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XBIZ Announces January 2015 Show Dates, Hits the Sunset Strip
XBIZ is pleased to announce plans for the 2015 XBIZ 360 events series — the next generation of adult industry trade events, set to take over the trendy Andaz Hotel, located on Hollywood’s famed Sunset Strip, from Jan. 14-16.
For Luxury Toys Technology is the Name of the Game
When it comes to luxury pleasure products, scoring is addictive — and it’s not just in the bedroom.
Pleasure Products: Beyond Pleasuredome
Virtually every day, Bob Wolf receives an email proposal from a factory asking about going into production on high-end, organic looking silicone toys. But it’s a trend Synergy Erotic will steer clear of.
2014 UKAP Awards Nominees Are Announced
UKAP today announced nominees for the 2014 UKAP Awards set for Friday, Sept. 26., at the London Underground Party, which coincides with XBIZ EU, the international digital media conference.
Asia Adult Expo Announces Dates, New Exhibitors
Asia Adult Expo announced that it will be held Aug. 28-30 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Mobile Trends: Tablets Are Taking Over
Earlier this year, the use of mobile apps overtook PC usage by American consumers for the first time in what signifies a shift in the way that audiences interact with the Internet, and information in general.
Dev Depot: Create a 3D tilted scroll effect with this jQuery plugin
As the capabilities of today’s digital display devices, mobile and otherwise, continue to evolve, many web designers are seeking to keep pace by introducing new processes, as well as a healthy dose of eye-candy, in order to stay ahead of their many competitors, via offering web weary viewers something new.
How Studying a Site’s Traffic Will Help It Grow
If you’ve been running a website for any length of time, you are no doubt familiar with the need to study your stats — either using a server log solution such as AWStats, a hosted third-party service such as Google Analytics, or a self-hosted, open source tool such as PiWik — or even all of the above...
XBIZ EU Show Schedule Announced
XBIZ is pleased to announce the official show schedule for the 2014 XBIZ EU international digital media conference.
Dev Depot: NanoGallery, Next-gen Galleries With a Touch-enabled Jquery Plugin
Offering image gallery creation simplified, NanoGallery is a responsive, lightweight and touch enabled jQuery gallery plugin that pulls its images from remote resources.
Using Content as a Customer Magnet
Adult site owners have faced a perennial debate over which is more important, content or traffic — but it is no longer about which commodity is most valuable, but about using content to generate traffic.
Mobile Traffic: Leading The Market Or Falling Behind?
Mobile traffic continues to generate much better sales rations than desktop traffic, and while the overall volume has not yet equalized, even on a smaller amount of traffic mobile can outperform larger desktop impression acquisitions by a very wide margin.
SEO: The Difference Between Whiners and Winners
In the last year and a half Google has implemented many well-known patches to its algorithm. Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird are now household names for anyone who does even a very minimal amount of SEO work on websites, but Hummingbird was the most recent major change and it was announced almost a year ago on Sept. 26.
Traffic: Finding Tomorrow's Money Today
In a challenging and unsure market like the one that the online adult entertainment sector has become, companies must find opportunities for growth wherever they arise. Just as they do for mainstream businesses and entrepreneurs, emerging markets represent a potential means for adult businesses to generate growth, and a possible salve against the impact of ubiquitous free content and profligate digital piracy.
U.K. Adult Stars Tapped as Official Hosts of XBIZ EU London
London will be swinging like never before as four leading U.K. adult stars mix and mingle with industry executives, entrepreneurs and experts at the highly anticipated XBIZ EU show on Sept. 25-28 at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel.
Dev Depot: Snap.svg, Create Interactive Graphics
An open standard under development since 1999 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) offer a mature XML-based vector image format for easily creating and displaying rich web graphics, which support both simple interactivity and two-dimensional animations.
Q&A With EroAdvertising's Jan Huibers
Jan Huibers, the CEO and founder of global adult advertising network EroAdvertising, knows how to reach his clients — with determined and constant innovation and development of new features, all in order to accommodate changing, fickle and hyper-competitive markets.
The Power of Persistence
While there’s always someone that will tell you that things have never been better for their firm, many companies are continuing to face significant challenges in adapting their business models to the new realities of the online adult entertainment marketplace.
E-Commerce and Adult Video Sales
I’ll never forget the first system through which I performed order fulfillment for adult videos that had been sold online — mostly because it was a ludicrously tedious and inefficient exercise that drove me absolutely nuts. This was long before off-the-shelf e-commerce solutions were available, and for that matter, long before most people had used the Internet at all, much less used it to make a purchase of some kind.
Dev Depot: MatchHeight, Make the Height of all Selected Elements Equal
It seems like a simple enough task, but it is one that has long frustrated web designers: creating a matrix of same sized elements, each (perhaps) containing a different amount of content, so that this array appears “even” and symmetrical.