BurningAngel, starring Joanna Angel, was launched as a response to websites such as which website founded in 2001 by Selena Mooney that revolves around pin-up photography sets of models and provides paying customers access to images provided by models and photographers worldwide?
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Joanna Angel Joanna Angel (born December 25, 1980) is a Jewish American alternative pornographic and mainstream actress, director, and writer of adult films. She is best known for starting BurningAngel in April, 2002 with her flatmate Mitch Fontaine, and has been credited with helping the 'alt-porn' scene grow and develop in industry. Launched as a response to websites such as SuicideGirls, it featured alternative performers acting in exclusively hardcore scenes with a stronger focus on a punk aesthetic.
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SuicideGirls SuicideGirls is an online community based website that revolves around pin-up photography sets of models known as the Suicide Girls. The website was founded in 2001 by Selena Mooney ("Missy Suicide") and Sean Suhl ("Spooky"). Most of the site is only accessible to paying members. It offers members access to images provided by models and photographers worldwide, as well as personal profiles, blogging platforms, and the option to join numerous groups based upon different interests. There is also an online merchandise store offering a range of clothing, books, and DVDs.
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Elizabeth Moran (photographer) Elizabeth Moran (born 1984) is an American photographer. Her work explores unseen and possibly unexplained pasts, as well as photographing what could be considered unphotographable. She has created photo series examining such subject matter as porn film sets depicted without any people present, and the exploration of supernatural activity, particularly around her mother's childhood home. Kink.com founder Peter Acworth, who welcomed Moran into the company's studios in The Armory, spoke positively of Moran's depictions, saying that her approach "shows that behind all the fantasy of the Kink is a world that is, in many ways, very normal." Her work exploring supernatural activity, which includes references to nineteenth-century “spirit photography,” caught the attention of ghost hunters who would consult with her on the possible validity of suspected photographs of ghosts.
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Jon Oringer Jon Oringer (born May 2, 1974) is an American programmer, photographer, and businessman, best known as the founder and CEO of Shutterstock, a stock media and editing tools provider headquartered in New York City. Oringer started his career while a college student in the 1990s, when he invented "one of the Web’s first pop-up blockers." He went on to found about ten small startups that used a subscription method to sell "personal firewalls, accounting software, cookie blockers, trademark managers," and other small programs. In 2003 he founded Shutterstock to provide microstock photography, which has been publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange since 2012. As a result of going public, in 2013 Oringer was reported to be New York’s first tech billionaire. Shutterstock had over 100,000 contributors as of March 2016, with an "active customer base of 1.4 million people in 150 countries." Among other accolades, in 2012 Oringer was named New York's Technology Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, and the following year Oringer was recognized as one of "Crain's New York" 40 Under 40.
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Luminous-Lint Luminous-Lint (or Luminous Lint) is a website on photography, run by Alan Griffiths, on vintage and contemporary photography. The site also serves as a collaborative knowledge base on the history of photography and includes some 60,000 photographs, 700 online exhibitions, biographies of more than 7,000 photographers, and information about techniques, galleries and dealers, photography timelines and other photography-related issues. Robert Hirsch has referred to it as a "top-notch" photographic site.
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Fumitaro Ohama Fumitaro Ohama, born in 1971, is a Japanese internet entrepreneur, founded Japan's first mega mobile site,"girlswaler.com". Ohama also established "fashionwalker.com" with Japan's major portal site, Yahoo! Japan(SoftBank group), became the president and CEO of the owning 17 group companies, Xavel Inc.(Branding Inc.)
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Angelfire Angelfire ( ) is an Internet service that offers free and paid website services. It is owned by Lycos, which also owns Tripod.com. Angelfire operates separately from Tripod.com and includes features such as blog building and a photo gallery builder. It also supports, for paid members only, CGI scripts written in Perl. Although Angelfire and Tripod are separate services, they share much of the same underlying software, such as the blog application.
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Rally.org Rally.org is an American social online fundraising platform for use by a wide range of individuals and organizations. It allows users to set up their own fundraising page, through which supporters can find information about their campaigns and make donations through Rally.org's proprietary payment system. The platform is best known for its use by causes including the Make A Wish Foundation and Jon Bon Jovi's Hurricane Sandy relief effort, filmmakers including the director of "Buzkashi Boys", and political campaigns in the United States 2012 election cycle. In May 2012, Rally.org closed the largest Series A round of venture capital ever raised online. The company was founded in Austin, Texas, as Piryx, in 2009 by Tom Serres, Brian Upton, Jonas Lamis and Naveed Lalani.
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EurOut.org eurOut.org, founded in September 2008, is a European website publishing news about lesbian and bisexual women in entertainment and politics in the English language. The website was founded by Sandra Showtime who also functioned as its editor-in-chief until February 2010, when she accepted a job as COO for OneMoreLesbian.com (OML). eurOut.org is currently run by Saskia Joreen until a new CEO is appointed.
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Sean Cody Sean Cody is a gay pornography studio founded in Fall 2001. The website predominantly features young, muscular, white men in solo and hardcore scenes. Sean Cody has a strict model selection, with contracts requiring no prior pornographic experience ('exclusive' men).
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Imagekind Imagekind is a commercial website that prints and sells images created by participating artists on-demand. It also includes a social networking and marketing site for artists and their customers. It was founded in Seattle, Washington in 2006 by Adrian Hanauer, a Seattle, Washington co-owner of the Seattle Sounders professional soccer team, and Kelly Smith, a software & digital media specialist who formed Curious Office as an incubator of online companies. It is now owned by CafePress.
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ArtistShare ArtistShare is the internet's first crowdfunding platform for musicians. It also operates as a record label and business model for creative artists which enables them to fund their projects by allowing the general public to directly finance, watch the creative process, and in most cases gain access to extra material from an artist. According to Bloomberg News, the company’s chief executive officer, Brian Camelio, founded ArtistShare in 2000 with the idea that fans would finance production costs for albums sold only on the Internet and Artists also would enjoy much more favourable contract terms. ArtistShare was described in 2005 as a "completely new business model for creative artists" which "benefits both the artist and the fans by financing new and original artistic projects while building a strong and loyal fan base".
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OkCupid OkCupid (sometimes abbreviated as OKC) is an American-based international operating online dating, friendship, and social networking website that features member-created quizzes and multiple-choice questions. It is supported by advertisements and paying users who do not see ads.
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Trendyol group Trendyol.com is a fashion ecommerce website based in Turkey. Trendyol.com was founded in 2010 and has over 10 million members.
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Face.com Face.com was a Tel Aviv-based technology company that developed a platform for efficient and accurate facial recognition in photos uploaded via web and mobile applications. Face.com apps and API services scanned billions of photos monthly and tagged faces in those photos, tying them to social networking information. As of February 2011, the company had “discovered” 18 billion faces across its API and Facebook applications.
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SugarInstant SugarInstant (formerly called SugarDVD) is the largest renter of adult DVDs online. Initially, SugarInstant's services were limited to flat-rate membership-based DVD-by-mail, but since its creation in 2002, the company has developed websites in several different areas of the adult industry. The company is based in Santa Ana, CA with multiple shipping centers across the United States.
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Susie Castillo Susie Castillo (born October 27, 1979) is an American actress, TV Host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who held the Miss USA title and competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe pageants. She pursued a career in the media, and as such, has made various television appearances and hosted shows such as MTV's "Total Request Live" as a VJ.
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Pixlee Pixlee is a visual marketing platform that allows businesses to market and sell with real customer photos and videos.
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Burning Shed Burning Shed is an independent record label established in April 2001 by musicians Tim Bowness and Pete Morgan]].
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Multiply (website) Multiply was a social networking service with an emphasis on allowing users to share media – such as photos, videos and blog entries – with their "real-world" network. The website was launched in March 2004 and was privately held with backing by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Point Judith Capital, Transcosmos, and private investors. Multiply had over 11 million registered users.
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B3ta B3ta (stylised as b3ta) is a popular British website, described as a "puerile digital arts community" by "The Guardian". It was founded in 2001 by Rob Manuel, Denise Wilton and Cal Henderson.
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Coffee Meets Bagel Coffee Meets Bagel is a San Francisco–based dating and social networking website.