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News Bytes Thursday, November 30th 2006, 12:10pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. 36,000 British Airways passengers alerted over radiation. News Article Thursday, November 30th 2006, 12:08pm EST Federal case may redefine child porn. Jeff Pierson is a photographer whose action shots of hopped-up American autos laying waste to the asphalt at Alabama dragways have appeared in racing magazines and commercial advertisements. Pierson's Web site boasted he has the "most wonderful wife in the world and two fantastic daughters." And until recently, he ran a business called Beautiful Super Models that charged $175 for portraits of aspiring models under 18. In a federal indictment announced this week, the U.S. Department of Justice accused Pierson, 43, of being a child pornographer--even though even prosecutors acknowledge there's no evidence he has ever taken a single photograph of an unclothed minor. Rather, they argue, his models struck poses that were illegally provocative. "The images charged are not legitimate child modeling, but rather lascivious poses one would expect to see in an adult magazine," Alice Martin, U.S. attorney for the northern district of Alabama, said in a statement. Search Engines Thursday, November 30th 2006, 12:06pm EST Hey, I have been searching around forums and such, trying to get an answer and can't seem to find one. What determines whether pages get sent to the supplemental or omitted results section of Google? The closest info I could find is that means that there is duplicate content. However, on my reciprocal links pages, there is no unique content as I'm sure those links are posted on many hundreds of other websites duplicated across the web. What can I do to get my currently "omitted results" pages into the main index section of Google? Thanks in advance for your help. Answer: This is a great question and one that, astonishingly, I have never been asked which made it even more fun to answer. First, however, I want to provide a little background for readers that may not be familiar with this topic. News Article Thursday, November 30th 2006, 12:06pm EST Google has decided to close its answers service after four years in operation. From the end of this week it will no longer respond to questions submitted to the Google Answers site. The project started as a “rough idea” by Google founder Larry Page. A team of more than 800 people regularly contributed on a diverse range of topics requested by users who would set a price between $2 and $200 for a correct answer. Contributors would then pick up 75 per cent of the fee. Questions submitted ranged from whether animal bone ash is used as a filtering process in sugar (yes), to can you get a suntan or sunburn through glass? (yes, but it takes longer apparently). Explaining the decision to close the Google Answers site a statement on the official Google blog said: “Google is a company fuelled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time - and sometimes it means reconsidering our goals for a product.” It said: “Google Answers was a great experiment which provided us with a lot of material for developing future products to serve our users. Affiliate Programs Thursday, November 30th 2006, 12:04pm EST Google Adwords Success Tips - Vol. 1 When you use Google Adwords and can’t be certain of what keyword matching option you must use, then you can enter all three variations you have in your keywords list. For instance: Art Posters “Art Posters” [Art Posters] After using them for some time you can check the clickthrough rates of the keywords and delete the ineffective keyword combinations. Always use the negative keywords feature. For example if someone uses the search term “free art posters” then you should use the negative keyword –free in the Google appropriate field and in result your keyword “Art Poster” will not be displayed. News Article Thursday, November 30th 2006, 12:03pm EST Appeals Court Upholds Injunction on Illinois Videogame Law. Good news for videogame companies; bad news for moms: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has upheld the U.S. District Court’s December 2005 ruling that an Illinois law banning the sale of sexually explicit videogames to minors is unconstitutional. Though the Illinois law—spearheaded by Gov. Rod Blagojevich—would have categorized certain videogames as being “obscene for minors” and mandated that retailers include a four-inch-square “18” rating on the box, the appeals court countered that the serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value of the games should be taken into consideration when determining their suitability for children. News Article Thursday, November 30th 2006, 12:02pm EST Mobile phone porn sales on the rise. Porn providers are definitely not feeling blue when it comes to mobile phone sales. Rather, they see a red-hot future for their product, based on sales so far and an industry projection. JupiterResearch says that so far this year, the mobile phone porn industry has racked up sales of US$1.4 billion. The research company expects that figure to get up to US$3.3 billion in the next five years.That figure can be adjusted for inflation, of course, but it's primarily due to the expected wide availability of 3G video delivery, which will reach new heights in the next few years. That and the fact that the more people know about stuff like this, the more they'll explore and buy and spread the word. News Article Thursday, November 30th 2006, 12:01pm EST Birmingham studio linked to porn case. The Brookwood photographer accused of providing a Florida Web site with photographs of underage girls in sexually explicit poses has a photography studio in Birmingham. Jill Ellis, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, said Wednesday that she could not discuss whether the photographs Jeff Pierson provided to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.--based Webe Web were of his customers, or even if the customers were aware federal charges had been filed against him. Officials said at least 16 of the girls on the Web site were from Alabama. Business Thursday, November 30th 2006, 12:00pm EST Grassroots Convergence: The Changing Web. The first two weeks of November saw me traveling from the west coast to New York, and back to the coast before heading down to Las Vegas. I had the privilege of attending two of the most important annual search and Internet marketing conferences, ad:Tech NYC and Pubcon Las Vegas. As a writer in this space, my goal was to try to speak with as many people as possible in order to figure out where the industry is going in the coming years. Road-weary and exhausted as I am, I feel enlightened and exhilarated. The state of search marketing is stronger than ever. It is however, going to change radically in the coming year.The first thing webmasters need to understand is how Web2.0 has raised the intensity of information sharing. The concept of using mass or micro-interest communities to basically inform themselves, has transformed the businesses of the smartest search marketers. News Article Thursday, November 30th 2006, 11:59am EST While she's happy to continuously shower for the nation, Myleene won't get her whoppers out for Playboy. Twice they tried to lure her with the promise of £500,000, but both times the Klassy lady has calmly refused, it was revealed this week. And no doubt they'll be thrusting even bigger wads of cash in her face when she finally emerges from the jungle shower. Not on your Nelly. But she's not the first curvy celeb to turn down big bucks from the Heff and Playboy either.  News Article Thursday, November 30th 2006, 11:58am EST Supreme Court mulls over patent law. Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices heard arguments concerning a basic tenet of patent law. In addition to being new, any invention for patent must be deemed "nonobvious" over what is already known, i.e., the innovation must represent some technological advance -- even if slight. The case KSR v. Teleflex involves an innovation in automotive technology marketed by the patentee (Teleflex) to Ford and allegedly infringed by KSR. The crux of the arguments on appeal, however, is the legitimacy of a legal test for obviousness articulated by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the one appellate court designed to hear all patent appeals. Another important issue is whether that test comports with the prior case law or precedent of the Supreme Court. Underlying the case are the growing tensions over the patent system. The Supreme Court has taken on numerous patent-related cases in the last year, and the patent bar expects some changes -- albeit none drastic -- from the Court. In KSR, it is likely that the Supreme Court will reverse the Federal Circuit, sending the case back to the trial court for further findings. News Bytes Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 12:13pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. US Bans Sale of IPods, Plasma TVs to North Korea. Traffic Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 12:11pm EST Linking Strategies: To Buy or Not to Buy. Buying text links for your website is a highly controversial subject online. Like it or not, approve of the practice or disapprove, it does exist and there are many website owners who are doing it. I'm not going to debate the issue one way or the other; just shed some light on what some consider a "gray subject." So why would you want or need to buy a text link on another website? It all goes back to "link popularity." Search engines look at how many other sites are linking to yours when deciding on your ranking. Granted, this is just one criterion, but nevertheless an important one to pay attention to. News Article Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 12:11pm EST Help, My Script Isn't Working! Here's a list of tips and tricks to consult at two a.m. when you're trying to put your site to bed and that d*mn script just won't work. 1. Make a note of the error message, and type it in Google. Leave out your unique paths and file names. Someone else has had the same problem, and some nice person will have posted a solution. 2. If it's a server error, repeat what caused the error. Go quickly to the error log on your web hosting control panel. Any clues there? 3. Read the README file. Have it open on-screen when you're setting up the script. News Article Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 12:10pm EST Kevin Federline has affair with porn star. Kevin Federline is alleged to have been having an affair with a porn star for a month before wife Britney Spears filed for divorce. The wannabe rapper met "exotic dancer" and former X-rated actress Kendra Jade in Las Vegas in December 2005, while Britney was visiting her family in Kentwood, Louisiana, and the two stayed in touch. The pair reportedly started their affair in October 2006. News Article Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 12:09pm EST Web 2.0: Ingredients For A Site Makeover. Web 2.0, The Long Tail, social networking, tagging, Ajax -- so many new catch phrases, but so little time to understand their value. Yet you ignore the new lingo at your own peril; enterprises that put up plain-Jane Web sites today risk turning away the more discerning browsing customer. Consider that it just might be time to do a Web site makeover. However, matching your needs with the right Web 2.0 developer isn't an easy task. The problem is that nowadays, just putting up a page of links and a couple of images isn't engaging enough to attract visitors to your little spot of cyberspace. "Google has lifted expectations for Web applications," said Bob Matsuoka, the CTO of RunTime Technologies, a Web tools and software company. Today's sites need more interaction and have more complexity. Ajax -- or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML -- "is the 'new new thing' and I'm sure it will be used unnecessarily in a lot of instances until the hype dies down," said George Olsen, the principal of Interaction by Design, a user-experience, design, and consulting firm, with his tongue firmly in cheek. Site Development Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 12:08pm EST We have all heard of HTML. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. What is a hypertext markup language, you ask? It is a language for specifying how certain text should appear. When you design a web page, you want certain content or text to be displayed in a specific way. You may want some text to appear in bold or italics, while other text you may want to display larger or in color. HTML is not the only type of markup language. There are markup languages that apply to other types of applications, such as word processing or other software applications. However, HTML was by far the most important markup language ever created, as it became the standard for displaying information on what is now known as the world wide web, or internet. News Article Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 12:07pm EST We're a very small company with an 11 year website history, with web development resources somewhere between quite miniscule and non-existent. Nonetheless, SEO has been a keen focus of awareness since before it was called that, and up until that infamous "Florida" event 3 or so years ago, we did very well in the SERPs. Over the years a number of people have worked on the code comprising our site, and while there is nothing egregiously, obviously wrong with our content, no one knows if now we're being penalized for something 'lurking' in our code that may be left over from yesteryear and never found and rooted out. The biggest worry and source of disagreement seems to involve "duplicate content". Two questions: (1) is there a fast way to ensure elimination of all code that could be found objectionable to major SE 'anti-spam' filtering? and, (2) is there any way to learn how the SE algorithms define "duplicate content", e.g., is it a matter of word-for-word duplicity, or would a site get penalized even for re-worded content that had the same general meaning -- appearing on more than one page? News Article Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 12:06pm EST Library Turns Off All Internet Access To Avoid Porn. The Mt. Clemens Public Library has shut down Internet access on the three computers in the adult section, because people are looking up porn."We have children and young families who are in the library, and I don't feel that it's appropriate," library director Donald Worrell said . "It's very unfortunate that people who want to use the computers legitimately have to suffer." He added that library computers have filters, but the law requires them to be turned off if a patron over 18 requests. Search Engines Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 12:05pm EST Are Search Engine Rankings That Important? What's more important, conversion or rankings? On one side you'll get the argument that if you achieve top rankings (which drives traffic) but you cannot convert your visitors substantially, your rankings are then wasted. On the other side you’ll hear that if you build your site and are able to generate a substantial conversion rate, but don't attain top positions in the rankings (and therefore obtain less traffic), then you won't have anybody to convert. It's the modern chicken or the egg question as it pertains to marketing online. Assuming even for a second that you had to sacrifice one for the other, which should you choose?  News Article Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 12:04pm EST Spyware Operators Settle with FTC. Two notorious spyware operators settled charges last week with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Both John Robert Martinson, the principal owner of Mailwiper, and Odysseus Marketing and its principal, Walter Rines, drew the FTC's attention for their secret downloads lurking behind free downloads of screensavers, anti-spyware and peer-to-peer (P2P) software. The settlement imposes a $1.86 million fine on Martinson and Mailwiper, although all but $40,000 is suspended because of their inability to pay. Odysseus and Rines agreed to pay a $1.75 million fine with only $10,000 due because of their financial situation. Should the court find that any of the defendants misrepresented their financial condition, the entire fine will become due. News Article Wednesday, November 29th 2006, 12:02pm EST Bot spreads through anti-virus, Windows flaws. University security experts warned administrators on Monday that a bot program has started to spread by exploiting five patched Microsoft vulnerabilities and a six-month-old flaw in Symantec's anti-virus software. The bot program, identified as W32.Spybot.ACYR by Symantec, has compromised a small number of systems at various universities, including about 30 systems at the University of Arkansas and another 150 systems at the University of New South Wales in Australia. The spread of the bot software became noticed because of an inordinate amount of traffic to the network port number used by Symantec's software - both the Internet Storm Centre and the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (REN-ISAC) reported spikes in traffic to port 2967. While network data from the ISC and the REN-ISAC suggests that more than a 1,000 systems may have been compromised, an accurate tally was not immediately available. News Bytes Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 11:56am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Britain Tracing Poison That Killed Spy. News Article Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 11:55am EST Li: China's anti-porn law outdated. Prominent Chinese sociologist on sex issues Li Yinhe has sparked another debate by arguing that the life sentence given to the man who created China's largest pornographic website is unfair. She argued that the law against producing, selling and propagating obscene products should be overthrown. The Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court in north China sentenced Chen Hui on November 22 for creating Qingseliuyuetian, which translates roughly as "Pornographic Summer". They also ordered that 100,000 yuan, or 12,500 US dollars, be confiscated from him. Sociologist Li Yinhe called China's anti-pornography law outdated in a blog entry on November 23, arguing that China is the only modern society in the world with such a law. She also claimed the law conflicts with the national constitution, which entitles all Chinese citizens to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Marketing Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 11:54am EST Why Aren't You Marketing With Testimonials? You mean you really aren't? Lots of experts have noticed that there are too few e-commerce sites using testimonials. In the brick-and-mortar world, testimonials have been used for decades. They provide a very low-cost and effective tool for adding credibility to your promotional message. And credibility is what you need in order to convert prospects to sales. The majority of consumers say that knowing and trusting the sender is the key factor in determining whether they would open an email. With email open rates declining, trust becomes more and important in getting your message across effectively. News Article Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 11:53am EST Britney Spears Full Private Parts Reveal. Just one day after giving the paparazzi a sneak peak at her private parts, pop diva Britney Spears has gone for a full reveal. The Toxic singer gave the world a full look while out on the town with Simple Life Star Paris Hilton. At one point, during Britney Spears's vagina reveal Paris Hilton was seen trying to hide it from the paparazzi. As Rosie said on the View, Britney Spears hanging with Paris Hilton is just sad. The vagina reveal is big departure for Britney Spears , who normally goes for sexy without trash. The shocking and revealing images are a porn collectors dream. Business Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 11:51am EST Monitoring Competitor Changes and Collecting Business Data. RSS feeds have made it easy to monitor and track news stories, blog posts and certain websites for important updates. But not every site has an RSS feed that you can track, nor does every change made constitute an RSS update. In the world of online marketing, tracking changes to competitor, client and industry related websites can not only help you stay current on important issues, but can also help you gather additional competitive intelligence data simply and easily. RSS is great, but it’s not everywhere. For tracking what you can't with RSS, we have developed the CodeMonitor Page Tracking tool. News Article Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 11:50am EST Women may respond to porn, but not in a way that counts. Last month, researchers at McGill University in Canada reconfirmed what we'll call the porn paradox: When hooked up to instruments measuring sexual arousal, men and women reacted with equal speed when watching pornographic films.This raises several questions, including why women are so much less likely than men to consider viewing porn a valuable use of our time. But the type of material used in the study also raises broader questions about the effects of porn on both sexes.Irv Binik, who led the research, said he used special sex films borrowed from the Kinsey Institute in Indiana. One was predetermined to be arousing to men, another to women, though Binik says they both looked the same to him. Both showed heterosexual couplings. Why do any of us find it arousing to watch films of other people having sex? These people are obviously busy. They're not inviting you to join them. For men at least, British zoologist Robin Baker has an interesting hypothesis: The pornography industry owes its billions to an ancient animal instinct still seen in rats and monkeys: If a male of one of those species runs across a pair mating, the onlooker will not only become aroused at the sight but will move sperm into the urethra. Which means, as Baker puts it, "he's loaded and ready to fire." News Article Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 11:49am EST Spam Volumes Continue to Soar. Spam is reaching unprecedented levels according to a survey released earlier this month by Internet security vendor Postini. The firm reported a 59 percent increase in spam from September to November, when it processed nearly 70 billion e-mail connections. Unwanted e-mail has now reached a whopping 91 percent of all e-mail, it said. By most measures, spam has been increasing steadily. Postini, for instance, noted that daily volumes rose by 120 percent over the last 12 months. Still, a 59 percent spike over a three-month period is significant, although Postini also noted that e-mail traffic in general rose during the same time period, registering 10 million more connections in October, compared to September. "Spammers are increasingly aggressive and sophisticated in their techniques, and protection from spam has become a front-burner issue again," said Daniel Druker, executive vice president of marketing at Postini. News Article Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 11:49am EST Moniker Teams with Internext for Live Domain Auction. Internext and domain registrar Moniker have announced a partnership to host the first-ever, live adult domain auction at Internext Las Vegas. The event is scheduled for 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the last day of the three-day show on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2007.  Business Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 11:48am EST Grassroots Convergence: The Changing Web. The first two weeks of November saw me traveling from the west coast to New York, and back to the coast before heading down to Las Vegas. I had the privilege of attending two of the most important annual search and Internet marketing conferences, ad:Tech NYC and Pubcon Las Vegas. As a writer in this space, my goal was to try to speak with as many people as possible in order to figure out where the industry is going in the coming years. Road-weary and exhausted as I am, I feel enlightened and exhilarated. The state of search marketing is stronger than ever. It is however, going to change radically in the coming year. News Article Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 11:46am EST Google flaw adds phishing hole to Web sites. A security flaw in Google's search appliances could expose Web sites that use the products to information-stealing phishing attacks, experts warned Monday. The Google Search Appliance and Google Mini are used by organizations including banks and universities to add search features to Web sites. A flaw in the way the systems handle certain characters makes it possible to craft a Web link that looks like it points to a trusted site, but when clicked serves up content from a third, potentially malicious site. "This vulnerability affects a lot of very large Web sites," John Herron, a security expert who maintains the NIST.org site, said in an e-mail. "It basically allows a virtual defacement of a Web site when following a malicious link." News Article Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 11:45am EST Russia and US set up copyright hotline. The US and Russia will set up a copyright hotline so that information about copyright infringement can be swapped between the two nations. The US says that it will train Russia in how to battle copyright theft. These are just two elements of the an emerging agreement between Russia and the US which Russia hopes will pave the way for its entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The US is thought to have blocked Russia's entry on several grounds, one of which was its record on copyright abuse. Russia's copyright protection laws are weaker than those in the US and many European countries, as evidenced by the fact that controversial music website Allofmp3.com claims to operate legally in Russia but would be shut down by now in many other countries. News Bytes Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:13pm EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. UK Investigating Russian Spy Death. News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:12pm EST EU Says More Than Half E-Mails Are Spam. Unsolicited e-mails continue to plague Europeans and account for between 50 and 80 percent of all messages sent to mail inboxes, the European Commission said Monday. EU Media Commissioner Viviane Reding called on EU governments to step up their fight against spam, spyware and other illegal online activities and implement EU rules to improve Internet safety. An EU report found that only two EU nations _ the Netherlands and Finland _ were making inroads in enforcing the 2002 law to crack down on spam. "Spam is still ... making up to between 50 and 80 percent of the mails that we are receiving in Europe and two-thirds of that is coming from outside the European Union," said EU spokesman Martin Selmayr. Selmayr said Dutch authorities were able to reduce spam by 85 percent by using fines to get businesses to fall in line with the EU rule. The Dutch telecommunications watchdog OPTA slapped euro60,000 ($78,500) in fines on three companies late last year for sending spam, and the Commission wants other governments to act as well, Reding said. "I'd like to see other countries achieving similar results through more efficient enforcement," she said in a statement. News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:11pm EST Scientists invent male 'pill' that can be taken hours before sex. British scientists have developed a revolutionary pill that men could take as a one-off contraceptive just before a date.The tablet would prevent a man from being able to impregnate a woman, but within a few hours his fertility would return to normal. News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:10pm EST Rise in porn site viewers forces library to pull Internet access. Internet access for the public at the Mount Clemens Public Library has been revoked because of an increase in the number of people looking at sexually explicit material. Advertisement The plug was pulled on the computers earlier this month after employees noticed a "large increase" in visitors using the free Internet service to access what the library termed obscene material in violation of library policies."There seemed to be a sudden increase in that kind of activity, and it was really bothering me. I thought something needed to be done," said library Director Donald E. Worrell Jr. Library staffers acknowledge there have been complaints from people who want to use the Internet terminals for legitimate reasons, but seemed to understand the rationale once it was explained. Traffic Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:09pm EST Hanging Ten on the Next Big Net-Wave: Social Search. The latest frontier in search engine technology is social search. Born out of the social networking boom, social search will attempt to humanize search results thereby providing users with consumer driven answers to their queries. Considering that 50% of queries go unanswered, social search could be the biggest breakthrough since page ranking. As search giants, Google, Yahoo and MSN continue their fierce battle to become king of the search engines, internet marketers are faced with increasing challenges to dominate in the rankings. As algorithms and methodologies change, savvy entrepreneurs and Madison Avenue continue their heated battle for a coveted Top 10 spot in search engine rankings. News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:08pm EST Do these jeans make my labia look big? There are many things women will do to be accepted by society and feel good about themselves. Makeup and designer clothes don’t even scratch the surface. Women pay hundreds of dollars for shoes that are painful to walk in. That is still not the craziest thing women do to be accepted. Plastic surgery is one of the more drastic things one can do to feel better about herself. Breast augmentation is popular; nose jobs are all over the place (sliding down MJ’s face); liposuction is the easy but costly alternative to regular exercise. When is it too much? Is anyone happy with how she looks? Is plastic surgery really for the person who’s getting it? A fad in the plastic surgery world that bothers me the most is not boob or nose jobs — I even consider lipo occasionally. The one fad that really frightens me about how self-conscious women are of their bodies is labiaplasty. That’s right — this is plastic surgery to make the labia more appealing. News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:07pm EST NJ Porn measure vote expected tonight. The Cherry Hill township council will conduct a public hearing and final vote tonight on an ordinance to create special zones for adult video and sex toy stores. If approved, the measure would permit sexually oriented businesses in three sections of town: Between Interstate 295 and the New Jersey Turnpike near the Woodcrest Shopping Center on Haddonfield-Berlin Road. Along both sides of Old Cuthbert Road between Route 70 and Chapel Avenue. On the west side of Olney Avenue, generally between Keystone Avenue and Esterbrook Lane, in the township's commercial/industrial park.  News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:06pm EST The Swedish Prison and Probation Service wants to put a stop to pornography in the country’s jails, Svenska Dagbladet reports. In September the Prison and Probation Service ordered that all pornographic material be removed from Kronobergshäktet, a detention centre in Stockholm. Previously inmates could purchase pornographic magazines from a mobile kiosk. Prisoners have also been forbidden from putting up pornographic pictures in communal areas. The reasons given for the ban are that it is insulting for female prison officers, and that there has been an increase in the number of suspected sex offenders. Among the internees in Gitta Grönlund’s section at Kronobergshäktet in Stockholm are men suspected of rape and incest. “The fact that suspected sex criminals had access to porn magazines felt very uncomfortable. “It means that with our help they can ‘make themselves horny’ and plan new crimes,” Grönlund told Svenska Dagbladet. The Swedish Prison and Probation Service is considering introducing similar bans in all prisons. News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:05pm EST Xerox seeks self-erasing paper. During the 1970s, researchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center explored a software technique called "garbage collection" used for recycling computer memory. The technique allowed the automatic reuse of blocks of memory that were storing unused programs and data. Today an anthropologist at the center, Brinda Dalal, has become a self-styled "garbologist" to assist in a joint effort with chemists at the Xerox Research Center of Canada to develop self-erasing paper. The goal is to recycle paper documents produced by the Xerox's copiers--potentially an unlimited number of times. News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:04pm EST Copyright extension a no-go: BPI reacts. The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property will recommend the current 50 year copyright term on sound recordings is not extended, according to reports. Though the Review's opinion is not neccessarily binding on the government, it will be a blow to the recording industry which had been lobbying to extend the term to 95 years - the same as in the US. The BBC said late last night that former Financial Times editor Gowers will recommend the current term remains when he delivers his Review next week alongside the Chancellor's pre-budget report. The British Phonographic Institute (BPI), which represents many record labels and related companies, today tried to downplay the significance of the leak. Chairman Peter Jamieson said: "It is really the responses of the Treasury, DTI and DCMS and not the recommendations of an independent report, that we are most interested in. It's in the government's power to ignore such a recommendation and they should do so." Search Engines Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:03pm EST All search engines have their own algorithms to determine the value and, therefore, positioning of websites. While the majority of SEO work tends to concentrate on Google because of the sheer weight of searches they receive it would be foolish to discount or ignore the other major search engines. Yahoo is considered one of the big three along with Google and MSN and by concentrating a little more time and effort on Yahoo optimization it is quite possible to gain a good amount of traffic. With ultra competitive keywords it may actually provide an easier way to generate search traffic than gearing all your efforts solely towards Google. News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:02pm EST Barron's: Google shares set for fall. Google shares, which topped a milestone price of $500 a share last week, are overvalued and poised to fall, just like peers Amazon.com and eBay did, the weekly financial newspaper Barron's reported Sunday. Barron's said Google is overvalued because it trades at 37 times next year's expected earnings and because its growth rate is slowing. It also noted that Google now has the 15th largest market capitalization among U.S.-traded shares, and its price-to-earnings ratio is two to three times higher that of similarly sized companies. Analysts predicted a 33 percent gain in Google's earnings in 2007, versus the 81 percent increase the company is on track to produce this year, Barron's said. News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 12:01pm EST Mobile porn set to explode over next five years. The mobile adult content market is predicted to double in value over the next five years. A study conducted by Juniper Research estimates that the market for pornographic content on mobile devices will increase from current levels of $1.4bn a year to over £3.3bn by 2011. The most lucrative regional market over the next five years is expected to be Europe, with Asia Pacific running a close second. Over the whole 2006 to 2011 period Juniper estimates that mobile adult entertainment services will generate an impressive $14.5bn in revenues, with Europe contributing 39 per cent and Asia Pacific 33 per cent. News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 11:58am EST Korean court rebuffs Microsoft in patents case. Microsoft has taken another slap from the authorities in Korea, after a court decision in a patent dispure raised the prospect of Office being taken off the shelves in the country. According to the Korean Times, the country’s supreme court on Friday upheld patents held by two Korean academics over technology for automatically switching between English and Korean. The academics reckon the Microsoft lifted their language switching technology in Office. They are demanding the offending versions of Office are pulled from the market and are seeking around $75m in damages from the vendor. Microsoft said it was continuing to dispute the patent’s validity. Whether the patents stand or not, Microsoft maintains its software does not infringe the patents. News Article Monday, November 27th 2006, 11:51am EST Brussels declares war on spyware and spam. The European Commission called for stronger action against spammers and spy ware merchants today and said it may bring in further legislation to combat the problem. However, the Commission also said member states could do better in enforcing existing legislation covering illegal online activities.Trumpeting a new “communication” “On Fighting spam, spyware and malicious software”, Viviane Reding, commissioner for information society and media, said that the Dutch had succeeded in reducing domestic spam by 85 per cent. Concluding that other member states weren’t taking the problem seriously enough, she sucked in her cheeks and declared that “I'd like to see other countries achieving similar results through more efficient enforcement. I will revisit this issue again next year to see whether additional legislative measures against spam are required." News Bytes Saturday, November 25th 2006, 11:58am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Who Killed Litvinenko? News Article Saturday, November 25th 2006, 11:57am EST New Trojan Tricks Users with Offer of Free Pornography. Experts at SophosLabs have warned of a new spam campaign that claims to offer free explicit images and videos, in an attempt to trick users into downloading a malicious Trojan horse. According to Sophos, a weblink to the Psyme-DL Trojan is being widely circulated within emails using a variety of subject lines, invariably containing the words 'free' and 'porn'. The emails each contain a single sentence and a link to the malicious file. When clicked on, users are given a list of free content to choose from, while the Trojan attempts to download itself onto their machines. Sophos experts note that Psyme-DL exploits a Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerability, MS06-014, and when the weblink is accessed using Firefox, a message is displayed requesting the user to change browser.  Search Engines Saturday, November 25th 2006, 11:55am EST The search engine world never rests. As online marketing professionals discover new ways to obtain top rankings the algorithms evolve right along side. There are two primary reasons behind the updating of ranking algorithms. To increase the quality and relevancy of the results, and to decrease the many pages of online spam. As the algorithms are updated, new ways to affect the results are discovered, and the algorithm must then be again adjusted. This is a cycle that has been around since the early days of search, and one that won't be going away any time soon. A lot has changed over the years, and the future is sure to also deliver its plethora of surprises, but there are three main factors that will always have some level of impact on your search results. News Article Saturday, November 25th 2006, 11:54am EST ISPs start ‘Project Cleanfeed Canada’ against child porn. Yesterday Canada's largest ISPs, including Bell, Bell Aliant, MTS Allstream, Rogers, Shaw, SaskTel, Telus, and Videotron, announced the launch of Project Cleanfeed Canada in partnership with cybertip.ca. The project will allow the ISPs to block access to hundreds of child pornography sites. The list of sites will be generated by cybertip.ca. Project Cleanfeed, which follows a UK model, is likely to generate several responses, notably concerns about censorship and fears that this could extend to other forms of content. While some skepticism is understandable, it should be noted that cybertip.ca will implement an appeal process for content providers who believe that their content is wrongly blocked (though the list of blocked sites will not be publicly disclosed since it would provide a child pornography directory). More importantly, while some may suggest that this opens the door to other blocking - hate content, defamatory content or copyright infringement to name three - there is a crucial difference with child pornography that should prevent a similar approach. While those forms of content may raise legal issues, in the case of child pornography, it is illegal to even access the content. Traffic Saturday, November 25th 2006, 11:53am EST The Four E’s Of A Successful PCP Advertising Program. The good news: you can setup and manage a pay-per-click (PPC) advertising program on Google, Yahoo! or MSN within minutes. The bad news: you can setup and manage a PPC advertising program within minutes. That means anyone can set up a PPC program, which has led to higher overall cost, lower click-through rates and conversions. There is hope, however. News Article Saturday, November 25th 2006, 11:52am EST Spyware Operators Settles With FTC. Two notorious spyware operators settled charges Tuesday with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Both John Robert Martinson, the principal owner of Mailwiper, and Odysseus Marketing and its principal, Walter Rines, drew the FTC's attention for their secret downloads lurking behind free downloads of screensavers, anti-spyware and peer-to-peer (P2P) software. The settlement imposes a $1.86 million fine on Martinson and Mailwiper, although all but $40,000 is suspended because of their inability to pay. Odysseus and Rines agreed to pay a $1.75 million fine with only $10,000 due because of their financial situation. Should the court find that any of the defendants misrepresented their financial condition, the entire fine will become due. News Article Saturday, November 25th 2006, 11:51am EST Companies making introductions in Second Life are becoming frustrated with its search function, which is preventing residents from finding virtual-world entities of real-life businesses. Second Life, the massive multiplayer online world, allows users to log on through the Internet and create 3-D computer-generated identities. These avatars are then free to explore the world that San Francisco-based Linden Lab has synthetically created. Among the program's many features, residents are able to pull up a search feature to seek out events, destinations or other avatars. Some, however, are unimpressed with the function, believing it is limiting users in a limitless world. News Article Saturday, November 25th 2006, 11:50am EST And you thought phone calls from telemarketers were bad. A woman slammed with creepy come-ons from "sexually deviant men" after someone posted her cell phone number to Craigslist is going to court to track down the culprit behind the sleazy stunt. Someone posing as Concetta Lombardi allegedly placed a personal ad on the popular Web site's "Casual Encounters" board earlier this month, leading to unwelcome calls from men looking to take up her supposed online offer for "nasty hot talk" and "dirty raunchy sex." "I was horrified," said the 53-year-old mother of two. "They were hot and they were ready to go." Site Development Saturday, November 25th 2006, 11:49am EST Is Your Business Website 'Old School'? Many small business owners have a hard time seeing the value of a website redesign. They believe “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” And this is understandable. Unless you are eating, breathing and sleeping technology and staying up to date with the moving target of Internet business, you’re not likely to know intuitively if your site needs a redesign. And as a small business owner, you may be concerned about the up-front costs of a website redesign. But once you understand how a redesign can help you drive traffic to your site, convert more users and even save money, you’ll feel more positive about making the investment in your business. News Article Saturday, November 25th 2006, 11:48am EST Dell Offers Rebate-Free Holidays. 'Tis once again that time of the year, the season for maxing out credit cards and incurring massive debt. As Black Friday quickly approaches, Dell customers will know exactly what they're paying for up front, and not have to deal with all of the convoluted rebate and incentive packages that typically start to appear online and at retailers around this time of year. As part of a larger $100 million investment in its faltering customer service operations, Dell announced that it would be cutting back on its rebate offerings.But wait. Rebates are certainly a pain, but a justifiable one as long as the consumer is saving money in the end, right? No worries there. Dell reps say that in most cases the company will be incorporating those savings into the prices of their laptops, PCs, televisions, and other products the company sells online—although the specific details on those price cuts were not given. News Article Saturday, November 25th 2006, 11:47am EST Tiger's wife sues over porn claim. Tiger Woods' wife has filed a libel lawsuit against an Irish magazine over a satirical article that included fake nude photos of her and claimed she appeared on porn Internet sites. A Dublin law firm acting for Elin Nordegren filed the lawsuit in the Irish High Court on Nov. 16, the court's principal registrar, Ciaran Kelly, confirmed Friday. The article was published in The Dubliner magazine in September when Ireland hosted the Ryder Cup. A headline described the U.S. golfers' wives as "Ryder Cup filth" and the story claimed that Woods' wife "can be found in a variety of sweaty poses on porn sites across the Web." It also insulted the wives of golfers Chad Campbell, David Toms and Jim Furyk. Woods denounced the article on the opening day of Ryder Cup practice. He said he wouldn't tolerate the insults toward his Swedish wife, whom he married in Barbados in 2004. News Bytes Friday, November 24th 2006, 11:22am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Spy Poisoned by Radiation. News Article Friday, November 24th 2006, 11:21am EST You've heard people say that if you wouldn't want your boss, your spouse or your mother to know what you're doing online, you shouldn't be doing it. Or that you should consider what would happen if what you are about to say on the internet appeared on the front page of The New York Times; if that would be bad, keep it to yourself. For that matter, you've probably heard Ben Franklin's quip: "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." It's no secret that nothing is secret anymore. If I learned anything at the Lexi.net: Your Online Identity conference, it's that our internet reputation is as slippery as Astroglide and just as difficult to put back into the bottle if it spills where we least want it. Everything we do online becomes part of our Permanent Record, and all it takes to be exposed is someone who cares enough to dig it up. The conference sessions ranged from the practical (corporate image on a budget) to the theoretical (anonymity and privacy online) to the personal (the Dooce story). Judging from my e-mail, my end-of-the-day talk about sex online inspired some folks to try something new over the weekend. Search Engines Friday, November 24th 2006, 11:20am EST 3 Important Elements of SEO, 4 That are Absolutely Essential. Not everybody is able to implement a full-scale SEO strategy. The reasons for this may vary; time, budget, technological barriers, etc. For those that find yourself limited by what you can do now, here are the essentials of SEO: Quality Content. Let's not confuse this with lots of content. Filling your website with content is a great idea, but its not about the volume of the content but the quality of the it. People get caught up in adding pages and pages of content and end up with lots of pages of useless or repetitive junk. When adding content to your website here are a few questions you need to ask yourself. News Article Friday, November 24th 2006, 11:16am EST Project takes aim at Internet child porn. Canada's national child-exploitation tip line and eight of the country's biggest Internet service providers are banding together to make it more difficult to access child pornography online. Project Cleanfeed Canada was officially launched yesterday, with a mandate to block child-pornography sites hosted on foreign servers. The project is modelled after a similar initiative implemented in the United Kingdom by British Telecom. It is expected to be rolled out in Canada over the next few months. The project is spearheaded by the Canadian Coalition Against Internet Child Exploitation, a group that includes law enforcement agencies, ISPs and federal and provincial governments. News Article Friday, November 24th 2006, 11:13am EST Warning: may contain sex, nudity and endless embarrassment. Does anyone actually admit to looking at pornography on the internet for anything other than research? Around the world, there are probably millions of people furiously researching right now. I did my own - genuine - research this week and I came to a conclusion: do not make a sex tape with your boyfriend. Celebrities are not the only ones having their private moments and private bits involuntarily exposed to internet researchers everywhere. The net is littered with home porn featuring ordinary girls, often ordinary teenagers in ordinary teenage bedrooms, who trusted their boyfriends. News Article Friday, November 24th 2006, 11:11am EST Unpatched Flaw Means Firefox Passwords Can Be Stolen. Security experts Wednesday warned that Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox browser has an unpatched flaw that lets criminals pilfer Web site or account passwords, and said that the tactic has already been used on MySpace to steal log-in information from users of the popular social networking service.Dubbed the "Reverse Cross-Site Request" vulnerability by its discoverer, the vulnerability is in Firefox's password-saving feature. Attackers can exploit the flaw by crafting malicious HTML code that hijacks a username and password from a legitimate site, such as a blog or message forum, then transports the log-in to another site. Users would not notice that the theft had even taken place, said Robert Chapin, who reported the bug to Mozilla earlier this month. News Article Friday, November 24th 2006, 11:10am EST London’s naughtiness bared at ‘Erotica 2206’ extravaganza. Chains, whips, sex toys, erotic art, leather, lubricants, rubber, fetish demonstrations, naughty nurses and Thai transvestites: ladies and gentlemen, welcome to London. So forget stiff upper lips and nix the "No Sex Please, We're British" attitude is being firmly handcuffed in a dungeon this weekend as London gets a taste of the Erotica Show, the world's largest adult lifestyle exhibition. Up to 80,000 people are expected to get an eyeful of the arresting array on show at the Olympia exhibition center From Friday through to Sunday,, targeted at inspiring "free thinking adults" in their love lives. Traffic Friday, November 24th 2006, 11:09am EST Directories are best way to get one way links. Especially for new sites. There are hundreds of directories but there are also a lot of directories out there where submission is worthless. Avoid your site from submitting spammy directories to stay away from devaluation of your site in search engines. There are certain factors that when combines makes a directory a quality directory. Here are a few: News Article Friday, November 24th 2006, 11:06am EST The end of the web as we know it? "The internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services, and on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. "By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the internet has created a platform for innovation, from voice over IP, to 802.11x Wi-Fi, to blogging. All that might never have evolved had central control of the network been required by design." Instead, Cerf fears that versions of current bills will cause "great damage to the internet as we know it". And if US telecoms companies carry on in their present fashion, he says, it is going to end in court. "Telephone companies cannot tell consumers who they can call, and network operators should not dictate what people can do online. We need to revise the FCC ruling eliminating common carriage provisions that created this problem, before we kill the goose that laid the golden egg." News Article Friday, November 24th 2006, 11:05am EST The government policy on internet censorship needs an immediate and sweeping rethink and change. This assumes it has a policy at all, given the current state of efforts to filter and block websites. The current effort to ''filter'' the internet, to use the word of the official censor, does little but add to the foreign perception that Thailand is under strong and constant control of a military government. The zeal of the official censor should alarm everyone whose aim is to establish a government that is accountable for its actions. Until the Sept 19 military coup, internet censors built power and ability. The Thaksin Shinawatra government occasionally tried to turn censorship into virtue by claiming it was all done on behalf of children. This is the familiar claim of all censors of course _ that they selflessly protect victims. But predictably, internet censorship under Mr Thaksin immediately turned from an anti-pornography crusade into a political act. Today, pornography is more freely accessible on the Thailand internet than ever. Censorship, meanwhile, has expanded into a secret bureaucracy which operates out of unknown offices. Censors provide neither explanation, warning nor appeal. They aim more and more at websites which are neither obscene nor a threat to children. News Article Friday, November 24th 2006, 11:04am EST Revising "The Anime Encyclopedia". Helen McCarthy has been a fan of anime for over 20 years, starting with the first British anime fanzine in the 1980's and the first continuing UK anime newsletter in 1990. Since then, she has been a pivotal figure on the British anime scene, running the first anime conventions in the United Kingdom, producing several English language anime dubs, and writing incessantly on anime for magazines, newsletters, and books. It was at McCarthy's Anime UK magazine that Jonathan Clements published his first commercial writings on anime and manga. A student of Chinese and Japanese language, Clements has been a prolific translator and author, with over 100 manga and anime translations standing next to a respected run on the famous Judge Dredd comic magazine and over a dozen books. Together, Clements and McCarthy wrote The Erotic Anime Movie Guide in 1999, and followed that up with The Anime Encyclopedia in 2001, compiling information about thousands of Japanese anime dating back to 1917. The two recently reunited to revise and expand The Anime Encyclopedia from nearly 600 pages to over 900. Toon Zone News caught up with the two via e-mail to talk about the new edition. Announcement Thursday, November 23rd 2006, 11:45am EST All of 'Em would like to wish everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving Holiday. Our office is closed until Monday Nov 27th, but All of 'Em Adult Industry News will be posted Friday and Saturday as usual. News Bytes Thursday, November 23rd 2006, 11:43am EST The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Bush Pardons Thanksgiving Turkeys. News Article Thursday, November 23rd 2006, 11:41am EST Granny porn one of the most popular searches on the Net. During one of my daily Google "sex" searches (yes, I get paid to do what many of you have to hide from your boss), my eyes were assaulted by a pornographic image of an elderly woman, to whom gravity had not been kind. The juxtaposition of sex and old age shouldn't be funny, disgusting or perverse. "That's just not right," I thought, squeezing my eyes shut and knocking down my browser before anyone could see me looking. Currently granny porn is one of the most popular searches on the Net. In our youth-obsessed culture, we don't like to think about older people having active, fulfilling sex lives -- or doing the deed at all. But the fact that it's so taboo guarantees thrill-seekers will look. It's the grown-up equivalent of checking out your own booger in the Kleenex. I've sought thrills of my own, but I draw the line at naked grannies and guys humping balloons. News Article Thursday, November 23rd 2006, 11:40am EST With so many different styles of lingerie available today it’s hardly surprising that Men have trouble choosing Bras, Knickers & Lingerie. Carol Tromans of lingerie advice website BreastTalk.co.uk, says, “We have lots of men asking us to help them choose the right lingerie for their partners. It is getting tricky with so many styles. How many men know what a demi bra or triangle bra is? Our website tries to help out by offering lots of ways men can contact us from forums, live chat and email. Over the years we’ve helped 100’s of men”. There are a few things to remember when buying lingerie for your partner and BreastTalk.co.uk has compiled a top 10. News Article Thursday, November 23rd 2006, 11:39am EST Scientists say a bid to encourage giant pandas to breed by showing them 'panda porn' has paid off. They claim to have sparked a baby boom among the endangered animals by showing them DVDs of pandas mating. "It works," Zhang Zhihe, a leading Chinese expert, told the Xinhua news agency. Pandas are notoriously poor breeders and the 'panda porn' movies were just one of many techniques used to encourage them to breed. In the first 10 months of this year 31 cubs were born in captivity in China and 28 survived, said Zhang. That's an increase from 12 births in 2005 and just nine in 2000. Of this year's births, 14 came through natural breeding, while artificial insemination or a combination of the two produced the rest. Now comes the next test - getting the trick to work outside China. |
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