Using Distributed Streaming to Serve Gay TV

Distributed Streaming technology, developed by companies such as AdultInternet.TV, makes it possible to stream the highest quality media to huge audiences with unparalleled scalability and bandwidth efficiencies. Unlike traditional “unicast” servers that send streams directly to each viewer, each viewer instead redirects the stream to one or more downstream viewers using idle upstream bandwidth based on direction from the server. This creates a closely-monitored Distributed Streaming Network that delivers a higher quality, more stable, more adaptable connection while at the same time significantly reducing bandwidth requirements by up to 98%.

My company, AdultInternet.TV, has been using this technology for over a year to serve the worlds first adult internettv station to over 50,000 viewers. Next month, we’ll be launching our first gay channel, which creates an exciting new advertising opportunity for gay webmasters. We’ll be streaming gay content 24/7, and it will be 100% free, paid for by commercial advertisements.

In many ways, AdultInternet.TV is like a real TV station, with a lineup that includes reality shows, sitcoms, news, and cartoons, except with an adult twist. However, unlike a real TV station, the system is completely automated.  Software inserts the commercials, which are tracked by database, so there’s no one in a booth cueing up bumpers, advertisements, and shows. We even had to invent a lot of stuff that no one has done before, like real-time tracking for advertisers, and our own wireless transmission system for live streaming.

Adultinternet.TV LLC was founded by Dan Gale and Mark Newman in 2004. Mark Newman came up with the concept after many years of running adult pay sites, as well as producing content to sell to webmasters. Mark met Dan Gale who was buying and selling content via the web, as well as, running various adult sites. After extensive research and testing to determine the best possible advantage for their advertising clients, they set out to make Adultinternet.TV a reality. And now it is; with over 52,000 members, 150,000 page views a day and over 1000 hours of video watched a day and growing.

We’re also moving towards the concept of becoming a complete adult gateway portal, with free adult personals, free adult reviews, free adult instant messenger, free adult P2P file sharing, and free Adultinternet.TV email account.

If you’re interested in advertising on our new gay channel, you may download our media packet by clicking here.

 Cyberspace Running Out of Room?

About XXXWriterDude Ken Knox is an adult industry insider who has written for a number of industry publications, including Unzipped, Men, Freshmen, Honcho, In Touch for Men, and X-Factor. He is the associate editor at AVN Online magazine, and is the former associate editor of GAYVN.

It’s news that could spell major T-R-O-U-B-L-E for webmasters, but the reports are slowly coming in that all the technological advances made in Internet-related business is quickly eating up real estate space on the World Wide Web. So, while it’s great that smartphones, IPTV and other nifty gadgets connecting to the Net offer additional routes of content distribution for webmasters, such innovations could also spell the downfall of our beloved cyberspace.

Now, in case that’s got any of you folks running in a panic to your ISPs, it should be noted that it’s not the end of the world or anything. Apparently today’s Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) will run out of addresses by about 2014, which gives adult webmasters plenty of time to profit off their content. But it is estimated that sometime within the next 15 to 20 years, there will need to be a massive change-over to the mobile-based IPv6. which will make it much easier for telecommunication providers to offer custome services like ring tones and television.

According to a story published at TechWeb.com, all federal networks will need to be IPv6-compatible by mid 2008, but only 30 percent of ISPs will support it by 2010. That means that there could be stormy waters up ahead for webmasters looking to share content via telecommunications devices.

I’ve always wondered how much space there really is available online, and evidently it’s not an endless supply of real estate. Companies will need to build transition strategies to accomodate IPv6. And while some equipment manufacturers will provide the transition to the IPv6 protocol in routine upgrades, others could possibly charge for the upgrades.

Exactly how this might affect webmasters remains to be seen, but it certainly gives us something to think about in the meantime.

 Dating Software Review

I own licenses from two dating software companies and wanted to briefly comment on one of them. The package I will discuss is provided by AEwebworks.com. I will comment on the others in other threads at some point in the future.

Oh, as a preliminary comment before hand - none of these sites are linked to any affiliate link of mine. In this case if you decide to purchase aeDating, please mention my site http://www.daddiesandcubs.com. They offer a $100 commission on each new sale so it would be greatly appreciated if you mention me.

Aeweb (affectionately called “weirdworks” by some) has been around for quite some time and apparently set the standard and inspired many new companies to provide dating software. Aewebs product is based on PHP/MySQL, is not encrypted, and has a large selection of templates that can be customized. Unfortunately there are no gay templates available at this time, but if you are somewhat familiar with HTML customizations can be made. I have taken their original and previously leading template and customized it for http://www.daddiesandcubs.com. The process was relatively simple albeit time consuming.

I believe that they offer a lot of features with their software and the price is definitely fair based on current market values. Some other software providers advertise a slightly lower rate for their package but charge additional fees to add features such as blogs, galleries, etc. My experience has been that those additional fees either increase the actual rate of the software to what aeWebworks charges, or exceeds it.

aeWebworks offers free lifetime support with their product – but don’t always expect that free support over night. A year ago they underwent a major internal problem with programmers and resolved the matter (presumably by firing them). Their package today is full of features such as a Shoutbox (allows members online to instantly broadcast a message to all), Blogs, and a gallery function that allows members to upload hundreds of pics based on the settings set by the administrator.

When I have been unable to resolve a problem and submitted a report on their private customer forum they have eventually responded and have usually just gone in and corrected the matter. Sometimes that has been the same day, other times my wait has been up to two weeks.

If you are going to get aeWebworks (also known as aeDating) I would suggest that you allow 3-4 weeks to get the initial bugs worked out. Install it, set up several test user accounts and fully test the system. When you encounter a bug, report it to aeWeb through the private customer forum. Give them up to two weeks to respond. I have had the fastest response when I have posted the temporary FTP/MySQL access information and two test user accounts in that same message.