety of tweaks into the mix and your site’s performance can easily come grinding to a halt. Even in its stock configuration using the default “Kubrick” theme, WordPress can benefit from some performance enhancing modifications that can make a visible difference in load times.