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Attack of the Pod Porn: Part 2!
Source: www.cozyfrog.com
Part one of this two-part series is where I explained to you the emergence of handheld communication devices such as the iPod, the PSP and the cellphone. I told you that these gadgets are as powerful today as were the desktop and laptop computers of recent history. I gave you the numbers on just how many cellphones; iPods and PSPs have been sold to the masses.
In this second portion of the article I am going to show you more reasons why adult webmasters need to get in the mobile game pronto. The market already exists but you still have the opportunity to promote something hot before it becomes just another over-saturated niche. I'll also show you sites and sponsors that are currently offering affiliate programs for mobile porn.
Before I go on, let me make one thing clear, this piece is written with American webmasters in mind. I love my country but I recognize our arrogance. Adult webmasters in the US tend to believe that they operate on the edge of technology. While I will not deny that US porn money is still very desirable to Internet pornographers everywhere, I would be foolish and wrong to ignore that other countries are kicking our ass when it comes to mobile communications.
Take the Japanese. Americans bemoan the cellphone's dominance in modern society but the Japanese are so in love with these little pocket wonders they have a term for it: Keitai Culture - meaning "mobile phone culture".
Folks in Japan do practically everything with Keitai. Text messaging, television viewing, emailing, web browsing, music downloading, music playing. In fact, the Japanese think nothing of paying for things by cellphone because they do it all the time.
Ironically, the Japanese are much more civil about mobile phones than Americans are. You won't find a Japanese person yapping on the bus with a cellphone. Silently playing a game or texting a lover, yes, but disturbing the peace on a train, never.
The point being is that mobile communications have become the be-all, end-all in almost every developed nation except the United States. The point being is that the porn and the sex are already on the wire, coming in loud and clear. Americans being slow on the uptake is a reality you can work to your advantage.
Creating porn for iPods, PSPs and cellphone is easier than ever. It's all about formatting video and content so that it can be read on these devices. WAP files are fairly outdated but they're still in use and you'll definitely need to familiarize yourself with XML. As for video, the iPod is all about MPEG 4, and H.264 video. The PSP understands UMD (Universal Media Disc). Cellphone makers are making items that will be able to process the above-mentioned formats as well as FLASH and pretty much any audio/video format that comes down the pike. As an adult content producer, you would be smart if you started to offer video clips and images for handheld communications.
Now for a bit of rain on this parade of love for Pod Porn.
Nielson conducted its first-ever survey of iPod users this last October. When it comes to iPod users and video, the numbers claim that the hype about armies of Pod-zombies, glued to their little screens is exaggerated.
According to Nielson, only one percent of users are watching videos on an iPod. Nielson estimates that of all the iPod owners out there, just 15.8 % have ever loaded a video onto their units. Nielson does admit that further study is needed and my guess is that adult content isn't part of the research because Nielson is basing its findings on downloads directly from iTunes.
At this point in time, it's impossible to say that video usage won't explode in the future. Even cellphone users aren't living up to the expectations of marketers and providers. The folks at techie site ARS Technica put the blame squarely on screen size and battery life.
However, Garner Media predicts that there will be 1.1 billion cellphones sold in 2007. Most of those new cellphones will have video/viewing capability. As an adult webmaster, you remember how well our industry performed when the Internet was new. I predict that as long as we keep the content easy, short and sweet, we'll make lots of money - at least for now.
Exxxoitca Miami in Review
Source: www.eyeonadult.com
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As I understand it, Exxxotica Miami (Beach) has just finished up its sophomore effort. I didn't attend last year, but heard good things so with a little help, I managed to make it down. This was also the first time I've ever visited South Beach.
The convention itself is small and almost completely targeted at consumers. One only saw a tiny bit of business-to-business stuff going on. Truth be told, it was pretty refreshing. See, when you're at the AVN show in Vegas or Venus in Berlin, you always feel like your doing business even when you're just chatting with a fan. In Miami, however, while I got that feeling occasionally (especially if I found myself trying to pull some kind of hard sell, which I hate doing) most of the time I felt pretty relaxed and even felt like a fan again myself.
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One of the best things about this show is the sheer amount of women that show up. Granted, most of these ladies are part of a couple (which I think is just as cool) but there were also lots of young women hanging prowling about in small packs.
This is encouraging.
There were quite a few stars around, particularly at the Genesis Magazine booth. Adam Eve's contract girls, Carmen Luvana and Ava Rose were around, along with Taylor Wane, Hillary Scott, Sunny Lane, and others who all set up shop in the Genesis booth. Wicked's girls were there in force as was Jenna Jameson, Tera Patrick, and Joanna Angel. Needless to say, the lines to snag an autograph or photo of Jenna or Tera were extremely long. Tera, well, she's Tera. She looked great as usual, worked long hours, and always did her best to keep smiling; though it was pretty transparent at times (at least to this observer) that she'd rather be doing something else. Jenna seemed to work pretty long hours as well. Unfortunately, the photos you've seen of her lately don't lie. She does appear to be quite underweight be it due to stress from her separation from Jay Grdina or the rumored botched vaginaplasty, or some manner of eating disorder. However, given the length of her lines, one could deduce that her name means more than her appearance at this point.
South Beach is indeed an interesting place. During the day, it is a very normal beach environment. Normal people, beautiful people, wannabe beautiful people, old folks, and beached whales all mill about and interact with one another. However, when the sun dives down into Biscayne Bay, the landscape changes entirely.
At night, South Beach becomes a haven for tarted up, slick-glossed zombies of both sexes and all races. While the color, pattern, or cut of the clothing may change slightly from person to person, the virtually soulless, lemming inside the clothes were pretty much all the same. They might as well have walked around with little thought balloons above their heads (like in comics) that say, - Someone told me that if I dressed like this, I'd be cool. Please someone validate me by telling me how my pursuit of vapidity and vanity will one day fill both the holes in my brain and my soul.
There are some bright spots though. Mango's, a wildly touristy but very ''s a raucous mambo type joint with great mojitos and a devil may care attitude. On the opposite side, you have the Deuce Club that Wayne from Miami Ink invited us to. It's one of the oldest bars in South Beach and pretty much a dive. They sold Pabst Blue Ribbon there, if that tells you anything. Granted, it costs $4 a bottle, but they had it nonetheless.
Either way, it was a decent trip all around, though there was a certain lack of discord at this thing. So all in all, I have to say it was pretty boring. No one overdosed, no one really made a fool of him or herself, and frankly, I think that sucks.
Maybe I need to get into a new line of business.
Sanjaya Malakar's sister naked with guitar
Source: www.thesuperficial.com
I don't watch American Idol, but I think I've figured out why Sanjaya still hasn't been voted off. It's because his sister poses naked with guitars. Plus she used to work for Hooters. Ta-daa, science!
Do you have any juicy gossip? Have you heard something we should know? Do you disagree with what I said? Agree with me? I want your comments and feedback on anything -; I will select my favorite comments I receive from you and post them here. samsan@adultrental.com
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