YNOT – The picture for online ad sales seems to be growing brighter, and the NY Times is reporting that display ad revenue for a variety of online advertising sources is once again on the rise. That doesn’t mean good times are here for signature news sites like NYTimes.com,...

YNOT – Jonathan Miller is a chief digital officer at News Corp., and when he took the stage at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, he had a simple message for why MySpace.com lost its position as the dominant social networking destination on the Internet.“I think that what...

GÄVLE, Sweden – Surfing porn is one of the 10 fastest-growing internet activities in Sweden, a new study has revealed. Although the percentage of Swedes who admit visiting pornographic websites “regularly” has remained steady at about 4 percent, the percentage of Swedish Web...

YNOT – The 16th Eurowebtainment trade fair is just two weeks away from its opening day at the Hotel Marriott in Vienna, Austria on the 4th of November. The show is expecting high participation with attendees from at least 20 different countries.“Never before did we have so many...

NEW YORK — An organization hoping to provide a reliable and ethical source of funding for LGBT civil rights initiatives worldwide will ask the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to create a Top-Level Domain devoted to the community.During next week’s internet...

CHICAGO – A federal judge this week dismissed Cook County, Ill., Sheriff Tom Dart’s lawsuit attempting to force online classified ads site Craigslist to close its “adult services” section.The lawsuit, filed in March, alleged the website facilitates prostitution and other sex...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Center for Sex and Culture will host an evening of history and gay fine-art sexual photography from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Mark I Chester Studio in San Francisco. The evening is free and open to adults of all genders, orientations and sexual...

YNOT – According to some early reports from Internet tech circles, Microsoft is preparing to announce a new deal with Twitter and Facebook that will bring real-time updates of tweets and status into Bing.com search results. If announced as expected at today’s Web 2.0 conference...

YNOT – Meghan McCain, the daughter of former presidential hopeful and current United States Senator John McCain, found herself at the center of controversy after she posted what seems to many like a rather tame self-portrait of herself on Twitter. The image in question did show...

BERLIN – Candida Royalle, Maria Beatty, Petra Joy and Shine Louise Houston received the first Feminist Porn Film Awards Saturday during a gala celebration at the Hackeches Hof Theater in Berlin. Founded by Laura Meritt PhD, a sexologist and owner of the sex shop and sexual...