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News Article Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 11:33am EDT Girls gone mild: Suit against Joe Francis halted. Girls Gone Wild" jailbird Joe Francis had his first good news in a while yesterday. Although Francis is still incarcerated on tax evasion charges, two young women who were suing him over their appearance in one of his famous flesh-baring videos dropped their case and apologized Monday. "I'm very pleased with the events today. It's a sign of things to come," Francis told me from jail in Reno, Nev. However, he added glumly, "I'm sure that there will be another [similar lawsuit] that will follow it." Brooke Patsolic and Christina Brose had claimed they were plied with alcohol (before they were 21) and did not know their sexual antics would end up on "Girls Gone Wild: Endless Spring Break Vol. 6." But after Francis posted video of them consenting to be filmed on his Web site, the women issued a statement saying: "We have agreed to dismiss our lawsuit and acknowledge that no money has been paid to either of us." Francis described the women's suit as "sinister." "It's purely based off of greed," he said. "Lawyers ... think I'm in jail now and I can't defend myself and I can't fight back, and they're wrong." Along with his tax evasion problem in Nevada, Francis also faces a contempt of court rap relating to dropped felony charges in Florida. Search Engines Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 11:31am EDT Ask’s portion of the search market is a mere 4.3% (src. Hitwise) so it is understandable that optimizing for Ask is a low priority in the eyes of many webmasters. That said, despite the company’s rather infamous advertising campaigns Ask has some incredible and unique features that I believe will slowly but surely steal search share from its more popular brethren. Consequently, it seems appropriate to provide some tips on how to optimize for Ask without sacrificing rankings on the other search engines. To that end the following instructions are supplementary to the recommendations provided in my How to Optimize for Yahoo” article. News Article Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 11:30am EDT Public funds aid software used for porn. With the help of $1.5-million in city and county subsidies, the University of South Florida houses more than a dozen new tech companies. But only one of them boasts this target audience: the Internet pornography industry. PrivacyView Software LLC develops programs that encrypt and mask computer files and Internet surfing histories. From the start, when the company touted its product at a 2004 adult entertainment trade show, its core clientele was obvious. "The days of Internet porn consumers being 'busted' by their spouses or worse yet, their children, will eventually be a thing of the past," began the press release announcing PrivacyView's software. "Now your members can surf with 100 percent confidence that their adult surfing habits will not be discovered." News Article Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 11:29am EDT Ex-Online Casino Domain Name Falls Short. Florida-based auction house Moniker.com announced that the WallStreet.com domain name failed to meet its reserve price at an auction this weekend and will now be re-auctioned at a later date. Experts, auctioneers and analysts had speculated that the website could set a new record price of up to ten million dollars but the highest bid for the domain, once an online casino, was only three million dollars. This fell well shy of the reserve price of between four to five million dollars even though the site registers between 2,000 and 4,000 hits a day. News Article Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 11:28am EDT Apparently women can't talk about porn with out insulting each other. Nothing sparks a heated conversation amongst women like the topic of pornography. On a recent episode of The Tyra Banks Show, (ya know, the one where Violet Blue was kicked off early) a focus group of women sat down and talked about pornography. I'm sorry, did I say "talk"? I meant bitch at each other. One woman insisted that if you have a problem with porn you're "hung-up", while the other women were convinced that porn was "disgusting". What I thought was interesting is that they couldn't even talk about porn like mature adults, and resorted to insulting the woman they didn't agree with. My favorite moment was when one women told another that the reason she had a problem with porn was because she was "bad in bed". Search Engines Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 11:27am EDT Does Your SEO Company Understand Your Marketing Strategy. Many businesses believe that a search engine optimization company should be chosen for its ability to get high rankings. However, the truth is that there are more complex issues that should be investigated. An SEO firm should be able to find your business's high-profit segments, identify your client base, and make changes to your campaign over time. Learn more about how to find an SEO company that will create a campaign that is truly successful. News Article Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 11:26am EDT Google unveils YouTube antipiracy tool. Google on Monday unveiled a new system for identifying pirated video on YouTube as it gets uploaded, but the system puts the burden on movie studios and other content owners to provide YouTube copies of the content first. Content owners provide the video to YouTube and specify whether they want to block anyone else from uploading copies of it. They can also ask YouTube to allow others to post it and put ads next to it or otherwise promote it on their sites, David King, YouTube product manager, told reporters in a briefing at YouTube. News Article Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 11:26am EDT The balkanization of Storm Worm botnets. Creators of the Storm Worm Trojan have introduced a change to their malware that could help administrators trying to fortify their ISPs and networks against the prolific pest. PCs infected by Storm in the past week or so use a 40-byte key to encrypt traffic sent through Overnet, a peer-to-peer protocol that helps individual bots connect to other infected machines, according to Joe Stewart, a senior researcher with SecureWorks, a provider of security services and software. The change effectively segments the Storm botnet, estimated by Stewart to contain from 250,000 to 1 million machines, into smaller networks because each node must know the password to unencrypt the Overnet traffic.The balkanizing of bots into distinct botnets could be a sign that the Storm authors plan to sell services to spammers or other cyber criminals. But so far, there is little evidence such plans are in place, because Storm is only segmenting bots into two groups: those created in the last week and those created earlier. Stewart says there could be other reasons for breaking bots into smaller groups, such as the desire for more nimble and manageable networks. News Article Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 11:25am EDT Brits' masturbation habits revealed. If you're wondering why your male workmate is taking so long in the toliet he could well be masturbating. A new survey has revealed the work toliet as one of men's favourite places to masturbate with 13 per cent retiring to a cubicle for a quick "break". A whopping 69 per cent liked to masturbate was in front of their computers while a few vain participants masturbated in front of a mirror, according to the CupidBay survey. Women, on the other hand, prefered to do it in the comfort of their own bed (58 per cent) while 13 per cent of them masturbated in the shower. The survey of over a 1,000 people found English men do it on average eight times per week in comparison to Scottish and Welsh men who masturbate daily. Irish men are more restrained at five times a week. Scottish women masturbate the most at three times a week, with English girls doing it twice, while Welsh and Irish ladies just do it once. News Article Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 11:23am EDT What’s the Difference Between a Telco and an ISP? The inability of the courts and regulatory bodies to keep pace with technological changes could create problems, one that Richi Jennings, an analyst at Ferris Research thinks the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should acknowledge and fix. He notes that ISPs have garnered a legal status known as Common Carrier. This categorization means that an ISP cannot be charged if someone uses its communications lines to transfer illegal materials, such as copyrighted works or child pornography. The rationale is the ISP’s job is to move information from place to place and not to judge whether or not the content is appropriate or inappropriate.  News Bytes Monday, October 15th 2007, 12:10pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Putin Going to Iran Despite Reported Death Plot. News Article Monday, October 15th 2007, 12:07pm EDT In the Unites States, using a computer to download obscenity is a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison. Federal law makes it a crime to use "a computer service" to transport over state lines "any obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book, pamphlet, picture, motion-picture film, paper, letter, writing, print, or other matter of indecent character." Under the plain reading of the statute, most men in the United States may be felons. Statistics on the downloading of "lewd pictures" are notoriously unreliable, but according to some surveys, 70 percent of men have admitted to visiting pornographic sites at some point. Many such sites are probably obscene under the Supreme Court's definition of obscenity—that is, they, according to community standards, "appeal to the prurient interest," depict "sexual conduct" in an patently offensive way, and lack "serious literary, artistic, political, and scientific value." Today, despite these laws, there are very few prosecutions centered on mainstream adult pornography. Over the last decade, and without the repeal of a single law, the United States has quietly and effectively put its adult obscenity laws into a deep coma, tolerating their widespread violation with little notice or fanfare. Today's obscenity enforcement has a new face: It is targeted against "harmful" porn (that is, child pornography and highly violent or abusive materials) and "public" porn, or indecency in the public media. This enormous transformation has occurred without any formal political action. And it illuminates just how America changes law in sensitive areas like obscenity: not so much through action as through neglect. News Article Monday, October 15th 2007, 12:06pm EDT DVD sales are in free fall. Audiences are flocking to pornographic knockoffs of YouTube, especially a secretive site called YouPorn. And the amateurs are taking over. What’s happening to the adult-entertainment industry is exactly what’s happening to its Hollywood counterpart—only worse. On Friday, May 18, Steve Hirsch, founder of Vivid Entertainment Group, the world’s largest producer of adult videos, was expecting a mysterious visitor. But Stephen Paul Jones was late. When Jones, an unknown figure in the pornography world, finally arrived in the all-white reception area of Vivid’s Los Angeles offices at 2 p.m., he was apologetic. His private plane had broken down, he explained, and he was forced to fly commercial. Hirsch, dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, found that excuse a little slick. But he was eager to speak with Jones, so he let it slide and introduced him to two Vivid colleagues. When the four men sat down in the company’s conference room, Jones got right to the point: He wanted Vivid to buy his website, YouPorn.com. As its name suggests, YouPorn lets users upload and watch a virtually unlimited selection of hardcore sex videos for free. The user-generated clips on YouPorn—like those on YouTube, the site it mimics—range from the grainiest amateur footage to the slickest professional product. Also, like YouTube, the site has far more traffic than income. Just nine months after going live, in September 2006, YouPorn was on pace to log about 15 million unique visitors in May, Jones told the Vivid executives, and its audience was growing at a rate of 37.5 percent a month. Today, YouPorn is the No. 1 adult site in the world; Vivid.com, a pay site, is ranked 5,061. According to Alexa, a website-ranking company, YouPorn’s overall rank is higher than CNN.com (84), About.com (114), and Weather.com (195). (Those numbers are averages for the three-month period from mid-June to mid-September.) The meeting lasted an hour. As Hirsch listened to Jones’ pitch, he considered the risks of acquiring YouPorn. Hirsch had been in the adult-entertainment business long enough to be mindful of its legal pitfalls, and that was a chief concern. How do you verify the age of the participants in these thousands of sex videos—or, for that matter, the age of the audience? News Article Monday, October 15th 2007, 12:05pm EDT AC/DC wins back website from porn business. They've sung about "dirty deeds" for decades, but with a younger online audience hardcore headbangers AC/DC are cleaning up their act. For years the domain name acdc.com was held by a porn site with metal fans perhaps getting more than they bargained for every time they clicked. But after years of wry tolerance the band’s management in New York has finished negotiations to reclaim the name and launch the brand at its rightful place online. AC/DC label manager Sam Horsburgh from Albert Productions in Sydney said with fans as young as 10 or 11 turning to the site something had to be done. “The demographic of the band has shifted a lot,” Mr Horsburgh said. “The push to get it back came predominantly because they knew there were a lot of younger fans coming through. “The young fans are so net savvy it’s the first thing they do. And there was some interesting viewing up there for some time.” In announcing the reclaimed site the band made a tongue-in-cheek reference to the original domain: “Feel free to visit us from work, school or, for long-time visitors to the site, from the usual privacy of your basement.” News Article Monday, October 15th 2007, 12:05pm EDT Does law foil defense in child porn cases? As the Justice Department steps up an aggressive crackdown on Internet child pornography, a little-noticed provision of a sex offender law is making it harder for defense attorneys to review some of the most important evidence against its suspected purveyors and consumers. In response to a section of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, judges and prosecutors are requiring defense attorneys and computer forensic experts to examine digital pornography images on computers at government facilities, rather than receiving their own copies. Often, FBI agents stationed in the rooms monitor their activities. The new provision has triggered an emotional debate about the constitutional rights of suspects who are accused of some of the most heinous crimes. Supporters say the measure is needed to prevent children from being revictimized by unnecessary copying and distributing of the digital contraband. Many of the images gathered as part of the evidence depict very young children being raped and beaten. ''The law is designed to protect the rights and interests of child victims,'' said Andrew Oosterbaan, the Justice Department's chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. ``I don't think there's a human being out there who wouldn't agree with its purpose.'' But some of the provision's most vocal critics are former law enforcement officers and prosecutors, who say their ability to defend child-pornography suspects has been compromised. News Article Monday, October 15th 2007, 12:04pm EDT More Inappropriate Nude Images Found on Google News Home Page. There were several reports yesterday of an inappropriate image found on the Google News home page. The image was sourced from an Inside Bay Area article, that talked about a new study on youth STD cases. The image shown on the home page was of an uncircumcised penis.One Google News user said: Please take this down. I do not appreciate my 12 year old daughter seeing this while looking for news story's. An other Google Groups user was very upset with this picture as well. Google News Guide posted an apology and explanation: News Article Monday, October 15th 2007, 12:03pm EDT Five to six years for $1 million porn spammers. Two US men found guilty in June of breaching the terms of the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act, as well as numerous other charges including money laundering and witness tampering, have been sentenced to spend over five years in jail for their crimes. They are the first to be convicted under the US spam control regulations. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) estimates the criminal business made 'over $1 million' in profits, and some sources have put the figure at closer to $2 million. To avoid the clutches of the law after the introduction of the CAN-SPAM act, the pair routed their mails through servers in the Netherlands, and set up shell companies in Mauritius and the Isle of Man to hide their finances. The Californian Jeffrey Kilbride received a sentence of 72 months, more than his partner James Shaffer's 63 months thanks to attempts to silence a witness. Sponsor Monday, October 15th 2007, 12:02pm EDT LiveBucks Launches VIPCams.com Inoveo Communications Inc. the owners and operators of the LiveBucks.com webmaster program announced the launch of their new site VipCams.com today. Vipcams.com features high resolution photos and full length wide screen movies of real webcam models in up close and personal, hardcore action. with sleek combinations of tour styles that converts all types of traffic. A minimum of 3 hours of free live sex shows for members every week plus $30 in live show credits with the first months purchase make VipCams.com an easy sell for webmasters and an excellent value for clients. Webmasters will earn top dollar with VipCams.com by promoting the newest LiveBucks site at $55 per join. News Article Monday, October 15th 2007, 12:01pm EDT Broadband Video: Has Its Time Come? Many video providers, particularly in the television and movie spaces, made significant strides to provide their content via a growing number of on-demand channels, including the Internet , in 2005. For video providers, the decision to embrace on-demand distribution was born as a response to both the opportunity and the dilemma posed by broadband Internet and DVR growth. Although the peer-to-peer distribution of content is still far less prevalent for video than for music, it is clear that many video producers (Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), et. al.) want to proactively address the potential for piracy by releasing a growing number of titles via legitimate on-demand channels. Also, many video providers see a true opportunity for on-demand content that goes beyond a US$1.99 download to include advertising models and the development of complementary programming specific to mobile platforms, such as the mobile phone. News Article Monday, October 15th 2007, 12:00pm EDT Dutch Consumer Association declares war on Vista. The Dutch Consumers Association has called for a boycott of Windows Vista, after the software giant refused to offer free copies of Windows XP to users who are having problems with Vista. A spokesman for the Consumentenbond says that the product has many teething problems, and "is just not ready". The association claims it received over 5000 complaints about Vista. Many printers and other hardware failed to work, the association says, computers crash frequently and peripherals are very slow.  News Article Monday, October 15th 2007, 11:59am EDT California court tilts towards mandating web accessibility. California law may require websites to be accessible to disabled internet users, according to a ruling in a case against retail giant Target. Despite recent improvements to the accessibility of Target.com, the case has now been certified as a class action. Target was sued by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and one of its blind members, Bruce Sexton, under a federal law, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and also under two state laws, the California Disabled Persons Act and the California Unruh Civil Rights Act. The NFB and Sexton argue that Target.com is not accessible to blind internet users, in breach of these federal and state laws. They complained that images on the site were missing alternative text upon which blind users rely; keyboard controls do not work, meaning users must be able to work a mouse; and headings are missing that are needed for navigation. News Bytes Saturday, October 13th 2007, 12:05pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. 'Terror leader wanted to bomb Parliament'. News Article Saturday, October 13th 2007, 12:04pm EDT The Price Of Freedom: JM Productions, Max Hardcore Speak Out. A bust, a raid, or any sudden intrusion by law enforcement into one's business is never a pleasant experience, but the sad truth is that it can happen to anybody at any time. In anticipation of the unexpected, it can't hurt to, as the Boy Scouts of America say, "be prepared." And there are leading lights in the adult industry who agree. Jeff Mike of JM Productions said that while being prepared for such a circumstance used to be commonplace, it's less so these days. "In the late ’80s, early ’90s," Mike said, "it was fairly common for companies to get busted. It happened all the time. Back then, it seems like everyone was very supportive of one another, and people had war chests of money set aside to take care of it. Nowadays, people don't do that. They're just kind of doing their thing, spending the money, being big shots or whatever ... meanwhile, they get busted, they're going to put us all in jeopardy, because they don't have any money set aside for legal." News Article Saturday, October 13th 2007, 12:04pm EDT Prison time for US porn email spammers. Two men who sent millions of unsolicited pornographic emails have been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison as part of the first prosecution under a federal anti-spam law, United States Department of Justice officials said. Jeffrey A Kilbride of Venice, California, and James R Schaffer of Paradise Valley, Arizona, purchased email addresses and sent the owners of those addresses links to pornographic websites, prosecutors said. They were convicted in June of charges including conspiracy, money laundering, fraud and transportation of obscene materials after a three-week trial and were sentenced by a federal judge in Phoenix this week. Defence lawyer Steven Goldsobel declined to comment on Friday afternoon. News Article Saturday, October 13th 2007, 12:02pm EDT Staunton prosecutor: Definition of obscenity rests with grand jury. At a press conference conducted Friday morning at his North New Street office, Staunton prosecutor Ray Robertson said it's not up to him to determine what's obscene, but a seven-person grand jury. "Let them decide whether something is obscene ..." Robertson said. The prosecutor said the recent public outcry concerning the opening of After Hours Video on Springhill Road, which he declined to discuss in detail, prompted him to host the press conference in an effort to educate the community about the legal definition of obscenity. "The issue has been raised," he said. Virginia law defines "obscene" as " its dominant theme or purpose an appeal to the prurient interest in sex ... which, taken as a whole, does not have serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value." While Robertson made it clear that watching a pornographic movie in one's home is legal, he said there are restrictions about what can be published, distributed and rented. "There are limits of free speech," he said. Business Saturday, October 13th 2007, 12:01pm EDT Setting Up Your Online Affiliate Program. I consider Amazon.com to be the Internet pioneer for establishing affiliate programs. Their strategy to permit others to sell their products for a commission on affiliate websites has single-handedly help them become an Internet powerhouse and has resulted in Amazon.com becoming a household name. As an online business owner, you, too, should be offering your own affiliate program. Affiliate marketing is so much less expensive than to take out a banner ad or text ad on other websites or in email newsletters, and the results tend to be better. Imagine that you have a staff of people working for you, and they have agreed to work free of charge until they successfully make a sale. At that point, they are paid when their sales reach a predetermined volume (as outlined in your affiliate agreement) at a certain interval. You've instantly created a fast and almost free sales force with very little money. News Article Saturday, October 13th 2007, 12:00pm EDT Former Manager Sues Adult Chain for Wrongful Termination. An ex-general manager of an adult store has taken legal action against his former employer for wrongful termination. According to a recent report, Denny O’Neil’s lawsuit alleges that he was fired from Fantasy for Adults Only, in part, because he objected to employees having sex with customers and refused the owner's request that he fire certain employees with AIDS. Fantasy and its parent company, Oregon Entertainment Corp., operate six stores in the Portland area and two stores in Montana. News Article Saturday, October 13th 2007, 11:59am EDT The Most Expensive Hotel Porn EVER. Edwina McCombs, a Tennessee resident, who was visiting Southern California to vacation with her 8 and 9 year old daughters, was awarded $85,000 today when a jury found Value Lodge, an Artesia motel, liable for involuntarily subjecting her girls to hard-core pornographic movies. Ms. McCombs checked into the Value Lodge where she informed the front desk that she was there with her two young daughters. When she was in the room, Ms. McCombs went to take a bath and the children turned on the television to watch a children’s show. Instead, the children were subjected to hard-core pornography with close-up images of people engaged in sodomy and homosexual acts. Leejanice Toback, an attorney for McCombs, stated that this is probably the first such verdict against a hotel or motel for showing pornography. News Article Saturday, October 13th 2007, 11:58am EDT Going once ... wallstreet.com goes nowhere at auction. As it turns out, porn is much more exciting than Wall Street. About three times as exciting. Yesterday, the Web address wallstreet.com went up for auction, but, in the end, failed to sell when the top bid turned out to be $3-million (U.S.), well below the site's reserve price of between $4-million and $5-million, a spokeswoman for moniker.com told Bloomberg. Florida-based moniker.com, a company that registers and manages the transfer of website domain names, put the address up for sale behalf of the site's owners. Analysts had been divided over just how valuable the virtual Wall Street property was. Some had speculated the address could fetch more than the $9.5-million (U.S.) price tag porn.com garnered earlier this year, while others predicted the sale price would wind up being much less. Currently, wallstreet.com hosts various advertising links, but no original content. While the site registers between 2,000 and 4,000 hits a day, it can be difficult to build a brand around a site with such a generic name, according to Jupiter Research media analyst Barry Parr. News Article Saturday, October 13th 2007, 11:57am EDT Microsoft Adds Web Invitation Tool. Microsoft Corp. has added a digital party-invitation service to its suite of Windows Live Web services. Events, as the new tool is called, works much like IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s Evite does. Users choose one of dozens of predesigned templates -- birthday, cocktail party, Chinese New Year, even Yom Kippur breakfast. They fill in the time and place of their event, add a map, type in invitees' e-mail addresses and hit send. The person planning the party must have a Windows Live ID, such as a Hotmail e-mail address, but guests don't need one to respond to the invitation.  News Bytes Friday, October 12th 2007, 11:32am EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Rice Says Iran 'Lying' About Nukes. News Article Friday, October 12th 2007, 11:30am EDT `Porn.com' Record May Be Shattered at `WallStreet.com' Auction. Forget the randy jokes. The question of whether money is hotter than sex may be answered today as the WallStreet.com Web address goes on sale. The reserve price range is $4 million to $5 million, said Monte Cahn, chief executive officer of Moniker.com, which is managing the auction in Hollywood, Florida, and acting as broker. The final price may exceed the $9.5 million paid earlier this year for Porn.com, he said. Anything close would make the virtual Wall Street worth more than a spot on the real Wall Street. A seat on the New York Stock Exchange is valued at about $7 million, based on the terms of its 2006 merger with Archipelago Holdings Inc. and today's closing price of NYSE Euronext shares. The exchange, the world's largest equity market and Wall Street's best known symbol, sits in the heart of New York's financial district. News Article Friday, October 12th 2007, 11:30am EDT Website launches 'hot, nasty' dyke porn. Bren Ryder was on the fast track to becoming a firefighter when she realized her true calling was to help her community in a different way: by producing hot, dyke sex on film. "I came to a point where I was asking myself, what do I really want to do?" says Ryder. "My plan was to do firefighting and then porn on the side, but I decided that was not really how I wanted it to be done. "I felt like porn should be out in public, it should be unashamed, and I chose to dedicate my life to creating websites with dyke porn films all the time." After a year of hard work, Ryder celebrated the launch of her new website GoodDykePorn.com with a lively party and film screening at Video In on Sep 29. Complete with its own 'private' bedroom equipped with a video camera feeding images to the rest of the guests, the party gave dyke-porn wannabes a playful taste of what it's like to be on other side of the camera, as well as a sneak peek at some scorching new scenes to be featured on the website. Marketing Friday, October 12th 2007, 11:29am EDT Sometimes Motivation Has to be Felt. My daughter recently turned 15 and now that school is out it means it's time for her to get a job. Unfortunately, despite my threats of cutting off her allowance, she has not taken job hunting seriously. Weeks ago I started talking with her about getting out there so she can possibly have a job lined up and start work by the time school gets out. But, unfortunately, she never made that a a priority. Until she realized that she has no money to pay for text messaging! I've never seen her so motivated in my life! She's starting to take the whole getting a job thing seriously. This week she spent some time calling places to find out who will hire someone under 16. She found three places, the skating rink, the water park, and the child care at the gym. News Article Friday, October 12th 2007, 11:28am EDT Porn King Takes on Auckland Muesli Maker in Mayoral Election. Steve Crow made his name as New Zealand's pornography king by organizing an annual ``Boobs on Bikes'' parade of topless women down the main street of Auckland. Now he wants to be mayor. Crow, 50, managing director of adult entertainment empire CVC Group Ltd., is among 15 candidates trying to wrest leadership of New Zealand's biggest city from a millionaire muesli maker who has vowed to ban the parade. Results of the postal ballot will be announced as soon as Sunday. ``I run a porn company, so what?'' said Crow, who ranks fourth in the latest opinion poll. ``I genuinely believe Auckland is broken and someone needs to get in there and fix it.'' News Article Friday, October 12th 2007, 11:27am EDT Czech porn star 'in custody over alleged human trafficking'. Czech porn actor Robert Rosenberg, who was detained with his wife and assistant on Wednesday, is suspected of human trafficking, public broadcaster Czech Television reported Thursday. Authorities have so far declined to confirm this, the state attorney's office saying only that the three were detained. The Pravo daily reported on its novinky.cz website that a court had decided temporarily to place the Rosenbergs' child in a home. Rosenberg, who says on his website that he has acted in more than 2,500 porn films and has had 4,000 sex partners, recently alerted health officials to cases of syphilis in Prague, which has emerged as a porn production centre. News Article Friday, October 12th 2007, 11:26am EDT In my humble opinion, outside of New York and perhaps Berlin, the only place you would get to see a photography exhibition where asses are the objects of focus is in Madrid. And so last week the Fundación Canal opened their ass-tastic exhibition Ocultos (hidden things). The show displays 67 images exploring a variety of ways to observe, appreciate and gawk at people's posteriors. Sexy asses, old and wrinkly asses, cute asses, porn star asses, clothed asses with wedgies, cave-men asses -- name the type of ass and you will find it photographed here. It's actually pretty interesting to see how a backside can be made into the subject of classical modern art. Renowned international artists including Capa, Cartier- Bresson, Mapplethorpe, Man Ray and Lucien Clergue, and Spaniards Joan Colom, Rafael Navarro, Ramón Masats, and Isabel Muñoz among many others provide the work. The exhibition will be on to goggle at until the 6th of January 2008. Site Development Friday, October 12th 2007, 11:25am EDT How to Find Free Content for Your Web Site. I see a lot of webmasters complain in forums and chat rooms that they don't have enough content on their web sites, but they don't have the means or the knowledge to find more. There are actually many ways to obtain more web site content. You could hire someone to write it for you. You could purchase some ready made content about your site topic or you could spend some time and write content yourself. But did you know that there is a way you can get hundreds of pages worth of high quality, fresh content every day without paying a cent? There is. It's called article syndication. News Article Friday, October 12th 2007, 11:24am EDT Website offering virtual sex, drugs hits Canada. Police are concerned about a website being set up in B.C. that combines Facebook-like social interaction with virtual drug deals and naked characters having sex. Bruce Shuster, owner of Utherverse Inc. and Amsterdam's popular Red Light Centre site, claims he's already had 40,000 free hits, and found 1,200 people willing to pay $20 per month for an avatar - computerized persona - that can get naked, have sex, get into the "passion club," and buy virtual alcohol and drugs. Shuster, who describes his site as a mixture of Facebook and Internet "adult" soft porn, said he "looked all over the world and decided Vancouver would be the ideal city for this site. News Article Friday, October 12th 2007, 11:23am EDT Internet2 races 10 times faster. If you thought your new Verizon Fios service was fast, take a look at what Internet2 is up to. The research-oriented network has just boosted its network speeds to 100 gigabits per second, the Associated Press and others reported this week. That's a 10-fold increase from the theoretical 10Gpbs network connections offered today to its university, research and commercial members. Network connections this fast mean that a high-quality version of your favorite movie could be downloaded over the Net in a few seconds instead of the half a minute it takes over the old Internet2. By comparison, the same movie download can take hours over a typical home broadband line. Of course, it will be years before consumers ever see broadband connections this fast, but the speed boost could have a significant impact on the research community almost immediately. In fact, the AP story said physicists working on the world's largest particle collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva will likely be the first to use the faster network in May. The boost in capacity was achieved by sending data using 10 different colors, or wavelengths, of light over a single strand of fiber. Increasing the overall capacity on the network is important because it allows researchers and Internet2 members to get high-speed dedicated links on demand.  News Article Friday, October 12th 2007, 11:21am EDT Mobile broadband to dominate in 2011. Mobile broadband is expected to become the dominant broadband platform worldwide in 2011, according to a new report. The research, which was carried out by Informa Telecoms & Media, indicates there will be more than one billion broadband subscribers worldwide in 2011, with the majority using mobile rather than fixed systems. Increased adoption will also lead to bigger revenues, with Informa estimating that more than $400bn in service revenues will be generated by mobile broadband in 2012. HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) is expected to be the leading mobile broadband technology by then in terms of number of subscribers, followed by EV-DO and mobile WiMAX. EV-DO ("Evolution, Data Only" or "Evolution, Data Optimised" as it's also known) an alternative third generation standard backed by mobile operators such as Sprint in the US, is expected to have the most subscribers globally by the end of 2007. However, it is expected to be surpassed by HSDPA, the mobile broadband technology currently favoured by mobile operators in Ireland, in 2009. Meanwhile, TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), an alternative 3G technology which is currently being rolled-out in China, is expected to have close to 50 million subscribers by 2012. "Mobile broadband will represent close to half of total mobile service revenues in 2012, making it one of the largest and most strategically important segments of the mobile industry," said Mike Roberts, lead author of Informa's Future Mobile Broadband report. According to the study, by June 2007 there were already more than 200 commercial mobile broadband networks worldwide with more than 50 million subscribers using hundreds of different mobile, portable and fixed devices to generate billions of dollars in service revenues. News Bytes Thursday, October 11th 2007, 12:18pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Blast shakes Muslim shrine in India. News Article Thursday, October 11th 2007, 12:18pm EDT California state site can't shake porn problems. The Web site blamed for last week's Internet problems within the state of California has been taken offline after links to pornographic material reappeared on the site. The Transportation Authority of Marin's tam.ca.gov Web site was offline Wednesday, its front page replaced with a placeholder page saying the site is down for maintenance. The Web site was taken down after security experts reported that it was hosting pornographic material over the past weekend. "The site was shut down ... to step back and determine what was the best action to take to address the continued contamination," said Dianne Steinhauser, the authority's executive director, in an e-mail message. "The site is down until it is re-structured with additional security, can be sponsored by a more reliable ISP, and perhaps secured from this occurring." Steinhauser's 10-person agency has had a rough month. The agency switched Internet service providers in early September after first discovering that its servers had been hacked. And last week, it was at the heart of a crisis that threatened to pull the entire state of California off the Internet. Traffic Thursday, October 11th 2007, 12:16pm EDT Video Marketing for Free Traffic. Using video marketing to drive traffic to your web site is an online marketing strategy many small business owners and internet marketers are beginning to embrace, with much success. Having a traditional website only allows you to reach those people who first find your website. However, combining video, social networking and some simple video marketing techniques can drive hordes of qualified visitors to your website. First, let’s forget the silly videos you’ll find all over YouTube of kids running into fences and demonstrating the newest dance move. While that kind of video can bring in hundreds of thousands of views, it won’t bring the targeted traffic you need. News Article Thursday, October 11th 2007, 12:16pm EDT Miami Beach Convention Center to Host Exxxotica Show Through 2013. Victory Tradeshow Management (VTM) has reached an agreement with the Miami Beach Convention Center to continue the annual Exxxotica consumer show through the year 2013. Launched in 2006, Exxxotica features personal appearances by porn stars, exhibits of adult products and services, a full entertainment stage, educational seminar series and more. Notable adult celebs who have attended Exxxotica include Jenna Jameson, Tera Patrick, Ron Jeremy, Jenna Haze, Carmen Luvana, the Wicked Girls and many more. Sponsors have included Hotmovies.com, Hustler Hollywood, Wicked Pictures, Homegrown Video, SexSearch.com and Genesis magazine. News Article Thursday, October 11th 2007, 12:15pm EDT Dot-mobi domains go to highest bidders. The first dot-mobi auction has closed on a high, with domain name marketplace Sedo.com selling 100 mobile web addresses to the highest bidders. This was the first time the mobile domain names have been sold through an auction process rather than on a "first come, first served" basis. The web addresses were some of the 5,500 "premium names" - commonly-used, generic words and phrases - set aside by dotMobi (the company managing the new dot-mobi top level domain) before the launch of the domain in September 2006. Bidders from 34 countries went head to head to get their hands on the most popular domain names, such as hosting.mobi, which sold for $101,000, bank.mobi, which had a price tag of $51,501, download.mobi, which went for $51,500, currency.mobi, for $47,000, and insurance.mobi, which had a closing bid of $42,005. In total, the auction generated more than $850,000 for the continued creation of mobile content tools. Traffic Thursday, October 11th 2007, 12:14pm EDT Getting your site listed in search engines and directories is an important part of building a successful site. Most people tend to think of search directories and engines as one in the same. However, they are actually both quite different. The only similarity between the two, in fact, is that they both serve the same purpose: to help people find web sites of interest to them. Search Engines: By far the most popular search engine around is Google. Other search engines include Lorming, Inktomi, AltaVista, AlltheWeb, and MSN. Directories: Probably the most popular example of a directory is Yahoo. Other directories include Open Directory Project (dmoz.org) and Gimpsy. News Article Thursday, October 11th 2007, 12:13pm EDT Fixing our fraying Internet infrastructure. The broadband infrastructure in the United States is largely invisible to all but a few engineers. Were it as visible as a road system it would appear to be excellent in some places, but riddled with potholes in others; heavily congested at many times and locations; and in need of massive redesign. We need ubiquitous broadband penetration in the U.S. if we intend to claim leadership in the next Internet age. The problem is that we have reached a point of disconnect between the traditional Internet's architecture and the needs of today's customers. The traditional Internet's architecture was not designed, nor can it be expected to handle, the demands being placed on it. Bandwidth demand is growing rapidly, outpacing supply. It's as if every home in America suddenly needed 10 times more water at 10 times the quality coming out of the same size faucet. Today, the average home uses as much bandwidth as a major office park did a few years ago. Remember when you used Internet access for just e-mail? Now, chances are you e-mail photos, download music and watch videos, often all at the same time. The bandwidth consumed by a popular YouTube video, "The Evolution of Dance," downloaded 54 million times, equals an entire month's worth of data network traffic in the year 2000. iTunes usage grew 47.5 percent in 2006 alone. News Article Thursday, October 11th 2007, 12:12pm EDT Democrats kill proposal for permanent Net tax relief. A key U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday unanimously agreed to extend a ban on Internet access taxes for another four years--but not before rejecting proposals to make the tax permanent or extend it for a lengthier stretch of time. At issue is a law dating back to 1998 that generally prohibits state and local governments from taxing Internet access, including DSL (digital subscriber line), cable modem and BlackBerry-type wireless transmission services. It also prohibits "discriminatory" taxes that treat products sold on the Internet differently than those in brick-and-mortar stores, but it does not deal with the separate issue of imposing sales taxes on goods bought online. Social Networking Thursday, October 11th 2007, 12:11pm EDT Social Bookmarking for Internet Marketers. Social bookmarking is one of the hottest Web 2.0 online trends. The concept of social bookmarking is about 10 years old, but due to it's recent explosive growth, it has just now become one of the new internet "buzz words". It's important for internet marketers to understand social book marking and how it can help them promote their products and services. So, what is social bookmarking? What is social bookmarking's purpose? Why is social bookmarking important to internet marketers? What is Social Bookmarking? You are probably already familiar with bookmarking web sites, that you want to visit again, using your Internet Explorer or Firefox web browser. The bookmarks you create to these sites are for your personal use and are stored on your computer.  News Article Thursday, October 11th 2007, 12:10pm EDT Mozilla mobilizes for mobile Firefox browser. Mozilla is prepping a mobile version of Firefox, the world's most popular open-source web browser. "People ask us all the time about what Mozilla's going to do about the mobile web," reads a blog post from VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer, "and I'm very excited to announce that we plan to rock it." He says the company will introduce a mobile version of Firefox at some unspecified date after December 31, 2007. It will run Firefox extensions, and developers will have the power to build their own apps for the browser via Mozilla's user interface language (XUL). With this in mind, Schroepfer says, Mozilla has made mobile tools a very important part of Mozilla2, an upcoming overhaul of its overarching applications development framework. "Mozilla will add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2," he explains. "This means we will make core platform decisions with mobile devices as first-class citizens." News Article Thursday, October 11th 2007, 12:10pm EDT FCC weighs decision on Net access charges. U.S. regulators are expected to decide Thursday whether to grant a request by AT&T to lift some regulations that govern what it can charge rivals for access to its high-speed Internet lines. The Federal Communications Commission is facing a deadline of midnight on Thursday to rule on a petition by AT&T to scale back the regulations. Analysts have said the commission could rule at the same time on a similar petition by Qwest Communications International, whose request was put on hold by the agency last month. The FCC eased the same regulations on Verizon Communications last year. Verizon's petition was not approved by the agency, but went into effect when one of the commissioners was recused and the remaining four deadlocked. All the requests have been strongly opposed by smaller rivals such as Sprint Nextel, Time Warner Telecommunications and XO Communications. News Bytes Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 11:36am EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Putin snubs Sarkozy over stance on Iran. News Article Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 11:35am EDT Google blocks 'pornographic' video of Sweden art attack. Search engine giant Google has blocked access to video footage of four masked men who vandalized the photo exhibition 'A history of sex' at an art gallery in Lund on Friday. Google prevented users of YouTube and Google Video from viewing the video, not for its depiction of a criminal act but because it contained images of a pornographic nature, Sydsvenskan reports. The "pornography" to which Google referred was at the heart of Friday's attack, when a group of people believed to have been neo-Nazis stormed into the Kulturen Gallery and smashed seven of artist Andres Serrano's photographs with crowbars and an axe. The four men, one of whom filmed the incident, made it clear that they disapproved of the sexual content of the exhibition. Before leaving, they distributed flyers bearing the message: "Against decadence and for a healthier culture". By Monday a film entitled Nationalists against degenerate "art" had been uploaded to Google Video. Set against a soundtrack of death metal music, footage of the armed attack was interspersed with samples of Serrano's photographs and slogans questioning whether they could really be classified as art. News Article Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 11:33am EDT Chef Jeff Fired From Tennis Job Over Porn Past? Anybody who's met Geoff Mena, a.k.a. Chef Jeff, during his nearly eight years in the adult industry — his credits including stints as an on-air personality at KSEX.com, a web designer for Elegant Angel, and a freelance photographer/videographer, among many other gigs — will tell you that he's a perfectly affable, charismatic and well-mannered fellow. Hardly a scourge to have around civilized company. But apparently the city of Surprise, Ariz. thought otherwise. At least that's what Jeff believes. And he wants to let it be known that it was his work in the industry, all signs would suggest, that laid at the heart of the matter. News Article Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 11:31am EDT Culture or porn? Barbican show is posing a most seductive question. It may be the most sexually explicit exhibit ions ever mounted in a London gallery. It is almost certainly the first to ban under-18s. But the Barbican insists its new survey of 2,000 years of sex in art - from Roman marbles to Andy Warhol's 41-minute film, Blowjob - is a most serious academic show. Curated by heavyweight art historians from Oxford University and Central Saint Martin's, the exhibition, Seduced, spans Etruscan vases, 19th century Japanese prints and 20th century photography such as Robert Mapplethorpe's images of male bondage. It aims to question the line between art and pornography and explore shifting attitudes towards sexually explicit imagery, when material was either acceptable or hidden. One of the first objects visitors will see will be a fig leaf made for the private parts of Michelangelo's David to spare Queen Victoria's blushes when she visited. Kate Bush, the head of the Barbican Art Gallery, said it was not an attempt to use sex to lure visitors. News Article Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 11:30am EDT ASACP Sets Steps for Safe Child-Porn Reporting. The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection has devised a set of steps to help Internet surfers report child pornography without committing crimes themselves in the process. "When reporting child sexual exploitation, it could be just as important to know what not to do as it is to know what to do in order to not become criminally liable for the possession or distribution of child pornography," ASACP Executive Director Joan Irvine said, adding that "you could be criminally liable for your actions, and this is a situation few are prepared for." News Article Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 11:29am EDT House may ban Net taxes for another four years. Under mounting pressure from their Republican colleagues, the Democrats on a U.S. House of Representatives panel have finally scheduled a vote on a bill that would extend by four years a soon-to-expire federal ban on Internet access taxes. The House Judiciary Committee has placed a bill known as the Internet Tax Freedom Act on its lengthy agenda for a meeting slated to begin on Wednesday morning. An existing law that generally prohibits state and local governments from taxing Internet access--including DSL (digital subscriber line), cable modem and BlackBerry-type wireless transmission services--is currently set to expire November 1. It also prohibits "discriminatory" taxes that treat products sold on the Internet differently than those in brick-and-mortar stores, but it does not deal with the separate issue of imposing sales taxes on goods bought online. News Article Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 11:29am EDT Fixing a broken patent system. A patent is a powerful thing: it's a legal monopoly on an invention for up to 20 years. In the past, patents were almost universally regarded as essential to the economy. By rewarding innovation, they created an incentive for inventors to invent more. Yet more than any other time in our history, the patent system now is under fire, and enormous change has been afoot to "fix" it. How did we get here? One likely culprit is last year's BlackBerry case. The plaintiff there was a small holding company called NTP that had never developed any technology and never manufactured a product. It was in the business of collecting patents and extracting royalties from them, including some relatively unremarkable and dubious "wireless e-mail" patents. News Article Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 11:28am EDT As YouTube faces a $1billion lawsuit, Danny Bradbury looks at how technology to identify copyright material is becoming more sophisticated. Computers can recognise faces in pictures and even, arguably, filter out porn images from normal ones. But can they understand what is covered by copyright and what isn't? That's the problem facing engineers at the Google-owned video site, YouTube. But while the company says it is developing software to do just that, some experts suggest that the challenges have more to do with business than technology. In March, Viacom served YouTube with a $1US billion ($1.1 billion) copyright infringement lawsuit that claimed copyright-protected videos had been viewed 1.5 billion times on the site. In May, the Football Association Premier League launched a class action lawsuit against YouTube and has since been joined by other content providers. News Article Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 11:27am EDT 'White Ribbon Against Pornography’ Week to Fight Obscenity. A national campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of pornography begins Sunday, Oct. 28. The White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week, launched by Morality in Media, runs through Nov. 4. The 20th annual event will focus on what people can do to combat pornography. Morality in Media offers several suggestions, including reporting possible obscenity-law violations to your U.S. attorney and state prosecutor. Other effective strategies: Educate your community leaders, write a letter to the editor and make complaints to businesses that distribute or advertise pornography. Supporters will don white ribbons as a symbol of purity and a sign of their commitment to standards of public morality and the enforcement of obscenity laws. News Article Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 11:25am EDT 'Storm worm' exploits YouTube. Spammers are exploiting YouTube's "invite your friends" function to send spam containing a variant of the "Storm worm." Bradley Anstis, director of product management at security firm Marshal, said that spammers are taking advantage of the YouTube function that lets people invite friends to view videos that they have viewed or posted. The function allows someone to e-mail any address from an account. The scam on Google's video-sharing site is targeting Xbox owners, urging recipients to collect a prize version of the popular game Halo 3. Anstis said clicking on the link to "winhalo3" leads to a file containing a Storm trojan. News Article Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 11:25am EDT Email evidence jacks up litigation costs. Confusion over the handling of emails and other electronic documents for use as critical evidence in big litigation cases is costing the legal profession millions of pounds, a new survey has found. Ambiguity in deciding what forms of electronic communication should be used in so-called "e-disclosure" cases has led to a hike in costs by more than £1m per case, according to more than a quarter (26 per cent) of senior UK litigators. KPMG Forensic, which carried out the research, said nearly half of the 100 litigators it surveyed had little faith in judges' and masters' abilities to understand the new rules governing e-disclosure in the courts. Despite the introduction of guidelines on e-disclosure, dubbed Civil Procedure Rules (CPR), in 2005, nearly half (43 per cent) of lawyers believe the rules had had a negative impact on big commercial litigation cases. Fifty-six per cent of lawyers felt the new rules had in fact jacked up costs. News Bytes Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 12:10pm EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. Qatar Minister Says Oil Prices Should Top $100. News Article Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 12:09pm EDT Handling of obscenity cases disputed. A Justice task force tackles small producers of porn's most extreme content. Conservative groups say it's not enough and many prosecutors say it's a waste of time. On a cold morning in January, FBI agents converged on a modern brick office building in Koreatown in a mission conjured up at the highest levels of Washington: to rid the world of adult films by an obscure niche producer named Ira Isaacs. From his 12th-floor suite above Wilshire Boulevard, Isaacs, a stout, fast-talking 56-year-old Bronx native with a short ponytail and a lopsided "soul patch" of black hair under his lip, sent out some stomach-churning porn. Agents seized Isaacs' files and scanned his computer hard drives, and in July he was indicted on federal obscenity charges. He pleaded not guilty to six felony counts of transporting obscene material and two counts of not properly documenting the ages of performers, although there is no allegation that they were underage. Isaacs was barely known in the $4-billion adult entertainment industry in Los Angeles; his films, featuring bestiality and defecation, catered to a tiny audience. Yet his was the first obscenity case brought in Southern California by a Justice Department task force formed in 2005 after influential Christian conservative groups demanded a crackdown on smut. The task force's focus on bit players such as Isaacs demonstrates the difficulty of prosecuting pornography in an era when it is more pervasive than ever, with hard-core films offered by major hotel chains and cable companies, and X-rated content of every type exploding on the Internet. Traffic Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 12:08pm EDT New Website? It's Time to Think Links. Link building has long been the staple dietary topic for SEO and Internet marketing experts, but with good reason. This is hardly ground breaking news but having a powerful link profile will help you to rank well in the search engines. Having an especially powerful link profile will also drive traffic directly to your website. As the webmaster of a new site, there are several things you must do. First, you need to create a genuinely useful website filled with equally useful and informative content. You need to ready yourself to add fresh content on a frequent basis, in order to retain existing site visitors and to attract the search engine spiders. You also need to start building links – a good link profile takes time to develop so it is essential that you start as soon as possible. Below are some of the more and less effective methods of building quality inbound links to your new website. News Article Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 12:00pm EDT The new .asia domain registry opens for business today, triggering the familiar landgrab by brand owners. Carpet baggers will have to wait for their chance to hoover up potentially valuable names. DotAsia is available only to governments, trademark owners, and official bodies until the end of February. It'll then give everyone else a crack of the whip. It's the second of a new breed of regional top-level domains (TLDs). The .eu extension, which launched last year, was the first such multi-country domain. A Latin American and an African suffix are both on their way too. The .asia registry is being run by a Hong Kong-based not-for-profit that won final approval to set up shop last October. Plans for .asia addresses have been working their way through the international domain bureaucracy since 2000. DotAsia will use auctions for the most in-demand addresses, in contrast to other registries, which have been criticised for a lack of transparency in pricing. News Article Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 11:59am EDT Google cranks 'relevant' video-placing contraption. While it can't seem to get round to its promise to fire up a brilliant algorithm for removing copyrighted videos, Google has developed another way of making money for itself from YouTube. Websites in the US AdSense network can allow Google to pump them with context-sensitive YouTube clips and adverts. The clips will appear surrounded by a border containing banner ads. Google's calling the package a "video unit". There's an example at the AdSense blog here. For now at least, videos will come only from approved YouTubers towards the more professional end of the scale, so sadly no cats falling down stairs. And no proper telly nicked off Viacom, either. The cash from the surfers clicking the ads will be split three ways between the video producer, Google, and the host site. Social Networking Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 11:58am EDT The Power of Social Networking. If you are a frequent Internet user, most likely you are part of an online social network group. Be it Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace or any other sites, there bound to be someone who has invited you to join their social network. Other than participating in discussion, photo and video sharing, looking for partner and other mundane stuffs, how can you bring out the potential of your social network to the fullest to help you in your Internet business? First, let take a look at the benefits of an online social network News Article Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 11:56am EDT Online casinos hit by bot armies. Botnets are fulfilling law enforcement fears that online casinos could prove fertile ground for money laundering, according to a recent, little-noticed report by risk compliance firm Fortent. Some are engaging in variations of an old casino scam, in which preprogrammed-to-lose bots transfer dirty money - obtained through stolen credit cards, illicit drug sales or whatnot - to a chosen winner. Others flood a room and conspire to defraud a legitimate player by leveraging the mathematical advantage inherent in knowing more of the cards. Another scam involves spamming a known player in the hopes of stealing password and account information, and then bleeding the account dry through the fraudulent games described above. News Article Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 11:55am EDT Tougher web laws unveiled after Longhurst murder. New legislation to outlaw extreme pornography was tonight hailed as justice for schoolteacher Jane Longhurst who was murdered by a man addicted to violent internet porn. The Government wants to make the possession of images of sexual violence punishable by up to three years in jail. The move follows a three-year campaign by Jane's mother, Liz Longhurst, which was backed by MPs and a 50,000-signature petition. Marketing Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 11:54am EDT Every Brand Needs a Message and a Messenger. I don't drink, although after a hard day it seems like it might be worth starting, but since I can't stand the taste of the stuff, I generally just settle for drowning my troubles in a stiff diet soda. However if I were going to take up the evil spirits, I would start with Reyka Vodka, not because it's better or worse than any other vodka, but because they have an extraordinary marketing campaign and an equally clever integrated website (www.reykavodka.com) with an enchanting if somewhat bizarre Icelandic spokeswoman. The video commercials for the campaign drew 20,000 views in the first three weeks after being posted on YouTube. These Web-video commercials combine distinctive visuals with an eccentric brand spokesperson, and a series of hysterically funny scripts; granted they're not for everyone, but if you like your marketing clever, funny, stylish, and effective, then there is a lot to learn from this campaign. News Article Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 11:53am EDT Online gambling law regs revealed. The US Treasury Department (DoT), in consultation with the Department of Justice, last week finally released proposed regulations for enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). The UIGEA wreaked havoc on the internet gambling industry when it was passed last October, and the proposed regulations are more than three months late. The proposed regulations call for a six month comment period from the payment processing industry, and in truth, actual implementation will come some time after that to allow the Treasury to analyse the comments. It seems likely that actual implementation of the most influential unenforced law in American history will not happen until mid-2008 at the very earliest. Of course, the damage has been done, with most of the gambling companies having fled the American market long ago, leaving a trail of angry customers and decimated share prices in their wake. The law put the onus on banks and other merchants in the processing industry to block restricted transactions with internet gambling companies. Banks and those in the cheque processing industry complained vociferously about having to check some transactions manually, and the DoT seems to have taken those concerns to heart. As proposed, the regulations restrict implementation of the law to those in the processing industry who have any kind of hope of deciphering the origins of the transaction in question. International transactions pass through multiple parties on their way to a final deposit, and the regulations essentially cut out middlemen and those on the backend of the transaction who have no connection with the original suspect transaction. The law also has a catch-all opt-out provision for those companies that can demonstrate to the DoT that the law would impose an undue hardship. News Article Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 11:51am EDT Teenager Succeeds In Ridding Store Of Adult Magazines. A teenager succeeds in getting adult magazines removed from a local store. All she did was ask the owner. Graci Phillips, 15, says at first she got a luke warm response from the owner of Broadway News in Middletown. But a few weeks later, the adult magazines were no longer among the convenience store's offerings. Now, Graci is being praised for having the guts to speak up for her beliefs. "I have two little brothers and two littler sisters, I don't want them to see this," said Graci Phillips. "I've had friends addicted to porn, and it completely messed him up." "I was very proud of her to find the words and the energy to confront him about something she believes strongly in," said Debbie Phillips, Graci's mother. News Bytes Monday, October 8th 2007, 11:54am EDT The Rest of the News - Updated Continuously. US, UK Scientists Win Nobel in Medicine. |
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