Archive for the ‘Announcements’ Category

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. ...

Blogger OpenID Commenting Goes Live!

Wow, talk about exciting times for OpenID. Two weeks ago, Blogger announced at IIW that they would be putting OpenID in draft mode of the blogger service. Well, it went live! Check out the announcement here. People can now start commenting on blogs run off the blogger platform using ...

Internet Identity Workshop 2007 Video Interviews

We provided quick video interviews for CenterNetworks of most of the major protocols and projects that were out in Mountain View this week at the Internet Identity Workshop. The videos came out pretty good and can be found at this post over at CenterNetworks. Was truly a great ...