identity

Liveblogging the New Yahoo CEO Call: You Might Want to Refrain From Cussing, Scott!

Kara Swisher in News on January 4 at 7:01 am PT

Mind your P’s and Q’s and Y’s too!

4chan Founder Chris Poole: It’s Not That I Love Anonymity, It’s That I Hate Facebook’s Identity Requirements

Liz Gannes in Social on October 17, 2011 at 4:55 pm PT

“We all have multiple identities. It’s not abnormal; it’s just part of being human,” 4chan founder Christopher Poole said at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Superman vs. Google+ (Comic)

Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on August 31, 2011 at 4:59 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

Airbnb Pumps Up Security With New Hires and Guarantees

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 15, 2011 at 11:40 am PT

Airbnb continues to roll out new security features at a breakneck pace to thwart mounting concerns over whether the site is a safe way to rent out your primary residence to travelers.

Janrain Raises $15.5M for Social Log-ins

Liz Gannes in Social on August 2, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

Managing online identities used to be a niche cause full of acronyms and hypotheticals, but now that the Web is getting more personalized it’s become obvious how integral this topic is.

Google Acquires Zetawire for Mobile Payments Tech

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 13, 2010 at 2:37 pm PT

Google has acquired Zetawire, a Toronto-based start-up that has been working on technology that turns a cellphone into a virtual wallet.

Is My Email Address My Identity?

Liz Gannes in Social on November 10, 2010 at 9:46 pm PT

As a larger question in the battle between Facebook and Google over data reciprocity, what captivates me is how much value people are putting on user email addresses. Are our email addresses really the best proxy for who we are?

BoomTown Tries to Get Some Answers From Quora's Adam D'Angelo

Kara Swisher in News on October 11, 2010 at 10:56 am PT

Adam D’Angelo is too shy to subject himself to a BoomTown video–or perhaps too savvy–but he did agree to a sit-down for a short interview recently in a nondescript room in the Palo Alto, Calif., office building that houses Quora, the hot social answers start-up. D’Angelo was, of course, the CTO and VP of Engineering at Facebook, as well as a prep school friend of the massive social networking site’s co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

The "Catfish"–A.K.A. the Other Facebook Movie–Dudes Speak!

Kara Swisher in News on September 3, 2010 at 10:37 am PT

Last night, BoomTown got to grill some “Catfish”–as in the three young hipsters responsible for the new documentary about a twisted online romance on Facebook. That was for a Q&A after a screening in San Francisco, where I got to talk to Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost and the film’s subject, Nev Schulman, about how they decided to make this rumination about identity in the digital age.

AT&T Responds to BoomTown Privacy Breach Via Email (Oh, the Irony!)

Kara Swisher in News on June 11, 2010 at 7:53 am PT

Earlier today, I wrote a piece about how I was one of the 114,000 AT&T customers whose email and device identity numbers had been easily exposed earlier this week, via a flaw in the way the company registered the Apple iPad 3G for cellular access. I also complained that I had yet to hear from the telecom giant. And lo and behold, it responded. Regrets? AT&T has a few.