“When it comes to the BlackBerry, the mobile web has several forces behind it. RIM is constantly trying to improve the BlackBerry browser experience, and they’re making good progress. Third party browsers such as Opera are gaining incredible popularity in the BlackBerry community and are helping move the mobile internet experience closer to the desktop experience. The upcoming Skyfire browser boasts being able to provide your BlackBerry with all the functionality that the desktop can. So what, if any, impact will the adult entertainment industry have on BlackBerry web browsing?

I sat down with the owner of Pinota.com, an adult entertainment site for BlackBerry to talk about the BlackBerry web experience and how it pertains to adult entertainment.”

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Pinota began as a hacked together personal image gallery program I wrote for the web so that I could view the images I uploaded to my personal web site.  Each image was resized to fit my Blackberry Curve’s screen and I even rotated some of the picture to maximize the use of the screen and eliminate having to scroll to see the entire image.  From this point I realized how much fun this had become and I really wanted to begin publishing my own adult content site with this new software and thus Pinota was born.  On a side note I chose the name Pinota because it was in reference to pin-ups over the air.  I actually didn’t know it mean to stack in Swedish which I think is an interesting consequence.

As one of the many things we decided early on was that we wanted as many people to enjoy the site as possible.  One of the biggest hurdles we were faced with was the browser settings which we had absolutely no control over.  It didn’t help that the default settings was low image resolution.  Then I discovered mobile flash.  Mobile flash is the same technology used in the blackberry themes with the backgrounds that switch or that have planes or fishes moving across your screen.  Using this technology I built what I believe is the worlds first all flash web site for the Blackberry. By using flash, it gave us the ability to show high resolution images, place objects anywhere on the screen, do a slideshow and enable short cut keys for easy viewing. It also enabled us to server always changing dynamic content to the site without daily administration on our part.

When we launched the beta program for Pinota we offered over 100 free accounts and thus attracted over 15,000 people to signup within a month.   I had not anticipated this level of growth or the diversity of devices to emerge and it was defiantly a challenging beta period.  For example, as a Canadian CDMA user I had not even considered the wi-fi browser to view Pinota.  In retrospect this should have been part of our test cases and we were able to resolve it but it threw me in a development spin for about a week during an already hectic beta period.  In the end and with the help of the beta members we were able to iron out the final issues and launch Pinota in late November.  Thanks to those initial beta members, Pinota’s launch was a success.

Unfortunately the steep learning curve did not end at our launch date and to add to the new influx of technical issues, we had a content supplier dry up.  This was a dark period for Pinota as we had difficulty launching content on time and helping people with their questions and concerns.  I know that we were not at our best and sometimes did not deliver as we had always promised especially with respect to videos.In the end we decided to do away with the videos and concentrate on the image sets.  It was a tough decision to nix the videos but since the quality was so grainy and poor and the content available was so … well poor we were left with little choice.  I decided that it was better to get the images right 100% then to server both images and videos at less than a passing grade.

Thus I began rebuilding Pinota in March and launched the latest version of our site in May.  With the new version we have tried to address issues like the uniqueness between devices and error messages on broken images.  We also added new features like the slide show and automatic content releases for daily deployment.

Our membership has also grown 10 times faster in the month of May than previous months and is directly attributed to our free trial viewable at http://www.pinota.com/trial .  We also continue the tradition of no referral ads on the mobile members site and unlike other sites, we are 100% committed to protecting our members privacy information.  We have also implemented a new way for Blackberry bloggers and fan sites to earn 25% from all membership sales through our new Pinota E-Cash Affiliate program.

To me though, the most exciting part of the new Pinota is we are offering other content holders the ability to brand Pinota for their own content.  The same system I use to publish Pinota is fully available to anybody else wanting to sell content to subscribers and there is still lots of space in the genre.  Even though Pinota focuses on straight, lesbian and racial sets and some sex scenes, we do not have any Gay, bondage or any knish fetish content sets.  So there is lots of room for this kind of content to become available to other enterprising individuals. We are also looking for any Adult entertainers with establish web sites looking to publish their own branded Pinota for their members.  As you can see we have plenty of room to grow.

What is next in store for Pinota?  Well now that we have settled the image issues and are up and serving over 200,000 images daily to our members, we are free to concentrate on the issue of quality videos and how to serve them best to the variety of different devices that view Pinota every day.  As some carriers have different download caps, we will need to overcome this as well as the variety of different screen sizes and resolutions.  So look forward to a Pinota video application coming soon to your Blackberry device.

Resell Pinota and make 25% commission on every new membership you sell!

As you know PINOTA is the top Adult Entertainment Network for the Blackberry.  We’ve had quite a run of success since we launched in December and now we would like to share it with you.

If you have a web site or blog, why not signup to become a Pinota E-Cash Affiliate and make 25% on every membership signup from your site.  That’s more than you’ll make from your Google Ads!  We have found that the most successful links have been from Blog Entries so if your worried you’ll be seen as promoting Adult Content then no worries, your blog entrie is just journalism right?!

You can signup at http://www.pinota.com/affiliate.php where you will be given an account and a link that you can post where ever you like on your site and you will begin to see returns right away.

Our affiliate program is handles 100% by our favorite third party account handler CCBill which means that your 25% is taken from the sale directly and never handled by us.  This way you know you will recieve your commission with no hassles!

Signup for the E-Cash affiliate program before May 31, 2009 and recieve 100 free 1 year accounts to give away to your membership!  Contact webmaster@pinota.com for more details.

Let us help your Blog or Site pay you back for all your hard work!

Join the Pinota E-Cash Affiliate Program today.

• Image Access begins with details instead of a list.  To be honest, the list thing was so HTML and we’re all about the Blackberry Flash as you know!
• Better interaction with touchscreen devices.  So far the Storm is the only touchscreen device from RIM but if that ever changes, we’re ready!
• Turn on the Picture Set slideshow and let Pinota do all the work for you.  Either type (e) or if your on the Storm press the top half of your screen to toggle on the slideshow.  Also exclusively for Storm users have the ability to cradle your Storm while viewing your slideshow.  Leaving both your hands for other things…
• South Paws can now rotate the screen and it stays rotated!  I guess this one should have been there all along.

Oh wait, I almost forgot the best part…

Automatic Content Release!

New Content Daily!

…all right, that’s the stuff.  We’ve completly automated our release process which means you get timely updates of new material on Wednesday for the Pinota Hump Day release and daily with the Pinota refresher release.

We know it’s all about the content so if you have any suggestions as to what you might like to see please let us know.

Happy BB’ing!

• Updated interface to include a menu and easier navigation
• Updated PC interfaces to give you better control of what you want to see on your device and the ability to download a release via PC.
• User profiles for better access to older releases and the ability to save favorites
• Daily updates as opposed to weekly ones

Let me know your comments or suggestions here on this post.

Happy Holidays!

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Now that we are officially live let us be the first to say welcome!  For those of you who haven’t previewed or purchased the site yet you must do so immediately.  Our personal favorite are the videos!  How fantastic to have a little diversion during that long meeting or commute on the bus, and let’s be honest who doesn’t love porn?!?  All we can say is having a little porn in your pocket is delightful!

We’re hoping to bring to light a few topics of interest on our little blog and discuss not only the obvious but a few tricks of the trade to get you going.  You know, a little of this and that, like a grab bag if you will of sexy stuff.  From an interesting article to suggestions on gifts (of various kinds) and reader polls we’re excited to get started!  Here’s our first question of the week, are you a righty of lefty?  We know exactly what you’re thinking, but no, Missy and I want to know do you view your porn holding your Bold, Curve, Storm or Pearl in the right or left hand?  Comment below to let us know…

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Maggie & Missy

Announcing live and luscious the launch of Pinota, the first and only Adult Entertainment Network for Blackberry Users!   We have extensively tested the site on many varieties of Blackberries and want to thank all beta testers for their help and dedication to the site.

To celebrate our site launch, we are offering

1 Year Subscription $59.95 $39.95 per year **

Enter the Pinota Adult Entertainment Network
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For a tempting tib-bit visit http://www.pinota.com/view/ to preview our Image Gallery.

Each week enjoy 200 new pictures and 1 video set with your subscription. Mid week Wednesday Hump Day never looked so good!

We have over 350 images and 10 videos available today! All Blackberry Models are supported including the Bold, Curve, Perl and the New Blackberry Storm.  This “Storm the Porn” sale price is only available for Blackberry users from now until November 30, 2008.

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As for the Beta, I can’t tell you much about the freebies yet but look forward to the weekend for further information.  Also good news for some of you who have been wondering about when you’ll be selected.  We still have room to squeeze a few more in so look forward to an email coming late Friday Night if you’re selected!

See you soon!

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