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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.
XBIZ Launches Retail Expo & Conference
In association with the premier adult retail chains of North America representing more than 200 retail establishments, XBIZ is proud to announce the launch of XBIZ Retail Expo & Conference, a first-of-its-kind trade event for adult retailers.
XBIZ LA 2011 to Rock Hollywood; Show Dates Announced
XBIZ LA, the event that set a new standard in adult digital media conferences this year, makes its grand return to the lavish Sofitel Hotel Feb. 7-9, with an unparalleled slate of online-centric events culminating with the 2011 XBIZ Awards.
AHF Blasts XBIZ; Duke and Helmy Respond
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation on Friday publicly blasted XBIZ over its decision to reject a paid advertisement espousing its ongoing campaign to require use of condoms in the production of all adult films.
Adult Biz Eyes Twitterverse
The new phenomenon in computing is, of course, mobile computing. Today more potential customers of adult content are found walking around fiddling with their mobile devices than behind computer screens. Emerging out this wireless paradigm appears Twitter.com — nothing unique about Twitter, just a way to broadcast messages to multiple mobile users. Yet what is so unique about HTML and the browser? Nothing at all — aside form the fact that they have become the standard for worldwide information sharing over the Internet.
DVD Makers: DVD Still King
Just when you thought DVDs were cooling off, along comes a company that has built a its business replicating the medium. DVD Makers, Inc., nestled just north of the infamous San Fernando “porn” Valley is betting against the odds and from all indications is on a hot streak. According to Director of Sales and Marketing, Mike Kulich, the company is not only a DVD replication firm but is a full-service facility that also offers full offset printing and promises a fast seven-to-10 day turnaround on movies.
BlueBird’s Still Red Hot
Bluebird Films. Weren’t they the “hot thing” last year? Just how long can a company remain a “newcomer” and a “chart climber with a bullet?”