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Written on November 5, 2008 – 3:27 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
“It’s Official” , triumphs the Mozilla blog, “Congratulations to the Mozilla community for reaching this historic milestone”. According to Net Applications, Firefox surpassed 20% worldwide market share. During the week of October 5th, 20 percent of Internet users browsed with the open source browser.
Watch your back Safari
The Firefox browser might steal some market share from Safari, as Apple’s browser will soon lose its greatest advantage for male Mac users. As I mentioned earlier, a friend of mine once told me he uses Safari’s stealth mode for his adult needs. Well, it seems like he can stay within the Firefox environment for that now.
Firefox released a beta version of a Private Browsing feature. Users of Minefield, Mozilla’s test area for new browser innovations, can now activate the “porn mode”. When toggled, it deletes your Web history, user names, passwords, searches, and cookies and bins as soon as you close the window, “effectively making it appear that the session never existed” - writes Josh Lowensohn from Webware.
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Written on November 3, 2008 – 8:41 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
According to a new survey, the number of people who use the Internet to search for porn is down by 50%. In a related story, the number of people who lie when responding to surveys is up by 50%.
- Conan O’Brien
Maybe you have seen the ASCII art generated video clip for AC/DC recently? It is hot on Youtube. Check it out:
Want to impress your friends with some ACSII Art? Use the ASCII ARt generator. Just enter the URL to a photo and within seconds you will have your own ASCII Art photo. This is me (Original photo) in ASCII: (more…)
Written on October 8, 2008 – 9:50 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
This must be the funniest porn video I have ever seen:
Turn up the volume and go full-screen! Thanks to Dutchcowboys.
Written on July 31, 2008 – 11:25 am
Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer
Online piracy is also an issue for the adult video industry, in case you were wondering. Jason Tucker, head of The PAK Group, a new anti-piracy company dedicated to adult content, and president of the content production company Falcon Foto, recently told the industry web site XBIZ (NSFW) that lawsuits against individuals are no longer on the top of their list in the fight against piracy, because they “require ridiculous amounts of resources” yet don’t accomplish much.
Tucker said they’re more likely to start concentrating on adult video sharing sites, or as Tucker puts it: “companies creating locations where the exploitation of stolen works is encouraged”.
He told XBiz:
“We are close to filing a suit against a major tube site, and we will follow that up with a lot more. No one is immune. The big problem I see right now is not outsiders doing this; rather, it is people who purport to be contributing members in our industry. As a result, we know who is doing this, we know where they are, we know where they process transactions, we know where they bank, we know where they host and we know where they live. This means when we come for you, we know how to get you.”
Hat tip to NewTeeVee, which offers some more background information.
Written on June 28, 2008 – 3:04 am
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
What do Polaroid, VHS, and the Internet have in common? They owe a huge part of their success to sex. As Boris once said in the comments on this blog: “Porn is usually the killer app“. He was referring to Qik, the mobile video streaming service that has a lot of porn-related opportunities (The Qik team doesn’t want to take advantage of this though, as they’ll blacklist users who make naughty videos). There’s another company who doesn’t want anything to do with porn, but which WILL profit from it - big time.
Since TIME published an article about the endless porn possibilities the iPhone has - large color AND touch screen, speaker, web access -, Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock has a hard time claiming that Apple will do anything to stop this. But there’s one thing that Bowcock, nor Steve Jobs, can’t control: the users’ browsing adventures. And thus, the solid Safari browser opens the gates to a mobile porn heaven.
Some people get really excited by the thought of a new iPhone and the sex part combined. Not everyone dares to express these fantasies though. Apart from one blogger, Jason Swifter, who wrote “what everyone wants, but is too chicken to say“:
I wish that there was an application that allowed you to undress people by dragging your fingers across the screen and literally dragging it off.
Seems like the iPhone has everything going for its success. It already was a killer app, yet the popularity will multiply now the sex frontier is in sight.
(Via: Bright - Dutch only)
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