We are in the process of taking a good hard look at the way personal information is currently shared online. When we speak of personal information, we are referring to your name, age, date of birth, education, work experience, credit score, address, professional licenses etc. etc. etc. Basically, the things ...
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 ...
An article in the Sun Times discusses the failure of the credit protection service, Lifelock, for protecting it's very own CEO, Todd Davis, from the abuse it's designed to protect. According to the article, there were 87 instances where people tried to use Davis's social security number for dubious ...
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 ...
Some interesting stories coming out of South by Southwest today, but none more appropriate for us here at BeenVerified than the media frenzy surrounding the chaos of Zuckerberg's keynote interview and his admittance that Facebook messed up when it comes to user privacy. The Wired Magazine article, "SXSW: Zuckerberg ...
VisionWiz writes a summary of start-up companies on his blog and posted a summary of BeenVerified, titled "BeenVerified---Now You Can Trust Internet Profiles". I wanted to pass this along because I think that line makes a great point about BeenVerified. Prior to the launch of our service, it ...
Everyday we are amazed at the stories of identity that circulate around the net and we say to ourselves "jeez, BeenVerified would have been nice there". What's amazing about this story is how fast it circulated and how passionate people have been over it. For those who haven't been ...
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 ...
***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. ...
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 ...
