Even Porn Gets Self Promotion Via Apple WWDC (AAPL)

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Everyone loves to follow Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), particularly ahead of its big investor and developer conferences.  And if you track the top website rankings of the top 100 and top 1,000 overall websites by popularity, you know that if it isn’t everyone loving porn it is a large percentage of the online population.  Sometimes the old notion of “No PR Is Bad PR” might not apply.  But maybe it does.  You probably won’t find Steve Jobs or other Apple executives at this event, but a company called iPorn is hosting an “un-Official After Party” for next week’s Apple iPhone World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC).

The Worldwide Developer Conference itself is taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco from June 8 to June 10.  This iPorn event isn’t taking place there, and we aren’t going to publish anything else on it either.

It is no surprise, but skin sells online as well.  This iPorn group claims to be one of the fastest-growing iPhone user communities on the web.  The group also plans to announce the release of the new iPorn mobile site with near-perfect resolution playback to the iPhone and iPod over a 2G, 3G, or WiFi network.  iPorn is actually one of the companies that was backed by that venture capital and private investor group called AdultVest that allows individuals, groups, companies, and more to invest in the adult-themed and porn industry.

Sorry for not putting links or locations on this one, but it isn’t exactly the sort of financial news we routinely cover.

Jon C. Ogg
June 4, 2009

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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