http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=39598The World Wide Web was hand-built by amateurs - pages and pages of personal reflections, family photos, weblogs, and restaurant recommendations. People are passionate to share their hobbies with friends and strangers, and despite the commercialization of the Internet, the core philosophy of freely sharing information remains a guiding principle of the development of web technologies.
Mo' Smut in Japan - Porn and ProstitutionPeople will use any available technology to get off. If possible, they will use technology to get off with each other. Japan has more advanced mobile-phone technology than most of the world, and their cellular sexuality has kept pace. The Japanese mobile Internet is popular after midnight, showing that people might be skipping the pay-per-view or the newsstand in favor of finding fantasies at their fingertips.
Commissioned by a company in the adult video business, the site followed basic Japanese dating site architecture: reading messages on the bulletin board would cost 10 yen, replying to messages would cost between 30-50 yen. But only men paid - women participated for free. "I don't know how they were advertising!" he exclaimed, but within one week of launching, they had over 50,000 subscribers; by the end of the first month, over 100,000. He assumed it was through their adult videos and magazines; many dating sites are infamous for their overuse of "meiwaku mail" - mobile phone spam.
