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The XBIZ Weekly Tech Watch
Several great new online startups get exposure in this week's Tech Watch, which includes looks at new goodies from Apple and Microsoft.
Director's Chair: The Lighter Side of Jonni Darkko
Jonni Darkko left Chicago a decade and a half ago, armed with his trained photographer's eye, a taste for gorgeous ladies and an innate skill at recutting porn flicks in his head while watching them.
The Lighter Side of Jonni Darkko
Jonni Darkko left Chicago a decade and a half ago, armed with his trained photographer's eye, a taste for gorgeous ladies and an innate skill at recutting porn flicks in his head while watching them.
Magazine Website Traffic Surging
While some online market segments are in decline, a new report shows that consumer magazine websites are growing at a rate more than double that of the overall growth of the Internet.
CAN-SPAM Case Implications
It took three years for the case to get through trial, but only three hours for a Seattle jury to decide Impulse Media Group Inc. was not responsible for the actions of affiliates who unrepentantly spammed consumers in violation of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003.
Mortgage Lender Shutters Business, Launches Adult Website
In another sign of hard times for the housing market, a mortgage lender has closed his mortgage company and is launching a new adult website called TheNetGirls.com.
Get a Towel and Dry Off, These Studios are Hot
The world of technology — which seems to govern virtually every other world, in some fashion or another — continues to move forward at a ridiculously rapid pace. A factor that certainly governs the realm of adult, particularly when it comes to all things online.
Law Blogger Questions Legal Rationale Behind Red Rose Prosecution
Attorney, novelist and blogger Julie Hilden has posted a lengthy post in the commentary section on Findlaw.com that sharply criticizes the prosecution of Karen Fletcher, who pleaded guilty in federal court in May to six counts of distributing obscenity online.
Retail Focus: Evolution of the Clamshell
Sex toy manufacturers and retailers are faced with a new challenge as a new demographic of consumers emerges: Produce and sell toys that appeal to the women and couples of Generation X and Y.
Evolution of the Clamshell
Sex toy manufacturers and retailers are faced with a challenge as a new demographic of consumers emerges: Produce and sell toys that appeal to the women and couples of Generation X and Y.
Here's How 5 Directors Burn Up the Adult Charts
It’s not just sales success that makes a director “hot” in this business. Sure, the metrics are important — units sold, minutes streamed, lick-throughs counted — but the definition of “hot” is much broader than a column of net earnings in a corporate Excel document. With seemingly few new patches of unexplored grass under the sex industry’s sun, how can sex be made interesting, much less scintillating? It comes down to the limitless nature of the human imagination, the human form and personality. Vivid Entertainment’s hot director B. Skow explicitly mentions the “endless supply of beauty” that is making his “Brand New Faces” series a big hit. The influx of new babes certainly takes care of much of the foregoing equation.
ICANN Proposes Disputed Domain Auction
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced its plans to settle disputes over new generic top level domains (gTLDs) by auctioning the name to the highest bidder.
Image Search Engine Fights Copyright Infringement
Copyright holders have another tool in their infringement-fighting arsenal, courtesy of a new image search engine called TinEye — but adult content rights holders need not apply.
Your Opinion: Legal Issues
Recently, XBIZ World Magazine asked several industry players "What do you think is the most important legal issue facing the industry this year?" Here's what they had to say:
Facing the Issues
Recently, XBIZ World Magazine asked several industry players "What do you think is the most important legal issue facing the industry this year?" Here's what they had to say:
Producers, The Buck Starts Here
Come awards night, the players and directors troop up to the stage to collect their honors for scenes and titles, but when the big brass is handed out for the two awards that matter most — Best Video and Best-selling Video — it’s the producer who gets the golden handshake, and with good reason.
Chris Streams: Working Class Biker
For a director who has lifted his acting and directing credits well into three digits in pretty short order, Chris Streams hasn’t given many interviews. Once he gets going, though, it is clear that he can talk forever about this business, about filmmaking, about art and commerce and the sweet spot that exists somewhere in there for good porn.
Is the Internet Altering Your Brain?
As humans are relying more on Internet searches and less on their own memories, researchers are documenting a rapid evolution in our thought processes.
Crazy World of Jack the Zipper
There is a mummified French clown in a glass sarcophagus out back at the California Institute of Abnormalarts. His name is Gilles Chatouilleu and he died in 1912, but he still has his makeup on. He is tiny, shrunken. It seems like he would get cold on winter nights in the backyard like that, but Jack the Zipper said he loves Gilles.
Increasing Website Performance
In this article we'll examine the essential steps needed to correct your website structure for proper performance, along with other critical elements that all websites should have in place.