Is sexier social networking worth $10 a month? This young couple thinks so.
Excerpt: “The hidden cost of free MySpace and Facebook, according to Banister, is censorship. “People can’t express themselves because advertisers want controls on content. Free is unfree,” he says. “We like to think of Zivity as the HBO of the Web.”
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Scott explains why he doesn’t just tumble around playing video games and instead focuses on identifying new markets and creating jobs that people enjoy. View the Video
[James, Zivity model Tessie, TC40 Judge MC Hammer (MC HAMMER!!!), and Zivity founder Cyan]
I’m on stage with expert panelists/judges and presenting companies in the 8th Session : MC Hammer, Brad Garlinghouse (Yahoo), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Loïc Le Meur (serial entrepreneur), Sarah Lacy (reporter/writer) and Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)
We presented to a large audience at TC40 and [...]
American Venture interviews Zivity co-founder Cyan Banister. How will Zivity photography be clean enough for squeamish investors yet exciting enough to drive traffic? How will the models and photographers profit?
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“Taking it off for the Web”
Zivity, a social-networking startup that invites users to rate sexy photos submitted by other users, said Tuesday that it had raised $1 million.
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Zivity: Silicon Valley Elite Dabble in Adult Content
by Michael Arrington
Porn is big business, and the industry has been quick to adapt by copying successful features of new consumer Internet sites. But one thing we haven’t seen until now: respected Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors taking a direct interest in funding or running these sites.
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Zivity, a new adult social network start-up, has raised a $1 million round of seed capital from Silicon Valley investors — as it prepares for launch.
It’s not a porn site…Rather, it likens itself to a mixture of MySpace and Playboy magazine with popularity/voting features thrown in.
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