Archive for the ‘Partners’ Category

What to Look For In 2009…or What Companies Will Survive the Coming “Economic Storm”

In recent weeks, we have seen a ton of commentary from people we hold in extremely high regard when it comes to managing and running successful startups or businesses. Jason Calacanis seemed to be the first to tip with this, and then we had this, this, this, and the one ...

The Problem with LinkedIn: Why “Peer Based Verification” Has its Limits

Meet Janet Jones. She is the Chief Marketing Officer of BeenVerified, she is a former marketing executive at Goldman Sachs and a Harvard Business School alum. Why don't you check her out on LinkedIn? Better yet, why don't you check out who is in Janet's ...

nextNYer’s Invade the Shack!

Tuesday night of Web2.0 Expo week was kicked off right with an awesome outdoor event in Madison Square Park, put together by Charlie O'Donnell of Path101 fame.  Charlie, thank you very much!...the party exceeded even our best expectations. The event was held for the nextNY community, which is a close-knit yet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...