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YNOT – Former journalist Kieren McCarthy will assume executive leadership of the International Foundation for Online Responsibility in April, upon the departure of current Executive Director Joan Irvine. McCarthy has served as the organization’s general manager of public...

YNOT – In the wide world of competitive sports, the players who show no mercy are the ones who rise to the top. That, observers say, is what makes the YNOT Grand Prix a not-to-be-missed, thrill-a-minute ride. “All the top drivers are difficult people with complex personalities,”...

YNOT – Twitter admins on Monday confirmed plans to change the way users log in to the popular micro-blogging spot, in hopes of limiting the kinds of security breaches that compromised 250,000 Twitter accounts last week. Gmail and Facebook already offer a login option using...

YNOT – The mainstream is growing wise to the porn industry’s marketing tactics. We’re surprised it took so long. A flurry of mainstream and adult coverage resulted this week after Pornhub released a statement indicating disbelief that CBS would reject a “clean” Super Bowl ad from...

YNOT – Evil Angel is at it again, debuting a feature film online well before the DVD hits brick-and-mortar store shelves. This time, the advance screening is for Manuel Ferrara’s latest in a continuing series, Evil Anal 17. The French director’s intense, over-the-top hedonistic...

YNOT – To celebrate the new look of its flagship twink website GayLifeNetwork.com, sponsor program Stand Ahead will pay affiliates $50 for every new sign-up they send to the site through Feb. 28. Phil St-Onge, owner of Montreal-based parent company Stunner Media, said the GLN...

By Erika Icon YNOT – With adult entertainment revenues still flat or declining in many quarters, largely due to conditions beyond the control of content producers — piracy, free internet porn and a lackadaisical global economy, to name three — adult companies continually are on...

YNOT – No matter their size, location or market focus, adult industry trade shows tout themselves as venues for “doing business.” In recent years, a significant portion of the business being done seems to have revolved around cementing partnerships and signing merger and...

YNOT – Mitsuko Doll has joined an increasing number of modestly successful webcam girls who are attempting to set themselves apart from the pack by moving into their own digs in cyberspace. Doll, of Korean and Japanese heritage, claims to be an 18-year-old college student in her...