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News Article Tuesday, July 13th 2010, 12:05pm EDT Upset Dutch porn star Bobbi Eden vows to do something for her Twitter followers. Despite the Netherlands’ loss in the FIFA World Cup finals, Dutch porn star Bobby Eden who promised all her Twitter followers to give oral sex if her team wins has vowed to do something for them with fellow porn star Vicky Vette. The blonde sex actress previously promised on Twitter that she would "give a BJ to all my followers," and the pornographic pledge nearly came to fruition: the Netherlands advanced to the World Cup final and came within minutes of a shootout with Spain, but ultimately forfeited a dramatic goal with just minutes remaining in extra time. Eden was noticeably upset on Twitter when the Netherlands lost, writing, "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!" She also made clear that she was "bummed," tweeting that "I am really bummed" and "Damn i'm bummed." Still, despite the fact that her oral oath went up in flames, Eden promises to "team up" with fellow porn star Vicky Vette to "do something for our followers! Only for followers!" News Article Tuesday, July 13th 2010, 12:04pm EDT Win the Best High Volume Links. One of the more frustrating things during the process of competitor link research is finding that many of your client's competitors are doing nothing but getting the lowest quality but highest quantity links possible. And, of course, even though your usual standards are to get the best quality links, your client simply wants to do what their competitors are doing. So what do you do? Here are some ways to get the best of the competitor's links for higher volume while still sticking to your principles of better link quality. News Article Tuesday, July 13th 2010, 12:04pm EDT EU boffins aim to reinvent the hard disk. EU-backed university researchers are aiming to reinvent the hard disk with a 1Tbit/in2 areal density platter based on nanospheres. The project is called TERAMAGSTOR (TERabit MAGnetic STORage technologies) and is based on work by Professor Dr Manfred Albrecht of the Physics Department in Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany. He coordinated a team of researchers in Germany, Switzerland, and Sheffield in the UK. The project is a follow-on to MAFIN (MAgnetic FIlms on Nanospheres), a prior proof-of-concept project which explored the nanosphere-based technology. News Article Tuesday, July 13th 2010, 12:03pm EDT Zeus baddies unleash nasty new bank Trojan. Hackers have created a new version of the Zeus crimeware toolkit that's designed to swipe bank login details of Spanish, German, UK and US banks. The malware payload, described by CA as Zeus version 3, is far more selective in the banks it targets. Previous versions targeted financial institutions around the world while the latest variant comes in two flavours: one that only target banks in Spain and Germany, and a second that only targets financial institutions in the UK and US. In addition the latest version of Zeus contains features that makes it far harder for security researchers to figure out what the malware is doing. Zombie drones on the Zeus botnet operate on a need to know basis, CA explains. News Bytes Monday, July 12th 2010, 10:49am EDT Russia: Iran close to nuclear weapons. News Article Monday, July 12th 2010, 10:49am EDT Warner Labels Sue Reality Kings, Alleging Copyright Infringement. Warner Music Group, on behalf of several of its labels, has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court against RealityKings.com (RK) and its parent company, RK Netmedia Inc., alleging copyright infringement “of the most blatant and offensive kind.” The lawsuit was filed July 7 by attorneys representing a number of well-known labels owned by corporate parent Warner Music Group—including Warner Bros Records, Electra Entertainment Group, Atlantic Recording Corporation, Bad Boy Records and Asylum Records, among others. News Article Monday, July 12th 2010, 10:48am EDT China becomes world's biggest sex-toy producer. The next time you walk into a sex shop in the United States, take a look at the wide range of toys and products on the shelves. Aside from the pornographic material, chances are that most of the vibrators, dildos and lingerie carry the “made in China” label. Nothing unusual about that, you might think, but the irony is that China is a very conservative country where porn magazines, DVDs and websites are strictly prohibited, and where sex is still a taboo subject. Yet, the country produces about 70 percent of sex toys for the world, a Chinese sex toy manufacturer, Romeo Jiang, said. News Article Monday, July 12th 2010, 10:47am EDT What's legitimate about Senator Conroy's proposed internet filter? Does it mean lawful in a purely legalistic sense? Or perhaps, according to one definition in the Macquarie Dictionary, "of the normal or regular type or kind''? Then give me a definition of ``normal or regular''. And while you're doing that, try not to be in any way subjective - do not frame your definition from a purely personal perspective of right and wrong, normal or regular. As if. I can guarantee you the answers would be as broad and varied as the tapestry of Australian society. One woman's normal would be another's aberrant; one man's pornography will be another man's art. News Article Monday, July 12th 2010, 10:46am EDT Bidding for rivals' AdWords can be infringement, sometimes. A company can stop other companies using its trademarks to trigger search engine adverts if those adverts do not allow a web user to tell which company is behind the ads, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said. Europe's top court has confirmed a previous ruling and has said that the use of someone else's trade marks as 'keywords' in search advertising systems will violate their trade mark rights if the ads themselves create confusion about their origin. The ad will breach the trademark owner's rights if it "does not enable average internet users, or enables them only with difficulty, to ascertain whether the goods or services referred to by the ad originate from the proprietor of the trade mark or from an undertaking economically linked to it," the ruling said. News Article Monday, July 12th 2010, 10:46am EDT Judge In Stagliano Obscenity Case Refuses Expert Testimony. In a stunning upset, Judge Richard J. Leon has denied both the prosecution and the defense request to have expert witnesses testify at the John Stagliano/Evil Angel obscenity trial. In a written opinion which he read from the bench and which will be published in the court record at some point, Judge Leon began by reciting the three "prongs" of the Miller test for obscenity: That "the average person, applying contemporary community standards", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; that the work depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way so as to offend the standards of the community where the action is brought; and that the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.  News Article Monday, July 12th 2010, 10:45am EDT The Challenges of Measuring SEO Success, Part 1. Over the past five years, I've had to explain the state of an SEO campaign at hundreds of meetings. During that time, both the data that was made available to me to analyze, and the repercussions of what that data means, has changed dramatically. In addition, I've learned a lot about the challenges of explaining to non-SEO folks why we do what we do, and how the data that we see and what it says drives ongoing SEO strategy. News Article Monday, July 12th 2010, 10:44am EDT How to use YouTube's video-editing tool. Back in June, YouTube released an experimental tool that had been long asked for by its users: a browser-based video editor. The tool, which requires no additional software, or browser plug-ins (besides Adobe's Flash), lets users make minor edits to videos they've uploaded, as well as stitch several clips together into one. While it lacks many basic features of modern day consumer video editing software (such as captioning, transitions, and image stabilization), it makes up for it in convenience. All your video files, and the rendering, is taken care of by YouTube's server farm, meaning you can do some very involved HD video editing on older machines that would be otherwise woefully inadequate. YouTube has its own introductory guide on what the editor's various features are, but we thought it would be a good idea to walk you through how to create something, as if you had just come back to your computer with a digital camera full of clips you wanted to put into one, cohesive video. Read on to see how to do it. News Article Monday, July 12th 2010, 10:43am EDT D.C. jurors will decide porn obscenity. An obscenity trial against pornography bigwig John Stagliano and his business opens Tuesday in a case with sweeping First Amendment implications that could significantly alter the $10 billion adult entertainment industry. Stagliano, the porn mogul better known as Buttman, faces 32 years in prison. He and his company, Evil Angel, also face $7 million in fines for making fetish films with titles unfit to print in a family newspaper and selling them through the mail and over the Internet. Stagliano started a Web site, DefendOurPorn.org, and said he is defending the right to free speech. If convicted, he has vowed to take the battle to the U.S. Supreme Court. David Hudson, of the First Amendment Center in Nashville, Tenn., said the trial deals with community standards for obscenity in the age of the World Wide Web. "This case has potential to be a significant case, known more than for its well-known defendant," Hudson said. The case is also unusual because Stagliano isn't considered to be on the far fringe of the porn industry, he said. The trial is being held in Washington because the District is the home of the Department of Justice's anti-obscenity task force. Task force investigators purchased two videos through the mail and watched a trailer for another over the Internet. News Article Monday, July 12th 2010, 10:42am EDT Porn Star Bobbi Eden's Fans Miss Free Oral Sex After Dutch Defeat. The adult film star, from the Hague, joined colleagues Vicky Vette, Miss Hybrid, and Gabby Quinteros to form what they called 'Team BJ' - offering every one of her Twitter pals a bit of excitement if the Dutch won the tournament. Eden made the promise after the Oranje sprung a surprise by beating favourites Brazil in the quarter-finals - and hopes were raised when they made the final after a thrilling win over Uruguay in the last four. But the dream came crashing down four minutes from the end of extra time in the final, when Spain midfielder Andres Iniesta handed his side a first ever World Cup final win. News Article Monday, July 12th 2010, 10:42am EDT Japanese xxx movie actress backs sex-scandal hit Ariel. Japanese hot porn star Maria Ozawa aka Miyabi has backed sex-scandal hit Indonesian pop star Ariel. Terming the two homemade sex videos of Ariel with two models and TV personalities — Luna Maya and Cut Tari as accidental, Ozawa has asked the moral police, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia not to judge the disgrace him. "So many people asking me about 'Peterporn', sorry I can’t answer for that," Miyabi posts her thoughts on Twitter. "Because my personal quote is: 'Don't judge the book from the cover'." She's also expressed her strong interest in getting to know Ariel. "He is handsome and his ladies are beautiful," Miyabi twitted previously. News Bytes Friday, July 9th 2010, 1:10pm EDT California cop verdict sparks looting. News Article Friday, July 9th 2010, 1:10pm EDT Ron Jeremy Talks the Current State of Porn on 'The Green Room' (VIDEO) Ron Jeremy popped up in the audience of 'The Green Room With Paul Provenza' (Thu., 10:30PM on Showtime) and David Feldman wasted no time asking the porn actor about the industry. Feldman said he had issues with the use of the f-word. "I was watching one of your movies with my family and the language ..." Feldman said. Then, Jeremy talked about the evolution of porn flicks, especially how the dialogue and plots evolved. "When it went video, the plot was, 'Here's a cup of coffee, eat me.' There's your dialogue." News Article Friday, July 9th 2010, 1:09pm EDT Sprint Sells ‘New’ Phone Thoughtfully Loaded With Porn. Wednesday, the news broke that a Detroit woman who bought a new phone from a local Sprint store was surprised to discovered that porn had been loaded on the phone. Rhonda Lee said she was “embarrassed” and “upset" at the find, which occurred when she was showing off the Sprint EVO HTC to friends. The phone apparently contained five porn videos, some as long as 12 minutes. "I'm so, so embarrassed,” said Lee, “you couldn't imagine … I mean for you to be going through your phone and you have friends and you're going through your phone and all of a sudden porn shows up. I mean so, so upset.” Many of her friends are religious, she said, which only added to her sense of embarrassment. News Article Friday, July 9th 2010, 1:08pm EDT VeriSign: Net bandwidth must grow 1,000 times. To deal with the flow of information over the next 10 years, the capacity of the Internet will need to increase by a factor of a thousand, according to VeriSign. The U.S. security company, which administers one of the root servers of the Internet, has started a project to deal with the expected increase in bandwidth demand. Project Apollo was announced by VeriSign in March, with the aim of strengthening the .com and .net domains. The company's chief technology officer, Ken Silva, talked to CNET sister site ZDNet UK to give details of how VeriSign plans to increase Internet server bandwidth. News Article Friday, July 9th 2010, 1:08pm EDT House votes to block porn on government PCs. A recent vote in the U.S. House of Representatives seemed straightforward enough: government computers must block viewing or downloading porn. After all, a series of news reports have highlighted, in scandalous detail, how some financial regulators earning six-figure salaries were watching porn at work as Wall Street imploded. So, as it turns out, did employees of the National Science Foundation and the Interior Department--including ones who were supposed to be inspecting oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. But the exact wording of the legislation (PDF) that the House approved last week by a 239-to-182 vote could, civil libertarians warn, go too far and unreasonably infringe on Americans' First Amendment rights.  News Article Friday, July 9th 2010, 1:07pm EDT Remarketing: Online's Misunderstood Conversion Tool. Behavioral, geographic, and demographic targeting has become a taboo concept in some media circles. One particular tool -- behavioral targeting, also called remarketing or retargeting -- has been singled out for unfair criticism, despite its phenomenal success for advertisers brave enough to engage it as a conversion tool. Remarketing at its most basic level allows marketers to get in front of viewers who have already shown interest in a product or service by following them and showing ads for the product or service they initially eyed as they surf elsewhere on the Web. News Article Friday, July 9th 2010, 1:06pm EDT Closed-Door Wrangling Delays Start of Stagliano Trial. "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful," as Samuel Beckett wrote in Waiting for Godot. Indeed, that's pretty much what happened on what was supposed to be the second day of the John Stagliano/Evil Angel obscenity trial. A hearing which had originally been called for 2 p.m. was rescheduled at the last moment until 3, and about 10 minutes after the defendant and the attorneys for both sides had entered, along with a small cadre of journalists and a slightly larger contingent of what appeared to be law clerks, the court clerk announced that the proceedings were to be closed to the public, requiring everyone but the attorneys to leave the room. News Article Friday, July 9th 2010, 1:05pm EDT Scroogle resurrected once again. Scroogle has once again returned from the dead, continuing to serve up its privacy-friendly Google search results after another programming tweak from founder Daniel Brandt.Brandt and the not-for-profit Scroogle have been scraping Google search results since 2002, allowing netizens to use Mountain View's search engine without being tracked by the company. But in May, after Google removed an interface page where Brandt was scraping results, the service went offline. It returned a day later, as Brandt tapped a slightly different interface, only for this interface to vanish as well. News Article Friday, July 9th 2010, 1:05pm EDT ISPs mark disapproval of the Digital Economy Bill. The great and the good of the internet world turned out in force last night at the London Marriott, DJed and evening gowned, to learn who had won prizes at the ISPA annual awards dinner. What a difference a year makes: last year the talk was all around safety, particularly for children. Last night the focus had shifted, with digital economy and the right way to fund creativity on the net very much to the fore.The evening began with a speech on behalf of Digital Inclusion Champion Martha Lane Fox. She was unable to attend due to illness, but had she been there would have talked enthusiastically about bringing the last 10 million UK adults – who have never used the internet – into the fold. News Article Friday, July 9th 2010, 1:04pm EDT China renews Google's internet licence. Google's internet licence has been renewed in China, after the company stopped automatically redirecting Google.cn users to its "uncensored" servers in Hong Kong. The world's largest ad broker added a brief update to its 28 June blog post in which it confirmed the licence renewal. "We are very pleased that the government has renewed our ICP licence and we look forward to continuing to provide web search and local products to our users in China," it said. News Bytes Thursday, July 8th 2010, 11:28am EDT Three held over Norway 'al-Qaeda bomb plot'. News Article Thursday, July 8th 2010, 11:28am EDT Academics challenge moral consensus on sex and the net. A moral panic around childhood sexualisation and the dangers of the internet is closing down important channels of debate and making the internet a more dangerous place for adults and young people alike. That was the consensus view taken by Onscenity, an international network launched this week, which draws together experts to respond to the new visibility or 'onscenity' of sex in commerce, culture and everyday life. In the very first full session of this network, academics and researchers heard presentations from four opinion leaders in this field. Susanna Paasonen spoke of how the fragmentation of pornography caused problems for the authorities, who had problems nowadays determining what was sexual and what was not. She observed: "If you can imagine a fetish, there probably exists a group out there that is in to it – and if there isn’t, there soon will be." As example she cited "the ultimate snow bondage and shivering website" - she is from Finland after all. News Article Thursday, July 8th 2010, 11:27am EDT How to Conduct a Link Opportunity Inventory (Plus 9 Common Link Opportunity Types). We recently advanced the idea of measuring a market's link opportunities, whereby a link builder conducts a series of set queries to help plan a link building campaign. The requirements of scale -- thoroughness, speed, and simple metrics for quicker decisions -- forced us to further hone the concept, and led to our development of the link opportunity inventory process and worksheet. So let's get going! A link opportunity inventory of your market enables you to: News Article Thursday, July 8th 2010, 11:26am EDT Steve Crow denies giving up RSA fight. Steve Crow denies giving up on his drawn-out battle to save the financially troubled New Plymouth RSA. Crow and his brother, Inglewood builder David Crow, bought the RSA's Strandon property last year for $1.9 million and promised their dying Dad they would do all they could to keep it open. However, they did not count on resistance by the RSA's executive committee to the changes they wanted to make. An August court date is now set for both sides to fight over who owes whom money after the RSA took advice from head office and walked out of the clubrooms in February, despite a contract that appeared to commit them to stay, the Taranaki Daily News reported. News Article Thursday, July 8th 2010, 11:25am EDT Aussies to push ahead with web censorship. A change of Prime Minister down under is not enough to kill off one of the most stupid ideas of the 21st century.It had been thought that when Julia Gillard took over the Australian government that she would allow a little bit of common sense to happen in Aussie politics.However, it seems that Gillard is cut from the same mold which believes that Australians are precious snowflakes who need protection from the rest of the world. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, she is going to press ahead with plans to filter the internet Chinese style and cut Australians from a stream of information that the government thinks is too dangerous for them.  News Article Thursday, July 8th 2010, 11:24am EDT Colombo mob underboss John Franzese convicted of shaking down Hustler and Penthouse strip joints. He came into the courthouse in a wheelchair, but 93-year-old Colombo underboss John (Sonny) Franzese left in a prison van. Franzese, dubbed The Nodfather for snoozing during the three-week racketeering trial, was wide awake when a jury convicted him yesterday of racketeering - and shaking down the Hustler and Penthouse strip joints in midtown Manhattan. Resting both hands on a wooden cane, he smiled at his daughter and grandson in the front row. After more than a half-century in the Mafia, the legendary gangster was done in by the testimony of his own son, John Jr., a former drug addict who recorded hundreds of hours of incriminating conversations with his father as a government informant. News Article Thursday, July 8th 2010, 11:24am EDT 10 Copywriting Tips for SEO and PPC. This article provides helpful information for any copywriter trying to adjust to working with an SEO/SEM agency. 1. Write for your audience first, then search engines. Crossing brand communication and sales driven goals with manipulating search engine algorithms is not a process which involves any comprimise. Firstly write from a sales perspective, then tweak your copy until it meets keyword density requirements. 2. Write as much as possible! When writing for search engines the more content you have on your website the better. That is as long as it ties in tightly with your websites theme and purpose. Through having more content on your webpages you open up opportunities for people to come across your website through long-tail search terms. News Article Thursday, July 8th 2010, 11:23am EDT Congress weighs curbs on state 'iTaxes' If there are two things state tax collectors seem to agree on, the first is that finding more money could really come in handy right now. The second is that taxing iTunes and other digital purchases might just do the trick. A new proposal in the U.S. Congress is, however, designed to curb many of these "iTaxes," which have popped up all over the country in the last three years. Currently, some 23 states and the District of Columbia levy sales taxes in one form or another on e-books, music, apps, ringtones, and other digital downloads. The bill, sponsored by Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), is part of a broader effort by technology firms and telecommunications providers to push back against what they view as tax agencies that are unreasonably singling out electronic purchases with unfair, expensive, and confusing rules. News Article Thursday, July 8th 2010, 11:22am EDT Fleshlight Sues CalExotics, Others in Patent Case. Fleshlight parent company Interactive Life Forms has filed a patent infringement case against 25 prominent sex toy manufacturers and distributors alleging illegal use of its patents and trademarks. The suit, filed June 30 in U.S. District Court in Austin, Texas, seeks actual, compensatory and punitive damages and a permanent injunction that would enjoin the defendants from using the company’s patents and trademarks. Prominent defendants in the suit include California Exotic Novelties, Pipedream Products, Tenga, Topco Sales, Eldorado Trading, Honey’s Place, Liberator, Nalpac, Williams Trading Co., Adam & Eve and LFP Internet. News Article Thursday, July 8th 2010, 11:21am EDT China bans vulgar marketing of online games. The tendency to use vulgarity in the promotion of online games is likely to be curbed, as the country's culture authorities tighten management of the cyber game market.The Ministry of Culture published a notice on Tuesday, requiring cultural departments at all levels to check the vulgar marketing of cyber games. The notice said that related departments should require websites to delete fripperies included in online games, and should criticize and educate entrepreneurs who promote their cyber games through the use of profane and violent ads. The new policy came after a series of touch balls played by online game companies aroused public controversy. News Article Thursday, July 8th 2010, 11:19am EDT Symbian malware creates mighty zombie army. Mobile malware that affects Symbian Series 60 handsets is being used to create a botnet. Security firm NetQin claims as many as 100,000 smartphones have been compromised with the malware, which typically poses as a game and affects Series 3 and % Symbian devices. NetQin said the malware is programmed to send SMS messages from compromised devices. "These botnets do one of two things; send messages to all the contacts of the address book directly, or send messages to the random phone numbers by connecting to a server,” NetQin explains in a blog posting. News Bytes Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 10:46am EDT Oil seeps into New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain. News Article Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 10:46am EDT Professor warns Aus firewall is undemocratic. The proposed great Australian firewall is bad law and bad policy on every level, according to Professor Catharine Lumby speaking at the first conference of new international academic network Onscenity in London on Monday. Professor Lumby, Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, reckons the implementation of the firewall places Australia at the very limits of western democracies. Among the serious criticisms she levelled at the project were the lack of transparency in respect of the list of blocked URLs, and the lack of any administrative appeals procedure to remove a URL once it had been added. She told the conference: "The proposed route is arbitrary, since it relies heavily on notification of URLs. News Article Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 10:45am EDT Reports of the Death of Guest Blogging for Link Building are an Exaggeration. One of my most-loved website promotion strategies is guest blogging. So I was understandably distressed to see a couple of posts recently criticizing it. The week before last, Ann Smarty wrote, "guest blogging...to build links is being so much abused that it makes me shudder," and a post by another link builder was titled flatly, "5 Reasons Why Link Building Through Guest Posts is Bad Strategy."The logic of guest blogging seems undeniable. When you guest post, you're featured on a site with much more authority and a larger audience than your own. Guest bloggers also provide a needed respite to a blog's regular writer(s). And for link builders, guest posts carry attribution and control over a link back to their site. News Article Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 10:44am EDT Trojan skewers security software with Windows. Security watchers have discovered a Trojan that uses built-in Windows functionality to overwrite security software and compromise systems. The malware - which poses as an antivirus update - uses Windows input method editor (IME) to inject a system, technology that normally creates a means for users to enter characters not supported with their input device. For example, PC users with a 'Western' keyboard would take advantage of the technology to input Chinese or Japanese characters. Security firm Websense, which has written a detailed write-up of the malware, explained: "The trojan can install itself as an IME, then it kills any running antivirus processes and deletes the installed antivirus executable files. The original executable file of this trojan disguises itself as an antivirus update package." As Websense notes, the attacks show that malware writers have begun using Windows input methods to infect vulnerable systems.  News Article Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 10:43am EDT Porn Star Offers Twitter Followers Sex if Holland Wins World Cup. Holland's "No.1 porn star" put forward her services in support of the national team's bid to win the World Cup soccer tournament in South Africa, news.com.au reported Wednesday. Bobbi Eden, the star of more than 100 adult films, promised to relieve all her Twitter followers of any pent-up sexual tension if the team win Sunday's final. After beating Uruguay 3-2 in a semi-final on Tuesday, the Netherlands will play the winner of Wednesday's Spain vs. Germany semi-final. "If #ned wins the #worldcup I will give a .... to all my followers," part of Eden's post on Tuesday night read. News Article Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 10:43am EDT STDs More Prevalent in Men Over 40 Using ED Drugs. A Harvard study has concluded that men over 40 who take erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra, Levitra and Cialis are at higher risk for contracting a sexually transmitted disease. “Men who took the impotence pills were almost three times more likely to have a sex disease, particularly HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in the year before and after they started the drugs, according to research published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine,” reported Bloomberg. “The higher rate of sexually spread infections may have more to do with the habits or temperament of the men using the erectile drugs than with the medicines enabling them to have more frequent or riskier sex, the authors said.” News Article Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 10:42am EDT Be Realistic About Cross-Referrals. As you build your business, you naturally explore different avenues of networking for new opportunities. One such source is the cross-referral. Cross-referrals are strategic agreements, whether formal or informal, between companies serving like markets to trade their clients’ contact information to the other for marketing their complimentary products or services. For instance, web designers may build referral resources from freelance writers, marketing and branding companies or web developers and other businesses that do things that the designers don’t, but offer complimentary services to their end-customers. Cross-referrals are a great way to use free, word of mouth advertising though referral agreements may not always be free. There will be some arrangements where a commission can be earned based on a prearranged percentage or a flat-rate referral fee; but many startups are happy to give free referrals in return for the same courtesy. News Article Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 10:41am EDT Will Swedish Parliament Host Pirate Bay. The Swedish Pirate Party: We want to make use of parliamentary immunity from prosecution to protect The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Party recently started to deliver Internet bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, a bittorrent search engine. It is a website that helps people to share digital content, regardless of form. Since The Pirate Bay was founded in 2003, the copyright industry has constantly tried to sabotage and prevent both its servers and users from communicating. This is a problem affecting free speech as well as the internet infrastructure. It is long since the file-sharing debate was primarily about intellectual property. For several years, it has been about fundamental civil rights such as free speech and the right to privacy. This has become obvious, for example, when a German court recently denied the website The Pirate Bay the right to act politically and ordered it banned from the internet. News Article Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 10:40am EDT Don’t Miss Out On a Major Deal: Register for The AVN Show. It’s long been the norm that great business in this industry is done by building relationships. And more often than not, those relationships are built at trade shows.That’s why so many companies and individuals are registering for The AVN Show, slated for Aug. 5-8 at the Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa in Hollywood, Fla. Simply put: There are many companies that will be there, and nowhere else.“We have so many companies that are exhibiting exclusively at The AVN Show rather than other trade shows this year,” said Beth Noonan, event project manager for AVN. “They are familiar with our company and the quality trade shows that we produce, and they know they will get the value they have come to expect from AVN. News Article Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 10:40am EDT Mozilla stokes Firefox 4 with first beta build. Mozilla has released a first beta of Firefox 4, which comes loaded with lots of fresh features and a distinctive new look. In January the open source browser maker nixed Firefox 3.7 and jumped instead to Firefox 4 in a move to reflect the number of changes it was making to the popular surfing tool. The current iteration of Firefox is 3.6. Firefox 4 will supersede that later this summer when the finalised code is expected to be released. “If you are using a Windows PC, the most noticeable new feature will be the look of the browser,” noted Mike Beltzner on Mozilla’s blog. News Article Wednesday, July 7th 2010, 10:39am EDT Microsoft patches Freetard-by-design bug. Microsoft has cast itself as one of the Good Guys in the battle over intellectual property, unlike those scofflaws over at Google. Which makes one recent Windows bugfix more than a little ironic: it patches a bug that makes Windows 7 the file-sharing gift that never stops giving. Support advisory number 981,112 confirms that when media files stop being shared, Windows won't go to sleep. Or in the words of the advisory: This issue occurs because the Windows Media Player network sharing service sets power state flags when media is shared. When you stop sharing media, the power state flags are not reset to allow the computer to enter sleep or hibernation. So only PCs running Windows 7 that were once sharing media files, but have stopped, are affected. Surely some mistake? News Bytes Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 11:54am EDT One in three youths without work in Italy. News Article Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 11:53am EDT Porn movie was filmed at a London hospital. A London hospital hired out one of its wards to porn producers who wanted to film a "big budget" movie there, it has emerged. The unusual use of the hospital - which hired out the ward fully-equipped - came to light yesterday as Tory MP Penny Mordaunt spoke in the House of Commons. She said that while working as director of Kensington and Chelsea Council she'd learnt a hospital was hiring space for use as a film set, and had been shocked to discover it was a porn movie. Despite it earning the hospital a "substantial income" she said the activity was not adding to the objectives of the primary care trust. News Article Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 11:52am EDT Full text of Internet censorship regulation released in Belarus. The full force of Internet censorship will be applied from September 1, closer to the presidential elections. The website of the so called Operative and Analytical Center at Lukashenka’s Administration published the text of the joint regulation of the Center and the Ministry of Communication “On Approval of the Regulation on Restriction of Access to Information Banned for Distribution under Legislative Acts for Internet Services Users”. Internet service providers are given a sort delay. The restrictions are to take full force from September 1, 2010, not July 1, as it was expected earlier, Electroname.com writes. The process of access restrictions looks like this:  News Article Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 11:52am EDT Crawl, Index, Rank, Repeat: A Tactical SEO Framework. In our first article in this series, which focused on SEO from the perspective of the search engine crawling experience, we explored the primary aspect of the crawl, index, rank methodology. We then went on to discuss the second aspect of this fundamental SEO concept, the indexation process. This article will focus on the third aspect of the crawl, index, rank methodology: rankings. But first, a short refresher on the assumptions put forth in the first and second articles: News Article Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 11:51am EDT Internet appliances: A dream is realized. Ten years ago, the next big thing in tech was supposed to be the Internet appliance: a device that offered tech newbies a simpler and cheaper way to get onto the Internet. Within the span of only a few months a host of such devices hit the market--products such as 3Com's Audrey, Netpliance's I-opener along with machines from Sony, Gateway, and Compaq. They were all aimed at trying to offer the Web without the cost and complexity of a full-fledged computer. Around the same time, makers of other products like the Kerbango Internet radio saw an opportunity for products that tapped the power of the Internet for a single purpose. Some predicted that the industry was poised for rapid and dramatic growth. News Article Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 11:50am EDT Sometimes link builders can work magic -- not make-an-elephant-disappear magic, but pull-a-link-out-of-thin-air-for-a-site-that-doesn't-deserve-it magic. Getting links is, in some ways, a kind of secret art. Unfortunately, by the time many businesses turn to link builders they need way more than magic, they need a miracle. But hey, miracles can happen right? Sure! With creativity, planning, thought, time...oh wait, no, that's not a miracle, that's called doing the work. The fact is, there are a ton of reasons people will link out to another site, but there are few common reasons they won't. News Article Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 11:49am EDT In hard times, the business of selling sex continues to struggle. Last week, Playboy Enterprises announced more layoffs, looking to save some $3 million a year and planning a shift from media company to licenser of the Playboy brand. The company has been on the market for some time, but so far it has failed to sell. According to Crain’s ChicagoBusiness.com, “Playboy Chief Executive Scott Flanders said in a statement the company is ‘aggressively looking’ for ways to streamline the organization.” In other words, the brand is a sinking ship. Of course, Playboy is but one sector of the sex industry that has found itself floundering since the onset of the recession. I’ve written elsewhere on the struggles the adult movie industry has faced in the wake of federal obscenity indictments, online content pirating, and the economic downturn, not to mention more recent attempts by an AIDS advocacy organization to enforce a state regulation that requires condom use on all adult film sets. News Article Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 11:49am EDT How To Write For Search Engines. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) writing, as a distinct style, was born in the Internet era and has matured before our very eyes in a relatively short span of time. Although it is evolving and maturing still, and will continuously do so, we can define some of the tried and tested steps of content optimization to help unique pages place at or near the top of search engine rankings. Some experts go on to say that the goal of SEO is two-fold, with the first objective to put out the appropriate "bait" for search engine spiders and the second to serve up useful information to people who want and need it. Debates about priorities continue among SEO professionals, but it is never a good idea to devalue the human factors in any success formula. The singular goal, then, would be to develop, position and refine content in such a way as to satisfy all visitors to the page and/or site, both human and bot alike News Article Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 11:48am EDT Will .XXX clean up the Internet? The battle rages on: The intermingling of adult sites like Playboy.com and Penthouse.com with commercial sites like Ford.com and MSN.com makes it too easy for kids to find smut, says Stuart Lawley, the chief executive at ICMRegistry.com. The group claims adult sites benefit from the new domain because it encourages the use of accepted business practices and more reliable e-commerce. Lawley says about 8,000 adult site owners have pledged support for the .XXX domain. According to a report at Wired.com www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/06/icann-xxx/, religious groups and safety experts oppose .XXX because it will legitimize porn. InternetSafety.com says .XXX will just make porn proliferate. "The way in which ICANN has chosen to implement the .xxx domain will have no effect whatsoever in terms of filtering adult content on the Internet," says Aaron Kenny, CTO and co-founder of InternetSafety.com, in a press release. "As long as there are still porn sites with .COM extensions, you will still need to filter them one by one. Instead of solving the problem, ICANN has exacerbated it by paving the way for the porn industry to double their online footprint." News Article Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 11:47am EDT TSA to Block "Controversial Opinion" on the Web. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is blocking certain websites from the federal agency's computers, including halting access by staffers to any Internet pages that contain a "controversial opinion," according to an internal email obtained by CBS News. The email was sent to all TSA employees from the Office of Information Technology on Friday afternoon. It states that as of July 1, TSA employees will no longer be allowed to access five categories of websites that have been deemed "inappropriate for government access." The categories include • Chat/Messaging.• Controversial opinion. • Criminal activity. • Extreme violence (including cartoon violence) and gruesome content.• Gaming. The email does not specify how the TSA will determine if a website expresses a "controversial opinion." News Article Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 11:46am EDT X-rated movies banned in Ghana. Worried by the alarming rate at which “obscene” movies are gaining massive acceptance in Ghana, the Ministry of Information working in collaboration with the Censors Board and the movie unions has finally wielded the sledge hammer on the film producers by banning the sale of x-rated movies in Ghana. The ban, according to a reliable source became effective last month. But reacting to this development, a Ghanaian actor, who’s currently working in Nigeria, Actus Frank, says he does not see anything wrong with the “soft-porn” movies as they call it in Ghana. “I have been part of the trend. If I must do it, then I will do it." News Bytes Monday, July 5th 2010, 9:51am EDT Dangerous Eastern Heat Wave Could be a Record-Breaker. News Article Monday, July 5th 2010, 9:50am EDT Miami-Dade health officials say they will investigate a complaint alleging adult movies fuel the spread of human immunodeficiency virus and similar diseases. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed a complaint in January against several makers of adult entertainment, The Miami Herald reported Friday. The foundation says the filmmakers, by not requiring actors to wear condoms, are violating a Florida statute against behavior that might spread disease. Those named in the complaint include Bang Brothers Films, Josh Stone Productions and Reality Kings Productions, all based in Miami, and Hustler Video of Beverly Hills, Calif. "They set a bad example," the foundation president, Michael Weinstein, said. "A lot of young people get their sex education from porn. They find daddy's DVD or go online." Larry Walters, a lawyer for Bang Brothers, said the company allows actors to decide if they want to use condoms. He called the investigation "a tempest in a teapot" and suggested the foundation wants to kill the industry. News Article Monday, July 5th 2010, 9:49am EDT Chatham to Adult Businesses: Keep Out! The town of Chatham isn’t going to sit idly by while the forces of evil amass at the border, even if they’re not … amassing at the border. You simply never know when the threat of an invasion will become a reality, and once it does it’s too late to do anything about it. So better to install laws that preclude the evil from even getting a foothold, and that’s just what the city fathers would like to do in a few weeks, when new regulations will come up for a vote. The regs for adult establishments are designed to be especially effective, to say the least. Originally developed for tattoo parlors—those scourges of skin—they have since been expanded to include other adult entertainment operations. The crafty crafters of the new regulations know that pesky free speech laws prevent them from outlawing all such businesses altogether, but they also know that they can draw a metaphoric noose so tightly around those businesses that they’ll be hard-pressed to make a dime. News Article Monday, July 5th 2010, 9:48am EDT What do the iPad and Tablet Computers Mean for Search? The iPad. Surrounded by hype, adored by some, denigrated by others. Like the iPhone before it, the iPad is a category igniter -- it won't end up being the dominant product in its category in terms of sales volumes, but as the poster boy of tablet computing it has drawn attention and media coverage, which has promoted the device category to the public. However, it's first to market -- and as an iPad user myself, I'm beginning to glimpse how the device will have an impact on search and digital strategies going forward. Here are my thoughts so far. News Article Monday, July 5th 2010, 9:48am EDT Beware of cold call scammers pushing rogue antivirus. Malware-pushing scammers appear to be stepping up their use of telephone-based pitches, resulting in an increase in reports from the UK of high-pressure cold calls designed to trick people into installing rogue antivirus products and other nasties. Over the past few weeks, at least two people close to The Reg — including reporter Bill Ray, who has seen his share of scams — have received the dire warnings that their PCs are riddled with malware that can be purged with just a few clicks directed by the person on the other end. On Friday, antivirus provider Eset UK, citing an increase in the calls, warned computer users to remain vigilant. News Article Monday, July 5th 2010, 9:47am EDT Google issues fix for hacked YouTube. Google has plugged the hole hackers used Sunday morning to festoon YouTube videos with off-color pop-ups and adult-site redirects, according to a news outlet. Hackers took advantage of a cross-site scripting vulnerability that enabled them to insert code onto the popular video site's viewer-comments pages, IDG News Service said in a report. The hackers apparently had it in for Justin Bieber, focusing on clips related to the teen pop star, who's set to appear tonight on an NBC television celebration of the Fourth of July and who's reportedly one of the most popular attractions on YouTube. News Article Monday, July 5th 2010, 9:46am EDT Democrats push for new Internet sales taxes. The halcyon days of tax-free Internet shopping will, if Rep. Bill Delahunt gets his way, soon be coming to an abrupt end. Delahunt, a Massachusetts Democrat, introduced a bill on Thursday that would rewrite the ground rules for Internet and mail order sales by eliminating the option for many Americans to shop over the Internet without paying state sales taxes. At the moment, Americans who shop over the Internet from out-of-state vendors usually aren't required to pay sales taxes. Californians buying books from Amazon.com or cameras from Manhattan's B&H Photo, for example, won't be required to cough up the sales taxes that they would if shopping at a local mall. News Article Monday, July 5th 2010, 9:45am EDT 10 Copywriting Tips for SEO and PPC. This article provides helpful information for any copywriter trying to adjust to working with an SEO/SEM agency. 1. Write for your audience first, then search engines. Crossing brand communication and sales driven goals with manipulating search engine algorithms is not a process which involves any comprimise. Firstly write from a sales perspective, then tweak your copy until it meets keyword density requirements. News Article Monday, July 5th 2010, 9:40am EDT South African Porn Bill on hold. There has been no major headway in finalising the proposed South African Pornographic Bill. The South Africa Law Reform Commission (LRC) is conducting research to determine how the South African Pornographic Bill should be implemented, a process that could take up to 18 months. Bayanda Mzoneli, media and parliamentary liaison officer for the Department of Home Affairs, says the deputy minister Malusi Gigaba requested guidance from the LRC in September 2009 on how best to ensure that TV, mobile phones, and the Internet can be included in the classification dispensation to protect children. News Article Monday, July 5th 2010, 9:39am EDT iTunes App Store accounts hacked. In what's clearly been a busy weekend for hackers, reports are appearing that there has been suspicious activity over at the iTunes App Store. Users are reporting that unauthorized purchases are appearing on their accounts - purchases of book applications from Vietnamese developer Thuat Nguyen. Most of these are rather poor-quality Manga titles. At one point, the high volume of sales propelled Nguyen's apps to take over 40 of the top 50 book app slots in the store. "I recently checked my credit card account activity online and found the same pattern described throughout this thread. Unauthorized iTunes charges that, for me, came out to about $188," wrote one user on the MacRumours Forum. News Article Monday, July 5th 2010, 9:38am EDT Industry Veteran Shawn Ricks Dead at 46. Veteran performer/director Shawn Ricks, who appeared in more than 180 adult movies and directed more than 80 of them, was found dead on Saturday, June 26, of self-inflicted wounds. He would have been 47 on Aug. 3. Ricks' career in adult began in in 1993, ironically appearing in the movie Alex Jordan's First Timers 1. (Jordan herself committed suicide just 15 years ago today.) Though he worked for most of the major production companies, Ricks rarely had starring roles in his movies, but until his final hardcore scene in 2001 in Heatwave's Doin' Da Nasty 3, he was considered a reliable cocksman, and he continued to direct features until well into 2005. News Bytes Friday, July 2nd 2010, 12:08pm EDT Storm delays oil capture vessel. News Article Friday, July 2nd 2010, 12:05pm EDT Anyone interested in Sex.com will find an eager seller for the right price. The domain name, considered to be the Internet's most valuable, is now on the market, domain broker Sedo announced Thursday. Sedo is peddling the hot domain name on behalf of its client and current owner, Escom, which scooped it up in 2006 for an estimated $14 million. Along with the domain name, two related trademark registrations are also included. Escom CEO Del Anthony said he chose to sell the domain through Sedo because of its experience brokering high-value domain names and its global network of clients. Anthony said he believes Sedo, short for Search Engine for Domain Offers, will make sure Escom receives a price for Sex.com that reflects its value. "It is an extremely rare opportunity that a domain name of this caliber becomes available for sale", Kathy Nielsen, director of sales at Sedo, said in a statement. "Short, descriptive domains are an amazing marketing vehicle. The sale of Sex.com presents potential buyers with a once in a lifetime opportunity." News Article Friday, July 2nd 2010, 12:05pm EDT The Man Who Would Be the Dot-XXX King. The Internet has made Stuart Lawley a wealthy man. In 1999 he got rich by taking a British Internet service provider public. The London Sunday Times has named him one of the 1,000 richest people in Britain. Now he's poised to make his next fortune selling Internet addresses to pornographers. Late last month the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an international body that manages Web addresses around the world, gave preliminary approval for Lawley's application to be the sole registry of Internet domains that end in dot-xxx. News Article Friday, July 2nd 2010, 12:04pm EDT Extreme porn now illegal in Scotland. If you thought you could hide your extreme porn stash in a secluded location north of the border – think again. For this week, the Scottish Parliament finally fell into line with its English counterpart south of the border, passing laws - included within the Criminal Justice Bill - making it a criminal offence to possess images that were extreme and pornographic in nature. Like the English law on this topic, passed in May 2008, the Scottish law will focus on images that are realistic, pornographic and of an extreme nature. In addition, however, the Scottish law adds an extra clause, bringing within this Bill images which are believed to depict "rape or other non-consensual penetrative sexual activity". News Article Friday, July 2nd 2010, 12:02pm EDT Porn Deserves Special Handling in Entirely New Domains. It looks like the Powers That Assign are finally giving the green light to a red-light district for the web: the .xxx top-level domain. At long last, after years of wheeling, dealing, squealing and peeling, nothing’s going to change. Various companies will dutifully add the entire domain to blocker programs with names like KiddySafe Web Sanitizer Plus Bluenose Edition, and that’s about it. It’s not like Pepsi is going to launch a new adults-only, porn-flavored soda just to utilize this new webspace. There’s been some talk of sending all current porn sites out onto a Trail of Bodily Fluids That I’m Not Sure What They Are But Not Tears and marching them forcibly into the new domain, but for reasons best explained by those with mouths frothier than mine, that’s not going to happen and it wouldn’t change much if it did. However, it’s nice that we’ve reached the point where there are public arenas designed specifically for porn. I think this is a trend that should be extended and thrust into the civic sphere repeatedly and with great gusto. It’s a hard task, but once we’ve got it in hand innuendo innuendo innuendo anyhow. Here are some other public arenas that could use their own porno-geography. News Article Friday, July 2nd 2010, 12:02pm EDT What do the iPad and Tablet Computers Mean for Search? The iPad. Surrounded by hype, adored by some, denigrated by others. 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