Pornification: Turning Instagram into Instaporn (Future of web)

This. As an avid porn user, I've been telling one of my friend who's in the business of recommendation engine to "pornify his business" for profit.<p>So much talent, data-mining has been spent on the problem of recommending what product you should also look at Amazon.com from the page you on, what Netflix film you should queue up next and what song you should listen to next according to the 512 acoustic attributes of the current one. Forgot all that, I want the next best clip to watch based on - one of the most frequently pursued and unacknowledged male (and female) activity on the Internet.<p>Data is all there. Tagging is categorized to the T on porntube sites by the actor/actress, genre, ethnicity and different acts depicted. Aggregator sites are already out there so all someone needs to do is build an aggregator site that plots out the user "interaction" graph from one clip to the next and make correlations. Next a snazzy Pandora interface where you could skip (unlimited times) to the next video, or show multiple preview of video's that you could skip to; or maybe make it social like turntable.fm where multiple people could vote to rock their socks off to a clip or not and see how long people in a particular room last... the possibilities are endless in pornification of the interwebz

I really dislike it when people come up with terms like gamification and now pornification. Guess what? They all are under the same branch of psychological principles: appealing to our intrinsic desires and biological instincts. It's psychology 101. Dopamines fire when we get rewards (gamification). Dopamines fire when we see a naked attractive person of opposite sex. This ain't no disruptive breakthrough here.

"Any non sex photos would be flagged as inappropriate content and removed immediately."<p>I love how backward that is!

Resubmitted again since when our site went down HN marked the link [dead]. We're up and running again...

I do think there will be much more prostitution in the future, especially in the so-called developed countries, especially among otherwise/former middle class people. Partly because of the inhibition-lowering effects of the Internet, partly because of the greater communication and market-making opportunities enabled by the Internet, and partly because of the increased economic pressure put on otherwise working class people caused by globalization, and again, by the Internet. In short, a greater percentage of people will choose to, or perhaps feel are forced to, engage in sexual acts in exchange for money. Even if just "webcam entertainment". I'm betting it will happen anyway.