August 17, 2007 at 8:45 am · Filed under Editorials, Social, Startup, Web 2.0
Web 3.0 Startup Checklist:
1. New Take on a Social Network: CHECK
2. Built With Uber Cool Rails: CHECK
3. Investment from Rich Web 1.0 Moguls: CHECK
4. Crazy Ass Business Model: CHECK
The idea for Zivity is good, but the execution is not in line with the market, and I know a little something about the pron market. I mean who doesn’t?
According to VB, they want the photos to be “fine erotica” submitted by hot people where paid subscribers vote and follow these local hotty attention whores.
Hmmm sounds a lot like MySpace … which is free … and prob has 1000 times more local hotties to stalk than Zivity has. Where do I sign up? Oh that’s right I can’t (it’s in private beta)
Pron is free all over the mighty Interweb. There are free social networks, free attention whores, free fine erotica photos and free adult blogs to keep everyone more than satisfied.
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Zivity, an adult social network, raises $1M before launch
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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.
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It’s not a porn site, such as the newer sites Eroshare (pictures) or Pornotube (vidoes). Rather, it likens itself to a mixture of MySpace and Playboy magazine with popularity/voting features thrown in. It says it focuses on pinup-like photography, or so-called “fine art erotica.” It invites regular woman — such as the local Starbucks barista — to submit photo shots.
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It is apparently based on ruby+rails, python, and/or perl, according to its job list.
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August 16, 2007 at 3:10 pm · Filed under Internet Applications, Startup
Via the *new* Hacker News I found FEEDJIT, a widget sort of thing that displays incoming and outgoing traffic including destination. The more important story here however was that this ‘jit was created in only 10 hours.
I could roll a startup out in less time than that, but it would have to include less functionality, maybe a mod of something in the can.
| Live traffic feed |
 � Loudon, New Hampshire arrived via markmaunder.com |
| � Babson Park, Massachusetts arrived via markmaunder.com |
 � Calgary, Alberta arrived via markmaunder.com |
| � Sterling Heights, Michigan arrived via markmaunder.com |
| � Sterling Heights, Michigan arrived via markmaunder.com |
| � Sterling Heights, Michigan left via cnn.com |
 � New Delhi, Delhi arrived via markmaunder.com |
| � Groveland, Massachusetts arrived via markmaunder.com |
| � New York, New York arrived via markmaunder.com |
| � New York, New York arrived via markmaunder.com |
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FEEDJIT shows arrivals and departures on any page on your website.
It does this by tracking referrers and clicks on external links.
FEEDJIT won’t slow down your site because it draws itself after
your page has loaded.
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FEEDJIT is free, we don’t need you to register with us, and it’s secure so no one can steal your widget code and display your
arrivals and departures.
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