Comments on: As Promised, Zivity Founder Does The Full Monty

By: 1938 Media Interview With Zivity Cofounder Cyan Banister. Guest Appearance By Sc | Tipstech.info

Sat, 31 May 2008 07:21:55 +0000

[...] and, as usual, there’s a surprise at the end (although regular TechCrunch readers might not be so surprised). I’ve managed to cease laughing long enough to get this post [...]

By: 1938Media Interview With Zivity Cofounder Cyan Banister. Guest Appearance By Scoble At End

Fri, 30 May 2008 02:42:57 +0000

[...] Fake Shel interviews Zivity Cofounder Cyan Banister and, as usual, there’s a surprise at the end. Any guesses? [...]

By: rainbow

rainbow — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:46:18 +0000

I don´t care about what is called “porn” or “nudity” or “art”, but I think that this “entrepreneural view of the models” is just crap.

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PopSnap: Crunchie Party Update by Sarah Meyers « Sarah Meyers — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:15:38 +0000

[...] the negative feedback from the press regarding her provocative pictures on Zivity. She say’s the press can say what they want because negative press does not bother [...]

By: Harshal Vaidya

Harshal Vaidya — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:39:59 +0000

Micheal has always had fixation with Porn and related subjects. He never misses to report even a tiny feature change on the well known Porn sites.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:25:45 +0000

And the user who has voted most for Cyan, by far, is user ‘techcrunch’

By: Ashok

Ashok — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:23:54 +0000

you gotta love a founder than can pimp herself for traffic

By: Pearl

Pearl — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:58:31 +0000

Once again, Cyan lives up to her word. And the photos are stunning.

By: other

other — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:00:30 +0000

“She looks great….and I would never work for a boss who cared what I was looking at.”

Thanks, but in like 90% of workplaces, your boss does care what you look at.

By: egon

egon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:43:33 +0000

This is Web2.0.. Everything is an object.

By: pamon

pamon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:34:03 +0000

all for promoting your site, but agree a NSFW image on the title of the post would help. digg does that for some.

Michael… covering this one and adultfriendfinder’s sale, maybe you should open up an adultcrunch site?

By: mmt

mmt — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:25:02 +0000

“Zivity has a unique business model that pays models and photographers directly based on the number of user votes they receive. ”

Not sure what’s so unique about that. Isn’t that the typical web 2.0 payment model? Pay based on popularity, visits, votes, etc.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:25:23 +0000

She looks great….and I would never work for a boss who cared what I was looking at. Oh, and I work at a church, so technically my Boss made her.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:56:18 +0000

@vanessa
“For the record, I am OK with seeing this first thing in the morning. The black bar is a nice touch. All you need now is the word ‘CENSORED’ in flashing white letters.”

it’s web 2.0…that black bar is prime advertising space. “CENSORED” is a waste.

I’m sure Michael will pay a pretty penny to get “TECHCRUNCH” across her children…and when I say children I mean her boobs!

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:43:05 +0000

For the record, I am OK with seeing this first thing in the morning. The black bar is a nice touch. All you need now is the word ‘CENSORED’ in flashing white letters.

She looks great.

By: Lapp

Lapp — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:34:05 +0000

Its official…..I like zivity

By: Joe Jones

Joe Jones — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:29:42 +0000

If you want porn, the list of sites is endless.

Aspiring and established models and photographers, who don’t want to be associated with porn, should try http://www.solomodels.com. It has been around for several years, is Web 2.0, has high quality work, and the site is kept clean of porn and predators. It even has an IPhone interface among numerous other useful features.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:20:09 +0000

This article is out of context, based on the perceived objectives of the site.

Moreover, you are likely to discourage traffic.

As said by other readers, to browse this @ work could put many of us in trouble.

Last, but not least, this:
a) only promotes treating women as objects, rather than persons,
b) downgrades love to sex to a sport contact, and happiness to casual pleasure

By: Wim

Wim — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:02:20 +0000

Love the concept, the site design, and obviously Cyan too

when we released our new feature “Dare a Friend” at bragster.com last week, as co-founders we also had no choice but to lead by example… fortunately it was all about downing pints

see: http://www.brag...r.com/dare/7791

By: other

other — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:49:07 +0000

“No problem letting kids buy guns, but show some flesh and it gets hit with an R rating.”

wtf? you are an idiot.

By: Good Grief

Good Grief — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:45:47 +0000

Richard
I’d bet she’s the only one anyone could remotely WANT to see naked…

It’s a good idea, and she’s doing the right thing anyway. People need to lighten the hell up when it comes to self-expression and the beauty of the human body.

People in the USA in particular. We think nothing of starting a war (at least, not until it doesn’t go so well for us), but nudity?!

OMG! Someone needs put a stop that that ASAP! Janet Jackson at the Super Bowl — ACK!

By: User447

User447 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:13:59 +0000

That other lady in the stream looks like a future Joan Rivers.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:02:42 +0000

Is this similar to Iwant2bapornstart or whatever its called ? its a site that allows anybody to post semi-nube/nude/porn pics/vids of themselves and users can purchase a subscription to view the full content of the site or pay just for a contributors vids/pics. They even allow you to download/save to your computer.

but im impressed with this founders attemtp for media coverage , its working girl – keep it up.
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http://www.xencasino.con

By: Fraud + liabilities + failed porn attempt + no valuable technology nor new biz model present.

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:36:28 +0000

Sad, sad, very sad – all that content should just be cut and pasted on a blog – posing as an innovative startup with a common business model already used on endless porn sites is very wrong. This site is identical to any domain farmer’s porn clusters that link with innocent tags ‘nude art’ or ‘expression’ on the front page/home page (that gets indexed by Google, etc. and can be overlooked by federal sex offender prosecutors).

The General’s Commission on Pornography, reiterates federal prosecution is important in the area of child pornography offenses, which as of late spurs from adult sites, many of which look and act like the site featured here. Less importantly, the photo above is worth nothing even if it’s from the founder and has 13 eyeballs on it, and will only depreciate further now as there is endless supply of it indexed already. The founder in the pic above would be safer trying to research nudity on the internet first before posing as a legit business with some clothed women – the CEO’s Club which was recently shut down at 1 Market Street, SF, is an prime but unfortunate example of how the rich, arrogant, and ignorant don’t slow down enough to learn the consequences of their daily quick fetish fix, even more so if at a public site or place.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:05:47 +0000

@needlegun
I guess this gives you two options

A) get yourself into shape
B) buy some stock in ACME barf bags “R” Us

This is NOT anywhere near porn, I don’t even find this remotely suggestive… magazines at the checkout counter show more explicit stuff. It’s an interesting business model, looking forward to seeing how it evolves / degrades as it is going along a very thin line. We all come and exit this world in the same way, there is nothing to feel ashamed about if you are proud of what you have been able to build with hard work and sharing it with the world.

Jon
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