Porn invades Video iPod

Hearing the news about blue content on the Video iPod didn't shock me. When pondering the true potential impact of a new platform, I often think about how adult entertainment will make use of it. I've done this for podcasting, Ajax programming, content delivery via PSP, and several other types of information. Constantly high demand, easy platform translation and easy distribution make the dark arts the perfect litmus test about how data can be produced, distributed and consumed through emerging multimedia platforms.

Quite often many new formats are embraced and exploited to the fullest by companies out of the San Fernando Valley, giving them real-world legitimacy. Adam Curry projects the translation of adult material as a driving force for video podcasting. I even predicted that porn star podcasting would be a killer app within time-shifted digital audio distributed via RSS (which surprisingly, no one's capitalized on yet).

The same categories of data - porn, religion and business - are going to drive portable video (and multimedia in general) as they did for podcasting, like with directory services like Podcast Alley.