Trust Fleshbot to blog the first Web 2.0 porn site, Juxel NSFW, before it finishes launching. Now the Juxel web team is scrambling to get the rest of its tags 'n' feeds 'n' whatnot in place now that we're all driving traffic to them.
Juxel promises:
And in fact, so far, the Juxel blog has a lot more to do with tech than with porn.
It reminds me of something one of the panelists said at the blog Internext seminar in January. He talked about creating profitable blogs with no original content – just feed aggregates, with ads alongside. The rest of us shook our heads at that, believing that the only way a porn blog can stand out enough to bring traffic and repeat traffic and cross links is to be original.
Juxel combines both approaches. The front door displays the links, automatically added by the feeds.
The blog gives you a sense of the humans behind the feed. For example, the tech lead is a woman, the team – which might just be two people, Anna and Mark – is thrilled at the attention they're getting since Fleshbot's post, and they are fond of exclamation points.
Thus, the site has fresh content, constantly updating, that no one has to babysit once it's working. But it also has original content. The blog adds that personal touch that makes you feel like you have a relationship with these people, and that they're hard-working folks just like you who are putting their time and skills into building a community, not just slapping more porn links onto the internet.
I've grown rather fond of Anna and Mark now that I've read their blog, even though I'm not all that interested in – yawn – more porn.
