John Styn

John Halcyon Styn is an American blogger, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, web designer, author, and Web celebrity, who "pushed the boundaries of online self-expression" through his various online projects. He is currently the co-founder of 1st Saturdays, a homeless outreach project, host of Hug Nation.

Styn worked as the first Webmaster for Sony's "Station" E-commerce Mall and for CollegeClub.com

Styn has won two Webby Awards, the first, as the designer and star of his personal website, cockybastard.com, and the second for a HugNation video podcast.

Other projects have included:

• FreshRealm, a food shipping company that uses reusable shipping technology. Chief Wisdom Officer.
• Anybeat, a social networking service based on pseudonymity.
• 1st Saturdays, a homeless outreach project based in San Diego.
• Hug Nation, which won the "people's choice" Webby Award in 2007.
• Pinkgasm.com, an "alternative sexuality site" that sponsored the Masturbate-a-thon events.
• Pink Aid, a charity originally started to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
• "Porn Posse", an Internet services company.
• CitizenX.com, an experimental webcam community.
• TheRealHouse, a live webcam-house that ran from 2000–2002
• The book, Love more. Fear less. (2010)

• Hafner, Katie (May 31, 2001). "A Beautiful Life, an Early Death, a Fraud Exposed". New York Times. 
• "And the winner is ...". The Independent. May 15, 2000. 
• Evans, Jamie (September 2, 2011). "Hugnation Wins The Votes Of People Like Better Reality Site For The 11th Annual Webby Award". Gadgets Radar. 
• "How to build a technology company around food – John Styn of FreshRealm". Medialeaders.com. June 13, 2014. 
• Becky, Haycox (June 17, 2015). "Meet this year's Economic Outlook Breakfast Speakers". Ventura Chamber of Commerce. 
• Olanoff, Drew (September 27, 2011). "AnyBeat is the social network that doesn't even want your real name". The Next Web. 
• Sites, Kevin. "People of the Web - Love Warriors". Yahoo. Archived from the original on 2007-07-03. Retrieved 3 October 2012. 
• Stern, Otto Z. (23 June 2007). "Yahoo!'s pink liberation army a threat to America's youth • The Register". The Register. Retrieved 3 October 2012. 
• Newitz, Annalee (March 1, 2006). "Blogging for Dollars:How to Launch Porn into the Blogosphere". Adult Video News. 
• Lewis, Todd (September 30, 2005). "Digital Orgy for Charity Sunday". Adult Video News. 
• Lewis, Todd. "PINK+AID Charity Porn DVD Now Available". Adult Video News. 
• Barrett, Marty (December 1, 2003). "A Fistful of Porn: The Porn Posse Saddles Up". Adult Video News. 
• Senft, Theresa M. (2008). Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social Networks. ISBN 9780820456942. Retrieved 3 October 2012. 
• Styn, John (2010). Love more. Fear less. Lulu. ISBN 9780557669196. 

Styn bought his first URL in 1996 to put his self-published zine, Prehensile Tales, on the web. This first autobiographical ezine ran from 1996 to 2000.

He first achieved internet notoriety when one of his stories got him into trouble with Fruit of the Loom. When they sent a cease and desist order on March 2, 1998 demanding that he take down a parody of their logo that he made for a blog post. The post is still up.

He is also a contributor for the Burning Blog, the official blog of Burning Man.