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0 Zivity CEO explains her new, less-profitable strategy

Cyan Banister, co-founder of adult photography community site Zivity — a place where photographers and models post cheesecakey photo shoots in hopes...

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0 More job cuts hit Silicon Valley: Zivity and hi5

Even as the startup world watched bubbles popping in other industries over the past year, we hoped it wouldn’t hit us quite as hard. But it looks like...

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0 Zivity Adds Dudes. Let Me Know How It Goes (#zividude)

Venture backed adult site Zivity finally figured out that there's a whole other market out there beyond guys (and a few women) who want to look at...

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0 How Crowdsourced Porn Failed

Zivity, the much-ballyhooed site where you can buy pictures from amateur models, is stripping itself of most assets and employees. Appropriate, in a...

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0 Zivity Splits Employees, Execs, Venture Funding Into Two Companies

In a highly unusual transaction, Zivity, a venture funded adult content startup, has spun off the majority of its assets, employees and venture...

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0 TopFans.com Adds Another Way To Worship Celebrities Online

Pop culture's obsession with celebrities is evolving along with technology. Ashton Kutcher reached 1 million Twitter followers and Oprah is now part...

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0 Cyan Banister, Guest Editor

I’m happy to report that we have the Nrrrd Grrrl (not a typo) herself, Cyan Banister (not to be confused with a Cyan Banister) as our Guest Editor for...

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0 Web Developer Fantasizes About SXSW's 'South By Girls'

Every year, instead of heading to the beaches, geeks flock to Austin, Texas, to engage in a rite of spring called "South By Southwest." There's a...

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0 Lingerie shots show a founder's dilemma [Recessionomics]

Times are tight for Web startups: Catalina Girald couldn't afford to hire a model for her fashion site's lingerie collection. So she stripped down to...

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0 Mint 11: Hang With Celebs and Elites for Just $10 a Month

There’s social networking of the MySpace and Facebook variety, and then there’s social networking of the premium, “classy,” “sophisticated,”...

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0 Cash is king

Guy Kawasaki warns of VC panic, and why FilmLoop failed while Slide succeeded

In the month of October, we've seen startups such as Zivity, Seesmic,...

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0 Craigslist’s Red Light District Gets Mapped

We don’t frequently pay mind to the world of adult-natured business on the Web. Only on occasion will we see what’s going on in “that part” of the...

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0 Zivity - You know it, when you see it

Zivity is Playboy meets MySpace meets American Idol

(Note: Zivity, the adult content site on Friday, Oct. 17, said it was cutting a third of its...

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0 Keeping Count: The TechCrunch Layoff Tracker

After Silicon Valley woke up to the economic crisis last week and VCs rang the alarm bells, startups are starting to heed the call and tighten their...

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0 I’ve Got Good News and Bad News

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks, and an interesting day, too, as it turns out. As I alternate this evening between scrolling through the...

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0 Reader Poll: Do you want us to regularly cover startup job cuts?

More startups are cutting jobs as America drives deeper into recession. Hi5 has cut 15 positions, and Zivity has cut 1/3rd of staff, according to...

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0 Adult Startup Zivity Cuts 1/3 Of Staff

Zivity, the adult social network and media site that describes itself as a "community-powered showcase of female beauty", has laid off 1/3 of its...

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0 Sex, beer, and Joomla [Valleywag Calendar]

Tonight writer and "sex adventurer" Anna Reed will discuss her article “Sleeping Around Craigslist” at Good Vibrations in Berkeley. On this side of...

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0 Vator Box - Vator Box: Taltopia and Presdo

Conde Nast Portfolio's Blaise Zerega is our guest host (again) this week

In this mixed bag theme, John Shinal (managing editor) and Conde Nast...

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0 New Startup Tech Jobs

Test Automation Architect at Indeed
Front End Developer at Indeed
Software Engineer at Ning
Web Designer at Zivity
Software Engineer - SaaS (job id#...

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  • Date: Aug 12, 2008
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