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Bare Necessities
Dennis Paradise has a bold prediction: By the end of the year, he expects to see big box retailers like grocery and drug stores selling sex toys. That’s right, the shelves at Target and Walmart may soon be getting a little more risqué, thanks in part to the bottom line — but also due to a more comfortable consumer. If the prediction holds true, the adult industry can thank a fastgrowing segment for helping to ease the transition: Companies specializing in personal care items with a sexy twist have helped society grow increasingly more secure with its sexuality.
Trouble With .XXX
In a reversal of position, ICANN has decided to authorize ICM Registry to offer and oversee a new “.XXX” TLD regime. Whatever you may think of ICANN’s decision, for now it’s a reality to be dealt with. So the question becomes whether you, as an owner or operator of adult websites, should participate in this, eh hum, brave new world.
XBIZ.net Santa Barbara Gathering Gets Rave Reviews
California’s first XBIZ.net industry networking event got “big props" for bringing together distinguished members of the adult business community.
Have a Seat, Get Comfy
XBIZ delves deeper into the whole milieu of sofas, swings and super-electric surrogates to say — or ask, rather — exactly what ARE some of these products all about? Which ones are most popular? What folks actually buy this freaky furniture and twisted technology? And, eventually, where and how might one purchase these truly erotic pieces of fornicatingly far-out yet, nonetheless, fully functional, objet d’art?
Wi-Fi - Security First
One of the benefits of modern mobile technology is the ability of many devices to connect to the Internet — wherever and whenever wireless signals are available. From laptops to Smartphones and other devices, users are surfing the web, checking emails, sending and receiving instant messages, monitoring their online bank accounts and more — all while on the road and away from their home or office.
High Jinks, High Profits
From childhood people learn they can rely on jokes and various types of shenanigans to put a smile on their faces. On the retail front, gag items ranging from G-rated classic rubber chickens, snapping gum and squirting products to poop and T-shirts with offensive images or slogans, have long been commonplace fixtures at gift shops — sometimes even constituting their own specialty store.
Using Open Source Databases
As the Internet matures, so will the amount of traffic packets and raw data will also grow. For a small startup, this amount of data is easy to deal with, but as a business expands simply storing endless files on disk just doesn’t cut it. You need software that organizes and protects data — a relational database.
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.