Archive for the ‘Press’ Category

Online Identity in the News Week of 3/2/09

Each week we post stories from around the web and media that detail how identity affects society and its importance. As always, feel free to post links you have found in the comments. Here is the roundup for the week of 3/01/2009: Background Checks Are The Final Step Before Hiring For ...

Online Identity in the News- Week of 2/16

Each week we post stories from around the web and media that detail how identity affects society and its importance. As always, feel free to post links you have found in the comments. Here is the roundup for the week of 2/16/2009: Facebook's Zuckerberg Calms Privacy Fears Over TOS Change Anything you ...

Online Identity in the News- Week of 2/9

Each week we post stories from around the web and media that detail how identity effects society and its importance. As always, feel free to post links you have found in the comments. Here is the roundup for the week of 2/9/2009: Fake Social Network Profiles: a New Form of Identity ...

The BeenVerified Team Live on CNET’s “The 404″ Show

We spent the morning at CNET's "The 404" Show and it was awesome. These guys are funny, smart, and get exactly what's going on in technology. Since we spend 20 hours a day in the office it was nice to get out and have some fun with their crew. We ...

Background Checks 2.0: Official Launch of InSight, Employer Background Checking Service

Today is the official launch of InSight, our service which was built specifically for employers. We started a year ago with the goal to build a more trusted web. We feel this service is a great step forward in doing so. You can read the official press release on MarketWatch ...

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 ...

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 ...

With BeenVerified, “Now You Can Trust Internet Profiles”!

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 ...

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 ...