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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?”
The State of Online Adult
With the rapid evolution of the adult entertainment business, it makes sense to take a close look at your business and marketing plan at least every six months to ensure that your company is on track — maximizing opportunities and profits, while mitigating any potential shortcomings or threats to your operational environment. To assist this process, we are going to take a brief overview of the mid-year landscape and examine some of its hot-button issues, greatest opportunities and the six months ahead.
Flame On: Social Media
It’s not news that porn stars and the interactive web go together like bread and butter. The step from web cams and community sites like Burning Angel to porn stars using mainstream social media channels like MySpace, blogs, and Twitter was intuitive. But social media’s full power is still being harnessed. Engagement with social media may very well be the thing that is key to fully assimilating porn with mainstream culture. Dana DeArmond, Nina Hartley, and Madison Young are three people who seem to really be on the right track, following the two basic tenets of social media: authenticity and transparency.
Payouts Now 25% Off
If you walk through any shopping mall, you’ll see plenty of store fronts with giant sale signs and discount offers posted in bright colors intended to catch your eye.
XBIZ Welcomes Dan Miller as Managing Editor
XBIZ has tapped veteran adult industry journalist Dan Miller as managing editor of XBIZ Premiere magazine. He brings 17 years of professional journalism experience to XBIZ.
XBIZ Award Winners Tori Black and Sasha Grey Star in 3rd Degree Film’s ‘Tori Black vs. Sasha Grey’
2010 XBIZ performer of the year Tori Black and 2010 XBiz crossover star of the year Sasha Grey appear in 3rd Degree Film’s “Tori Black vs. Sasha Grey.”
They Give Us Fever
We’re always asking what's hot” and “what's not.” Magazine articles typically follow sales figures and focus on the most popular performers and sites as measured by dollars, cents and mouse clicks. But this special focus takes the pulse of adult and looks at the fresh attitudes, new ideas and emerging trends bubbling to the surface of this creative cauldron we call adult entertainment so you, the decision maker, can take your own temperature.
XBIZ.net Members Reunite for 3rd London Gathering
Brian Gray, XBIZ.net London Gathering organizer and Love Bytes’ head of research, summed up last week’s XBIZ.net London Gathering, now in its third edition, in three words: “money, magic and merriment."