Tag Archives: Cyan Banister

Zivity in Forbes - Online and Print

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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Interview with American Venture Magazine

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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Zivity:VentureBeat Funding Announcement

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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