See the Future of the Voyeur Site with Toshiba - by Eric J. White, aka EmporerEJ
While I was walking through the exhibits at Internext, I saw the familiar "Toshiba" logo on a sign. In our industry, anytime you see a "mainstream" company exhibiting openly at an adult event it gets more than a passing glance. They were positioned off by themselves, prominently at the end of the row. As I approached, I expected to see a company name as a dealer of Toshiba products. But to my surprise, the salesman handed me an official Toshiba corporate business card. I mentioned my surprise to him and said, "Toshiba the electronics company is actually here openly exhibiting their new camera product at an adult show?"

Will RSS Overtake E-mail? - by Theresa Lütge-Smith
Many Internet pundits and researchers are thinking the unthinkable - that e-mail may be on its way out as the current most effective source of content delivery and publishing over the Internet. It seems like only yesterday that e-mail was touted as the Internet 'killer app' - the ultimate means of communication and a cheap, effective marketing tool. But spam and virus scripts have considerably dented the shining light of e-mail functionality, and many users are beginning to look for an alternative to e-mail to facilitate smoother online communication and a spam-free transmission of knowledge and information. The answer, some claim, lies with RSS news feeds...

The Future is Now - A.I. Joins the Adult 'Net Workforce - by Kath Blackwell
Ever wish you could clone yourself? It may seem as if the next logical progression would be from from virtual cybersex, to artificially intelligent superhumans working as assistants to webmasters, but believe it or not A.I. is just beginning to make big breakthroughs in the adult Web. According to the creator of the virtual beings at SexyPimpbot.com, programmer Monica Lamb says that her A.I. Virtual Humans work well "for any situation where a company or individual needs a truly innovative solution..."

Making Money with PHP - by Rinat Gersch, Zend.com
The dynamic PHP-based elements of an adult site are often the most mission-critical. Not only does performance affect your operating costs, it also reflects directly on the end-user experience. Whether PHP is used to serve member's pages, in the sign-up process or in the user tracking system, its speed is directly correlated with the bottom line. This article lets the experts tell their tale. Read how adult companies use PHP and Zend to cut down on operational costs while significantly improving their programs, and make more $$ for themselves and their partners...

Securing Your Future with DRM - by Christopher Levy
The Adult Internet Industry is a very similar business - and larger brands devouring market share. Like the Music business, the Adult Internet industry stands to suffer from widespread theft and piracy. Last year I was quoted in ABCNews.com as saying it is a billion dollar industry. I think it's more. Much, much more, and its primary product is one that is easily stolen or re-shared. Since the events of September 11th put this country on a security binge, DRM has been a buzzword in the press and media, which is not to say DRM is not an effective security product...

The Modern Imperative - by Theresa Lütge-Smith
The tools and connectivity of the digital age give us a way to easily obtain, share and act on information. Standard hardware combines with standard software platforms, creating economies of scale that make powerful computing solutions available to companies of all sizes. However, this new Web work style requires a well organized digital infrastructure that ensures an integrated flow of information to the right part of the organization at the right time; enables a company to perceive and react to its environment; senses competitor challenges and customer needs...

Broadband and the Future of Networked Computing -
by Theresa Lütge-Smith
The Nielsen/NetRatings recently reported that broadband usage reached the critical 50 percent benchmark at the start of this year. People with high-speed connections accounted for 51 percent of the 2.3 billion hours that Americans spent online during January. The important aspect that these statistics highlight is the balance between narrowband and broadband, which has been tipped in favor of broadband usage. This boils down to the fact that people who use the Internet from high-speed connections spent more time online than people with traditional phone lines. This is important news...

The Marriage of a Coder and a Webmaster - by Susanna Strandberg
All sorts of scripts have become available to webmasters to make their lives much easier. Timesaving devices that truly work always fascinate me. Therein lies the catch 22. I have not seen too many scripts that did not have a catch 22. A script can build 1000 sites a day, but you have to hand submit them because there is no safe and effective method for the script to handle that. A script can make 1000 thumbnail gallery pages and auto submit them, but you have to contend with the thumbnail gallery sites that dislike auto submitters and constantly move their forms...

The Portable Database - by Tim Schaefer
Last time I wrote about a feature of Perl that you can use to set up Perl to behave just like a web browser in your Perl program, using the LWP modules. This time around I want to extend that concept and show you the power of LWP again, using it for database connectivity with your website. I also want to talk to you about building your membership database with the MySQL database engine on Linux. If you aren't familiar with this little gem of software you should be. When you combine the two, Perl and MySQL, you have just about everything you need to building scalable databases for your websites...

Using LWP Modules with Perl - by Tim Schaefer
Have you ever wanted to be able to pull something off of one Web site and use it in a program for your Web site? The only way it seems possible is to have some kind of macro-type program doing repetitive tasks through a web browser, but maybe, just maybe if you had a program that would act like a web browser you would be able to do much more than simply play keystrokes. Macro programs have their uses but can often lead to a lot of frustration and extra work...

Printer-Friendly Pages using PHP/JavaScript - by TDavid, TDScripts.com
I must admit I still print things out, and store them for manual reference. The Web reality of making a printer-friendly version of every webpage and leaving them all static on your website, just isn't very practical in the long run (you'd have to update the same page twice). So, let's use some creative scripting so we can simply pass a few variables to a script, and dynamically produce a printer-friendly webpage, or allow surfers to print a particular section of the page in printer-friendly format. I will also demonstrate how to combine JavaScript and PHP to make a useful script...

Make Security Job-Number-One with Your ASP
Due to the nature of the ASP model, security considerations are more complex and even more critical than with the in-house case. Under the ASP model, software applications are installed in a remote facility that is basically outside of the customer's control, and access to the hosted resources is provided exclusively through the Internet. This differs significantly from the traditional model where software is licensed and installed on your own machines, in your own facility, and accessed through your own network, protected by whatever security you provide yourself...

Advanced Rollovers - by Greg Mansfield
There is a lot more than one way to construct a rollover; when working with Dreamweaver, you can create some really interesting rollovers even if you have minimal knowledge of javascript (javascript is the language used in html to produce many dynamic effects). This tutorial will show you how to create rollovers for images other than the one with the MouseOver attribute. Before you start, you will need 4 images, placed into an images folder where your html document is. They don't need to look exactly like mine, just make a button with a rollover and an extra image with a rollover...

Why Software Innovations Work - by ToteMach, TotemCash.com
Risk takers in the adult industry are those who are prepared to do something outside the box, in the hope that their difference will make them stand out from the crowd. That's no easy feat in any industry, especially the adult online biz, however, products such as 3D adult games, virtual sex videos and real-life strippers on computer desktops are doing just that...