The Other Me

I got enough emails from friends about this one today to warrant a post I think.

The emails I received all linked to a New York Times article that ran today entitled Is Live Sex On-Demand Coming to Hotel TVs?  It was these paragraphs that caught people's attention:

Gregory Clayman, the owner of the live-action company Video Secrets, predicted that the industry would soon be selling not just videos on demand in mainstream hotels, but images of people having sex live over the hotels’ entertainment systems.

“We feel that live, right now, is coming of age,” Mr. Clayman said. “We are planning to make the jump to hotel rooms.”

To set the record straight, that Gregory Clayman is not me.  He's another guy, about my age I think, who has been in the online content business since founding his B2B streaming adult video company, Video Secrets, in 1996.  The other Greg Clayman gives keynotes, has notable parties, has been in Forbes, and does the panel circuit so it's not unusual for us to cross paths in the press.  I saw a picture of him winning an AVN Award a few years back and he even kind of looks like me.

Although we've never met, I think we have an unspoken agreement that he's "Gregory" and I'm "Greg" when we do press.  At least, that's how our names appear for the most part.

Because I've been reading all his press forever I've been able to follow his career and I've got to say, the other Gregory Clayman is an impressive guy.  He's an early internet entrepreneur and one of the pioneers of streaming video technology and affiliate network management and programming.  His company has been around for 10 years and seems to be highly regarded as a technology leader in the adult space.  From the other Gregory Clayman's bio:

Clayman was one of VS Media's original sales team members, devising and implementing the distribution network that provides Video Secrets live content to more than 18,000 webmasters and to hundreds of thousands links worldwide... VS Media is currently celebrating their 10 year anniversary and going as strong as ever due to the company's commitment to quality, ethics and technology.

If you're the other Greg Clayman and you're reading this I'd love to hear from you.

Update:  Thank you Xeni for linking here from boingboing's post on the Times story.  Although I wouldn't say I'm "frustrated" so much as bemused that folks think I'm a porn magnate.  (Or is honored the right word?)