Skype Enters The Phone Sex Business March 8, 2007
Posted by David Kaye in : Business, Adult , 5 commentsSkype rolled out Skype Prime today. The company calls it an “expertise marketplace”: it allows Skype users to register as experts in a particular topic and charge by the minute for their services. This is not the first service of its kind - Keen was doing this as early as 1999 - but it’s also an open secret that by far the most popular kinds of expertise to be delivered in this manner are phone sex and psychic readings. Keen’s homepage title admits as much: “Keen: Psychic Readings, Love and Relationship Advice, Tarot, Astrology, Horoscopes and Therapy”. Ahh, therapy. Beautiful euphemism.
Breaking: Porn No Longer Popular February 23, 2007
Posted by David Kaye in : Adult, Stats , 9 comments
Netimperative reports that in January 2007, search engines accounted for 13.3% of all UK internet visits, while adult traffic comprised a mere 11.5%.
Heather Hopkins, Vice President of Research for Hitwise UK: “Search engines overtook adult websites in October and the lead has been growing ever since. This marks an important point in the maturity of the internet, with mainstream consumer activities overtaking the early attractions of the internet. It indicates that search engines have become the point of entry for the web, used to navigate to specific websites and to search for products and information.”
Whoa. Search engines have become the point of entry for the web and are being used to search for products and information. These and other simiarly banal revelations are available in the full article here.
Hands on with the HeatSeek porn browser July 12, 2006
Posted by David Kaye in : Product Development, Adult , 16 comments
When I heard about this on TechCrunch today, I was immediately intrigued. The adult industry is notorious for a take no prisoners approach to product development - it will have your eyeballs and your wallet, even if it means opening 300 pop-up windows and installing a dialer that calls premium rate numbers in Karachi when you’re not looking.
Great products make business needs dovetail with what the user wants, and HeatSeek nails it expertly.
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