{"id":32158,"date":"2011-08-22T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T08:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=32158"},"modified":"2011-08-22T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T08:18:42","slug":"google-introduces-id-verification-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/32158-google-introduces-id-verification-badges.html","title":{"rendered":"Google+ introduces ID verification badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> is adding ID verification for public figures and for those who have been added by many of the social networking site\u2019s users as contacts.<\/p>\n<p>The verification process is to help members of the site identify the official profiles or public figures such as actors, singers and politicians, as well as popular Google+ users.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you visit the profile of a celebrity or public figure, you&#8217;ll see a verification badge next to their profile name. This will help you easily determine which profiles are owned by real, verified people,&#8221; wrote <a title=\"Wen-Ai Yu\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/359510-Wen-Ai-Yu\">Wen-Ai Yu<\/a>, a Google official, on the company\u2019s blog.<\/p>\n<p>Verified user accounts will feature a gray checkmark inside a lighter-gray circle next to the person&#8217;s profile name.<\/p>\n<p>The verification process is in line with Google\u2019s policy where site members need to create profiles with their real names, to promote a more trustworthy environment than on other sites where members make use of pseudonyms.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"PC World news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/238540\/google_introduces_identityverification_badges.html\" target=\"_blank\">PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is adding badges that will verify the identity of Google+ users, starting with public figures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[167,2812,3946],"class_list":["post-32158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-google-plus","tag-wen-ai-yu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32160,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32158\/revisions\/32160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}