> Stevie Why posts on www.xxxporntalk.com: Just a year or so ago the buzz around XBiz was astounding. Certainly no one ever expected it to fully rival AVN but at the very least would give a bit of much needed competition within the on-line adult world. I’m a big fan of competition; it forces companies to improve themselves when they see their share of the market begin to tumble and favor their competition.

XBiz had quite a big of promise; now when I visit their site (especially since I still don’t know how the posting of adult news stories on AVN’s redesign seems to work) it looks just AMATEURISH. The entire background is devoted to HushCash, some mediocre looking affiliate site mainly devoted to black content (not to mention when I visited they had an ad on the right and the featured company profile…can you talk about overload?) and the main reason I would visit their little url, their news stories, all suck. Every preview picture of the front page sucks (grainy pics of the North Carolina and Australia flags) including a pic of everyones favorite gay porn killers looking like it was copied off of AdultFYI.

Not to mention such a small number of daily news stories compared to the past, and many of which were covered by sites like AdultFYI days before.

I see that XBiz still runs a regular legal column by Greg Piccionelli (who in my opinion is one of the smartest, if not the smartest, attorneys in adult out there) so maybe they have some promise…but really, what the fuck happened to XBiz? I don’t hear their name as much anymore…how long has the downward spiral been going on for them?