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Written on 1st June 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur has really delved into Microsoft’s new search engine (our thoughts here) this morning. After Googling himself, his next point of call was to test the search engine’s porn capabilities.
After disabling the adult filter (which is only two clicks away with no verification required), Bing’s new video search turns into every teenagers dream…not another click required… see for yourself!
Written on 5th May 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Written on 16th April 2009
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Anne Helmond, hard bloggin' scientist
Klaas Verbeken starts his Pecha Kucha presentation titled “Porn & the future of the web” with the obvious question: Who has downloaded pr0n? The greatest common nominator in mankind is sex, however sex doesn’t sell. 40% of all downloads are porn related. We currently have sharp high-quality HD Video but we want DVD because people don’t want to see all the actual details.
Porn is the drive behind a lot of innovation online such as video conferencing with naked ladies and live chat. However, sometimes technology doesn’t get adapted such as the multi-angle cameras that were only used by the porn industry. There are billions of dollars flowing in and out of the porn industry which led to the development of SSL techology.
The big question is: to pay or not to pay. We are currently not paying and preferring user-generated porn such as YouPorn. We choose for free content. It’s hard to get a monitizing model right.
Consumers of porn are becoming both producers and competitors in the case of Sellsumers where you can sell your sextape. A final example of a technology “invented” by the porn industry (AdultFriendfinder) is IP-to-geo translation. This currently drives the web with Google redirecting all our services to our local domain again.
Long live innovation, long live porn.
Written on 11th February 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
A recent poll has shown that UK teenagers spend on average 87 hours a year watching porn online. The poll, conducted by OnePoll, quizzed over a thousand UK teenagers between the ages of 13 and 15 finding they on average spend over 31 hours surfing the web.
Depressingly, it appears teens are spending over 8 hours a week not only browsing pornography but also cosmestic surgery, emotional support and weight loss sites.
The research was conducted by www.cybersentinel.co.uk, a software company aiming to help parents block harmful websites and help monitor their childrens usage of the web.
Ellie Puddle, Marketing Director of CyberSentinel said: “The alarming thing about this research is that it shows that teenagers are obviously exploring all sorts of topics as a result of modern-day pressures [and] they find it easier to go online to conduct their research than asking mum and dad for advice.”
Breakdown of the average teenager’s time online each week
- Downloading music 1 hour 40 minutes
- YouTube 2 hours 2 minutes
- MSN 3 hours 29 minutes
- Chatrooms 2 hours 5 minutes
- Virtual World sites 1 hour 55 minutes
- Homework/research 3 hours 10 minutes
- Shopping 1 hour 49 minutes
- Auction sites 1 hour 28 minutes
- Cosmetic surgery 1 hour 8 minutes
- Soft porn 1 hour 40 minutes
- Dieting/weight loss 1 hour 35 minutes
- Family planning/pregnancy 1 hour 32 minutes
- NHS Direct/Health 1 hour 22 minutes
- Samaritans 1 hour 1 minute
- Dating 1 hour 15 minutes
- Social networking 3 hours 47 minutes
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Written on 5th November 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
“It’s Official” , triumphs the Mozilla blog, “Congratulations to the Mozilla community for reaching this historic milestone”. According to Net Applications, Firefox surpassed 20% worldwide market share. During the week of October 5th, 20 percent of Internet users browsed with the open source browser.
Watch your back Safari
The Firefox browser might steal some market share from Safari, as Apple’s browser will soon lose its greatest advantage for male Mac users. As I mentioned earlier, a friend of mine once told me he uses Safari’s stealth mode for his adult needs. Well, it seems like he can stay within the Firefox environment for that now.
Firefox released a beta version of a Private Browsing feature. Users of Minefield, Mozilla’s test area for new browser innovations, can now activate the “porn mode”. When toggled, it deletes your Web history, user names, passwords, searches, and cookies and bins as soon as you close the window, “effectively making it appear that the session never existed” – writes Josh Lowensohn from Webware.
Written on 3rd November 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
According to a new survey, the number of people who use the Internet to search for porn is down by 50%. In a related story, the number of people who lie when responding to surveys is up by 50%.
- Conan O’Brien
Maybe you have seen the ASCII art generated video clip for AC/DC recently? It is hot on Youtube. Check it out:
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Written on 8th October 2008
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
This must be the funniest porn video I have ever seen:
Turn up the volume and go full-screen! Thanks to Dutchcowboys.
Written on 31st July 2008
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Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer
Online piracy is also an issue for the adult video industry, in case you were wondering. Jason Tucker, head of The PAK Group, a new anti-piracy company dedicated to adult content, and president of the content production company Falcon Foto, recently told the industry web site XBIZ (NSFW) that lawsuits against individuals are no longer on the top of their list in the fight against piracy, because they “require ridiculous amounts of resources” yet don’t accomplish much.
Tucker said they’re more likely to start concentrating on adult video sharing sites, or as Tucker puts it: “companies creating locations where the exploitation of stolen works is encouraged”.
He told XBiz:
“We are close to filing a suit against a major tube site, and we will follow that up with a lot more. No one is immune. The big problem I see right now is not outsiders doing this; rather, it is people who purport to be contributing members in our industry. As a result, we know who is doing this, we know where they are, we know where they process transactions, we know where they bank, we know where they host and we know where they live. This means when we come for you, we know how to get you.”
Hat tip to NewTeeVee, which offers some more background information.
Written on 28th June 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
What do Polaroid, VHS, and the Internet have in common? They owe a huge part of their success to sex. As Boris once said in the comments on this blog: “Porn is usually the killer app“. He was referring to Qik, the mobile video streaming service that has a lot of porn-related opportunities (The Qik team doesn’t want to take advantage of this though, as they’ll blacklist users who make naughty videos). There’s another company who doesn’t want anything to do with porn, but which WILL profit from it – big time.
Since TIME published an article about the endless porn possibilities the iPhone has – large color AND touch screen, speaker, web access -, Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock has a hard time claiming that Apple will do anything to stop this. But there’s one thing that Bowcock, nor Steve Jobs, can’t control: the users’ browsing adventures. And thus, the solid Safari browser opens the gates to a mobile porn heaven.
Some people get really excited by the thought of a new iPhone and the sex part combined. Not everyone dares to express these fantasies though. Apart from one blogger, Jason Swifter, who wrote “what everyone wants, but is too chicken to say“:
I wish that there was an application that allowed you to undress people by dragging your fingers across the screen and literally dragging it off.
Seems like the iPhone has everything going for its success. It already was a killer app, yet the popularity will multiply now the sex frontier is in sight.
(Via: Bright – Dutch only)
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