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Sunday, February 15, 2009
This is an update concerning the websites that were using the Ning platform and were ordered to shut down all their sections that were adult in nature (you can read more about all this from our archived articles). Well I received an email which illuminated certain areas to this story which I wasn't aware of. But before I get into that, I'd like to first mention a few sites that were affected by Ning's decision and where they are now.
1st off, the 'Got Fur?' website had already moved their stuff over back in December and things have been fine for them at their new home with Grou.ps. Their new effort is called Bears in the Woods.
The next site is ChubSpot and they have been having issues re-opening up. They have changed their date of re-open at least a half a dozen times so far. On their site now they mention that they will 'probably' open their site before February 20th.
The 3rd site is BearZone and it's from their newsletter that I received a few eye openers in regards to what Ning did. Once Ning allowed adult content, eventually members started uploading more and more x-rated videos.
From their newsletter: "The problem is that more than enough of these videos were professionally done porn videos from studios such as Falcon, Titan, Colt, etc. Everyone quickly found out that this is very much frowned upon. These companies started contacting Ning of the copyright infringing and many sites were shut down, and many site owners, and site members are now being sued.
Ning decided they'd take drastic measures and just delete all the sites with adult content from their servers in effort to keep Google investors happy.
We had to work closely with (Ning) and keep pressuring them to give us a way to export more than 30,000 members profiles, and all their pictures, videos, blog posts, comments, favorites, profile information, etc. Eventually, they did, but it wasn't a format that made any sense. So we had our programmer hack up some code to import and translate the information and content.
To make matters worse, Ning shut us down early. They didn't keep their word, and we could not import every member. We could not import any of the videos, music, and some other replaceable but sucks to lose content".
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Friday, December 19, 2008
Back on December 4th (article), PlanetBears mentioned that the social platform Ning are going to be discontinuing their 'red light district' (blog). This means that sites like Got Fur, ChubSpot (closed) and BearZone ~ all profiles which have adult content on them, has to be removed. Yet not only photos and videos... anything with adult content. From Ning: "Text and words are also considered adult content, so if there are any erotic stories or sexually explicit descriptions in groups, events, forums, profiles, etc. this is also considered adult". From what I'm reading on these Ning platforms, they are either going to continue their groups however without the adult content, or they are going to be moving all of their content over to another platform. They have until the new year to do this.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The nominees are in for the 'Best of the Bears'. This is the 3rd year that 'Got Fur...?' (website - articles) has been handing out these awards, and it's all done thru participation. You guys voted for the nominees, now you must vote who should win.
You can find the list of nominees on The Complete Bear's (website - profile) blog page Bear Bones (direct link is here). What you have to do now is choose your favourite among those listed and email your answers to them. And I got some great news - PlanetBears has been nominated, not once but twice (we've never been nominated before): once for 'Best Bear Blog' and the other for 'Best Bear Resources'. You have until December 31st to choose your winners, so get voting.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
This is a friendly reminder that you have up until November 15th to vote for the 'Best of the Bears' over at the Got Fur? site. Send your nomination to this email. After that, the voting will ensue between November 15th until December 31st. There is also a new category 'Bear of the Year'; one who has done the most for the Bear and GLBT community - (this category requires a bit of background).
Here are the other categories: 'Best Bear Website', Best Bear Blog', 'Best Bear Nonfiction Book', 'Best Bear Fiction Book', 'Best Bear Podcast', 'Best Bear Porn Site', Best Bear Video', 'Best Bear Porn Star', 'Best Bear Business', 'Best Bear Celebrity', 'Best Bear Publication', 'Best Bear Club', 'Best Bear Run', 'Best Bear Movie Group', 'Best Bear Bar', 'Best Bear Fundraiser', 'Best Bear Campsite', 'Best Bear Accommodations', 'Best Bear Play Party', 'Best Bear Resource', 'Best Bear Artist', and, 'Best Bear Performer'.
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
It's time again to vote for your favourite Bear websites for 2007. The guys from Got Fur - the same guys who are associated with the site The Complete Bear - are having their 2nd annual 'Best of the Bears' - email them in your votes for best site, best blog, best video, best artist... all the categories are listed on their site. You can vote up until December 31st. Check out the winners from last year here.