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I know a lot of the people at Kink.com (they're a solid part of the local SF tech scene, regardless of what people think of the content) and they have some inte
by dotBen 16y ago
I know a lot of the people at Kink.com (they're a solid part of the local SF tech scene, regardless of what people think of the content) and they have some interesting technology across the board.
However I wouldn't actually use their websites as good examples of best-practice in this vertical. Having disrupted the traditional DVD-based content houses, Kink.com is now getting disrupted themselves a little by the 'tube sites' and they really are not on top of this new era for that industry.
The main issue for video sites - of all content genres - is discovery. The author's premis about 'drawing in the viewer' doesn't really allude to this greater issue. YouTube doesn't really do a great job of discovery - relying only similarity clustering and string search.
I'm not going to link to sites from here, but there are a number of adult content tube sites that have some really quite excellent taxonomy, categorization and deeper search functions - surfacing the content that each viewer wants is a unique experience for each person.
Many of their video player experiences and social features are excellent too - ones that YouTube should really take a look at (in fact I know of YouTubers who gone to work for these sites).
For me, the tube world is yet another example of where the adult website industry is once again leading the R&D in the space.
- davidmathers 16y agothere are a number of adult content tube sites that have some really quite excellent taxonomy, categorization and deeper search functions - surfacing the content that each viewer wants is a unique experience for each person Many of their video player experiences and social features are excellent too Please name names.
- dotBen 16y agoResponding to this cos it got a high vote... I don't feel comfortable linking to such sites on Hacker News or really talking about them here in any more depth. Feel free to contact me offline from HN if you want me to suggest some leading examples. (details in my profile) UPDATE: turns out the original author discovered all of these sites via my partner Violet Blue (http://guerillashowrunner.com/2011/02/why-a-good-porn-site-makes-our-web-show-pages-look-like-amateurish-crap/#comment-293 http://guerillashowrunner.com/2011/02/why-a-good-porn-site-m...) -- so the circle is complete. Lol.
- petercooper 16y agoOne that comes to my mind is YouPorn. It's not as famous as some of the others but really seems to get the similarity matching and taxonomy stuff right.
- jamongkad 16y ago> content tube sites that have some really quite excellent taxonomy, categorization and deeper search functions - surfacing the content that each viewer wants is a unique experience for each person. Fascinating what sort of sites have this feature?
- DarkShikari 16y agodeeper search functions The "booru" style of tag-based image sites have been incredibly successful in this regard. Most of them primarily focus on anime-style content, but I haven't seen anyone else get even close to the level of effective user-driven tagging that they have. Take Danbooru, the most successful such site, for example. Do you want an image of a long-haired character from the Touhou game series wearing a ribbon while involved in a hug? You can do that (search "long_hair touhou ribbon hug") and get over 200 results, all relevant. A large part of this is due to effective moderation in order to keep tags consistent. Now here's the most intriguing part: how does Danbooru make money? They charge for a premium account -- which allows you to search with more than 2 keywords at once. Yes, that's right -- they monetize based on little more than the power of their tagging system. This shows just how important tag-intersection search can be -- and doubly so for porn.