Archive for the ‘Transparency’ Category
August 4, 2008 – 10:16 am by Josh
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 ...
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March 10, 2008 – 1:34 pm by Josh
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 ...
Posted in Conferences, Oauth, Online Identity, Transparency | 3 Comments »
March 5, 2008 – 7:44 pm by Josh
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 ...
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January 18, 2008 – 6:16 pm by Josh
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 ...
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January 16, 2008 – 7:13 pm by Josh
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 ...
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January 9, 2008 – 5:10 pm by Josh
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 ...
Posted in Announcements, Customer Support, Transparency | 1 Comment »
January 3, 2008 – 7:51 pm by Josh
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 ...
Posted in Online Identity, Reputation, Transparency | 1 Comment »
January 2, 2008 – 7:50 pm by Josh
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 ...
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November 30, 2007 – 12:32 pm by Josh
Many of you know how we can often go off on countless tangents about privacy, security, and the right for the user to decide the who, what, when, where, and why information about them will be shown online. While it is easy for us to communicate to people ...
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