NEWS
Below are a number of extracts from recent industry related news articles.
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.

iPhone Pulse: Bridging the Gap
With all of the options unfolding in the mobile marketplace, adult entrepreneurs are seeking answers to the basic question of what type of mobile presence they should be investing in developing — both for today’s market realities and beyond.

Google Goggles
Perhaps the most interesting (and now, least developed) search innovation poised to hit the market is Google Goggles (www.google.com/mobile/goggles/), a visual search application for Android phones.

Apache Exploit Revealed
A major benefit of using Open Source software is that extensive and vocal user communities and analytics groups tend to form around the most popular applications — including around the sweetheart of adult (and mainstream) webhosting, the Apache HTTP Server.

TeamViewer Offers Remote Workgroup Access
For a wide variety of online operators, having the ability to remotely access personal or client computers and provide support over the Internet is a vital necessity.

MS Warns of IE/XP Server Exploit
A speaker at the recent Blackhat DC security conference, Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina of Core Security Technologies, demonstrated a previously undocumented method of remotely turning a Windows XP-based computer into a web server.

GoalEnforcer Hyperfocus
The time of successfully operating a profitable adult entertainment business "by the seat of your pants" is long over, with today's industry entrepreneurs relying on a wide range of tools and techniques for planning and managing their companies.

MS Courier: Beyond the Tablet
Production concepts revealing Microsoft's response to archrival Apple's iPad tablet, and Amazon's Kindle — known as "Courier" — have begun showing up on the Internet.

WP-Task-Manager
Far beyond being a mere blogging platform, the ubiquitous WordPress powers a wide range of adult entertainment websites.