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No Cure for the Summer Blues
Every summer for the past 20 years I’ve been told that the predictable hot-season production slump was the worst ever seen. Come September, we were all happily back working our asses off as producers scramble to finish out their yearly title quotas.
Internal Stats
Perhaps the single biggest intellectual shift for adult businesses entering the online market is the one involving the amount and kinds of statistical data available.
Good Porn Isn't Hard to Define
‘B Skow is my screen name,” said the long-time advertising and celebrity photographer who has been directing for Vivid since 2005. For a dozen or so years before that, Vivid was just one of Skow’s clients, albeit a special one, among a number of Fortune 500s and media companies.
Red or Blue: How Will They Affect YOU?
After (barely) surviving eight years with President George W. Bush in the White House, the adult industry will be paying close attention to the candidates and asking "how will this affect me and my business?"
The Hypocrisy of Condom Studios
In Europe, you can be an adult performer and be accepted in your neighbors and community. In the U.S., however, shame is still associated with sex. That may be a reason for our industry’s success. Just as prohibition created unrest and desire in a country supposedly driven by spiritual values, we tend to want anything that resembles forbidden fruit.
All Politics Is Local
Local elections impact the daily lives of most citizens more than national elections in just about every way imaginable, and yet they are given almost none of the public attention span by commercial media outlets.
Become the Shark
It's no secret that times are tough for the adult industry, with pre-election prosecutorial fears, a weakening global economy, and escalating prices all taking their toll on operators of all sizes.
The XBIZ Weekly Retail Round-Up
The weekly collection of articles reporting on local laws and battles that affect today's adult retailers.
The XBIZ Weekly Tech Watch
This week's tech watch brings word of a helpful new application for Apple's iPhone, as well as other new online startups aimed at making the web more interesting.
Anonymous Web Surfing
When users surf the net, browsing for their heart's desire, every click and page request is recorded, and a physical address is logged in the form of an IP address.
My Young Friends Offers AI Chat Bots
MyYoungFriends.com has announced its interactive chat system that offers more than 50 unique, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chat bots, designed to imitate real teenage girls.
Getting Married? You May Want a Prenup
At this time of year, the weather's beautiful and whole lot of people are getting married. That's a good thing, for as a friend of mine once told me, "Marriage is a sacred institution. It's something a man only does ... two or three times in his life!"
XBIZ Adds Free Speech Coalition Blog
XBIZ adds Diane Duke to its roster of industry leaders blogging on the adult industry
ICANN Opens Pandora's Box
Earlier this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced its approval of the biggest expansion to the Internet over the past forty years; recommending a new Top Level Domain (TLD) addressing system that will dramatically increase the number of available domain names.
XBIZ 2009 Conference Registration Gets Underway
Registration kicked off Tuesday for the XBIZ 2009 "State of the Industry" Conference slated Feb. 10-12 at the Warner Center Marriott in Woodland Hills, Calif.
ColorMunki Photo
Color problems got you singing the blues? Mismatched prints and irate clients making you see red? Then you need ColorMunki — an integrated color control solution that lets users calibrate their displays, projectors and printers for accurate color matching.
The Real Value of Sponsor Payouts
As more new webmasters enter the adult online affiliate business and veteran webmasters continue to complain about an 'ever-shrinking' porn economy, examining the real value of sponsor payouts is something everyone ought to be doing with a keen eye.
The XBIZ Weekly Retail Round-Up
The weekly collection of articles reporting on local laws and battles that affect today's adult retailers.
EU Plans to Lead Transition to Web 3.0
Europe is planning to take the lead in rolling out the next generation of Internet services, with the European Commission releasing an outline of the steps that Europe will take to usher in "the next wave of the Information Revolution."
Visa to Offer Mobile Money Transfer
Visa and U.S. Bank have announced plans to launch a mobile money transfer program that will allow registered U.S.-based Visa cardholders to securely send funds to one another via their mobile phones.