This. As an avid porn user, I've been telling one of my friend who's in the business of recommendation engine to "pornify his business" for profit.
So much talent, data-mining has been spent on the problem of recommending what product you should also look at Amazon.com from the page you on, what Netflix film you should queue up next and what song you should listen to next according to the 512 acoustic attributes of the current one. Forgot all that, I want the next best clip to watch based on - one of the most frequently pursued and unacknowledged male (and female) activity on the Internet.
Data is all there. Tagging is categorized to the T on porntube sites by the actor/actress, genre, ethnicity and different acts depicted. Aggregator sites are already out there so all someone needs to do is build an aggregator site that plots out the user "interaction" graph from one clip to the next and make correlations. Next a snazzy Pandora interface where you could skip (unlimited times) to the next video, or show multiple preview of video's that you could skip to; or maybe make it social like turntable.fm where multiple people could vote to rock their socks off to a clip or not and see how long people in a particular room last... the possibilities are endless in pornification of the interwebz
> Data is all there. Tagging is categorized to the T on porntube sites by the actor/actress, genre, ethnicity and different acts depicted.
I looked into doing this.
The problem is that all of the popular tube sites have bad data especially in the tag section. People put up videos with the most searched on tags, even if the content doesn't match.
Actress/Actor data is a joke on many sites---being a wild guess at best especially for asian actresses.
Still you could take what they have and make it easier to search through. There's some movement on that front in the niches--like hentai, but none on the main stream sites.
One thing to worry about in recommendation engines (which is why they're so conservative on the big sites) is that users are enthusiastic about their particular niche but nothing else, and unlike in say Netflix--there's a real possibility of showing miscategorized guro to someone doing a vanilla search.
As a startup in the adult space I know there are lots of opportunities in adult...especially since the industry is going through a huge transition. As much as people love to say how porn brings innovation, that's not the case anymore. In the beginning it was way too easy for many of these porn sites to make money. Basically you just had to stick up a thumbnail gallery and a payment page and money would come in.
However, now as free porn is prolific on the internet many of these webmasters don't know what to do... so not that much innovation going on. If you can bring in good tech people there's no doubt they could kick butt. That's what we're trying to do, but just being in adult makes people look at you funny. Something that comes with the territory.
I really dislike it when people come up with terms like gamification and now pornification. Guess what? They all are under the same branch of psychological principles: appealing to our intrinsic desires and biological instincts. It's psychology 101. Dopamines fire when we get rewards (gamification). Dopamines fire when we see a naked attractive person of opposite sex. This ain't no disruptive breakthrough here.
I think the innovation in using words like that is to take a concept that might require sentences to explain and distill it into one word. I agree there isn't necessarily a disruptive breakthrough, but I think the concept is now more easily distilled to those not in the know. Gotta wonder if we're going to see companies specializing in the pornification of things now though.
We saw and liked fiverr, but we didn't want to do just a clone site of it since we felt they had the market pretty cornered. We'd just be a "me too" player. Looking around we realized there wasn't a good system similiar to fiverr for adult. That's when we decided to test it and see if there was a market. We've been surprised.
Pornification has been going for some time, it just hasn't been well publicized (since mainstream tech news doesn't really cover porn unless there's something crazy going on). Youtube / youporn is a great example of one. In addition the site gamecrush.com is very similar to the adult webcams sites that are up. They added the twist where models can't be nude and they play video games with customers.
I do think there will be much more prostitution in the future, especially in the so-called developed countries, especially among otherwise/former middle class people. Partly because of the inhibition-lowering effects of the Internet, partly because of the greater communication and market-making opportunities enabled by the Internet, and partly because of the increased economic pressure put on otherwise working class people caused by globalization, and again, by the Internet. In short, a greater percentage of people will choose to, or perhaps feel are forced to, engage in sexual acts in exchange for money. Even if just "webcam entertainment". I'm betting it will happen anyway.
So much talent, data-mining has been spent on the problem of recommending what product you should also look at Amazon.com from the page you on, what Netflix film you should queue up next and what song you should listen to next according to the 512 acoustic attributes of the current one. Forgot all that, I want the next best clip to watch based on - one of the most frequently pursued and unacknowledged male (and female) activity on the Internet.
Data is all there. Tagging is categorized to the T on porntube sites by the actor/actress, genre, ethnicity and different acts depicted. Aggregator sites are already out there so all someone needs to do is build an aggregator site that plots out the user "interaction" graph from one clip to the next and make correlations. Next a snazzy Pandora interface where you could skip (unlimited times) to the next video, or show multiple preview of video's that you could skip to; or maybe make it social like turntable.fm where multiple people could vote to rock their socks off to a clip or not and see how long people in a particular room last... the possibilities are endless in pornification of the interwebz