Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

BeenVerified to Present at Harvard University’s Berkman Center

BeenVerified is honored to have been selected to present at the Internet Safety Task Force to Identify and Develop Online Safety Tools at Harvard University's Berkman Center to be held on September 23rd and 24th. The Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTTF) Open Meeting will be held on Harvard's campus ...

Come see us at The @ShackShack nextNY Event

Shake Shack and Silicon Alley-- does it get any better than this?  BeenVerified is proud to sponsor the @shakeshack: A nextNY Community Gathering taking place on September 16th, 2008, from 6-8PM in Madison Square Park.  For once, BeenVerified will not have to rely on our friends from the the World ...

BeenVerified Selected to Present at The Hatchery Event NYC

We are honored to have been selected to speak at the upcoming Hatchery event here in New York City. The Hatchery is the brain child of Dr. Yao-Hui Huang (a.k.a Dr. Business) and has been labeled the "American Idol of Startups".  We have personally attended a few Hatchery events and ...

The BeenVerified API Has Arrived!

We spent the last week or so enjoying working normal hours and just relaxing after the past four months of re-building BeenVerified. Today, we felt it was time to jump right back into mix and kick things into high gear again. We are very happy to announce the official launch of ...

Coming Very, Very Soon…

It's been quite a long time since our last blog post but we are happy to say that pretty soon BeenVerified is going to have a whole new feel and agenda. We spent the last few months analyzing requests from our users and taking a look at how BeenVerified was ...

BeenVerified and Citizendium Team Up to Build a Trusted Wiki

BeenVerified would like to officially welcome all Citizendium.com members to BeenVerified. Citizendium is an online encyclopedia project that was started by Larry Sanger, one of the founders of Wikipedia. The Citizendium project is different from Wikipedia in the fact that they use real names and real identities. Additionally, Citizendium ...

BeenVerified Users Deserve to “Get Satisfaction”

Everything our service represents revolves around transparency, being open, and the ability to communicate effectively about yourself and your product or services. That's why we are excited to announce that we will be using Get Satisfaction to help manage and improve the dialog between us and people interested in ...

Transparency Book Interview

Our friend, John C. Havens, over at BlogTalkRadio.com is writing a book about Transparency and the media tentatively titled "Media 2.Open: Tactics for Transparency" and asked us for an interview. Being our first book interview and how much we like John (and of course, the book idea), we were ...

Vote for us on KillerStartups.com!

We got a nice review from the folks over at KillerStartups.com today. KillerStartups focuses on reviewing sites that they feel have the potential to be great businesses and then let their users vote for which are the best. They did a quick review of our site, list some ...

Shhh…BeenVerified Profiles Work as OpenID Too!

***Update 4/27/08: As of the new release of BeenVerified, OpenID is not currently supported. We are currently discussing how we would like to best implement OpenID and with the announcements of Yahoo and AOL, it seems that there are plenty of places for people to have access to free OpenID's. ...