Apple Releases New Sexy App Guidelines for Developers

After the release, and subsequent takedown of the first iPhone App to display naked boobs, “Hottest Girls,” Apple has put out a new set of guidelines to help developers steer clear of a similar fate.

Apple iPhone App “Sexy” Guidelines:

1) Apps containing nothing but pictures of women over the age of 18 will be permitted in the App Store as long as said women are not exposing any of their “bathsuit suit” parts.

2) Apps may allow users to undress said women as long as they only take off a single layer of clothing.  Removal of more than one layer of clothing will get you banned.

3) All said women must wear underwear that covers the entire pubic region (don’t make me say the v-word) and at least one-third of the tuchus while exposing none of the separation between cheeks.  On top, said women may expose as much boob as they can without showing the world even a glimpse of areola or nipple.  Therefore, the smaller said woman’s areola, the more breast can be exposed.  Now, nipples. They can poke through the thinnest, wettest fabric you’ve got, but the user may NOT see the actual nipple skin.

4) Apps may allow users to manipulate the breasts of said women via the touch-screen as long as they user is not able to see the actual flesh being manipulated.

5) Similar Apps featuring scantily clad men will be banned due to the fact that they may cause homosexuality, thus violating the App Store’s basic TOS.

Apple hopes this clears things up in the “sexy” App department.  Look forward to more guidelines from Apple including “Words and Phrases to Avoid in eBooks” and “What’s Ok to Gun Down.”

Sex Sells…Books too.

I’ve been waiting for publishers to get a bit edgier with their online promotion for books.

Although this promotion (kinda NSFW) for the NYT bestseller Beautiful Children might border on simply being the porn it is modeled on I certainly see why it might get passed around the interwebs.

Of course, the big question is whether or not this sort of promotion will lead to book sales.  Considering the low cost of this type of video and the chance of going “viral” it certainly can’t hurt.

Lifetime launches some web vids

Over at Lifetime they are debuting a new webisodic called That Magic Moment, featuring couples talking about the first time they did it.

Not a bad idea, considering the network and the time of launch. They have also made the video embeddable, a vital step that none of these networks were taking six months ago.

This SHOULD allow me to place an example right here in my blog with no fear of legal action. They actually figured out that I am providing them with FREE advertising.

Sadly, the embed code provided (see below) just doesn’t seem to work.  Not knowing enough HTML I can’t say why.  What I do know is that when I paste in code for a YouTube video it just works.

<iframe src=”http://videos.mylifetime.com/linking/index.jsp?skin=oneclip&fr_story=1582ccbedfef69d4ef7a147941965646743bab5f&rf=ev&hl=true” width=”482″ height=”307″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0″ ></iframe>]

Isabella Rossalini re-enacts insects having sex

Yup, that’s the story.  Isabella Rossalini is getting into the world of short video, creating and starring in a series of short videos intended for the mobile media market.  According to Wired

“Rossellini’s one-minute shorts are dramatic reenactments of insects copulating called Green Porno, a name designed to draw search engine traffic.”

The 8 films will eventually be distributed to “third screens” by Sundance Channel.

That is all.