Some mainstream ideas simply won’t work in adult. One of them is social bookmarking websites like digg and deli.cio.us where you bookmark useful websites and others can vote on them. Social bookmarking works well in mainstream because there is a separation between users and content. It’s likely that the user who submitted the website is [...]
Continue reading...10. January 2008
Today, we get a new iPhone-only porn website from Screwphone. Will there be enough demand to satisfy a need for iPhone porn? Maybe not. But, hey, if you already shelled out over $400 for a cellphone, you might as well add one more useful feature to the long list. If you want to try it [...]
Continue reading...10. January 2008
The following is an interview with the founder of Screwphone, which is one of the first sites to exclusively feature iPhone porn. We talk about the development of Screwphone and an outlook on the portable porn market. EroEvo: Could you briefly summarize what Screwphone is? Screwphone: Screwphone is an exclusive iPhone/iPod Touch porn video site. Focusing [...]
Continue reading...9. January 2008
With an emphasis on anti-piracy technology, Evotum offers a HD video streaming experience for viewers who want true DVD-quality porn on demand. Evotum’s primary client is Wicked Pictures which uses this HD streaming technology for its paysite. Satisfied with the service, Wicked Pictures CTO Avi Bitton says that Evotum offers a “reliable and cross-platform, on-demand, [...]
Continue reading...9. January 2008
Xbiz just published a feature article on Porn.com with personal comments from Dave (owner) and Don (marketing and relations manager). According to the sources, Porn.com receives over 50,000 hits per day just from type-in traffic. Porn.com’s powerful domain name along with an easy-to-remember brand name puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the company to [...]
Continue reading...9. January 2008
Emergency Porn is a porn recommendation engine that I am proud to feature because it is clean and user-friendly. This is what I envision to be a web 2.0 version of the classic TGPs of the past. When you enter Emergency Porn, you are presented with a 3 x 7 table of high-resolution thumbnails. You can [...]
Continue reading...8. January 2008
When is the last time you’ve seen a porn site that has user experience as a priority rather than spamming the shit out of you for clicks and conversions? As you might expect, these are rare gems in the adult industry. But I am surprised to find such a noble ideal in a porn search [...]
Continue reading...7. January 2008
Sex.com is on our radar as an up-and-coming contender in the adult industry. It’s amazing what a good generic domain name can do for you on the web; makes the $14 million price tag of the domain name almost worth it. Domain names like Sex.com and Porn.com already have a enviable steady stream of visitors [...]
Continue reading...7. January 2008
Here’s another piece of mainstream technology that could serve the adult industry well. Revver is a video sharing website like Youtube. What sets it apart from being a mere Youtube clone are embedded contextual ads that are served on videos while they’re being played. There is an obvious problem with serving regular javascript-based contextual ads like [...]
Continue reading...7. January 2008
PornoTube is using a clever mouse-over trick to persuade more viewers to click through to their sponsor sites. As internet users become more web-savvy, they tend to click much less on banners. That’s why embedded affiliate text links on porn blogs convert much better than header or sidebar banners. Pornotube is adapting to the evolving [...]
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11. January 2008
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