GetUnvarnished.com The site to air ones grievances publicly.
What the heck is Unvarnished.com?
March 30, 2010 Unvarnished.com makes its beta debut. It’s essentially Yelp for LinkedIn: any user can create an online profile for a professional and submit anonymous reviews. You can claim your profile, but unlike LinkedIn, you have to accept every post, warts and all. And once the profile is up there’s no taking it down.
Created by co-founder, Peter Kazanjy, Unvarnished.com is a service that depends (and ultimately profits) on digital paranoia and our growing anxiety when it comes to our online identity. Doesn’t give you the warm fuzzies but (as Mike Arrington points out in “Reputation is Dead”) it is perhaps a logical evolution of social media. The site’s fundamental concept is not new iKarma.com, Jerk.com, but Unvarnished has the best interface to attract a large community of professionals.
"For now, the site is invite-only beta. You can either join the nebulous waiting list or you can wait for a private alpha user (a group of roughly 1,000) to request a review from you via Facebook. Once you connect and submit a post your account is active and you are free to claim your profile, create a new profile, invite users and submit as many anonymous reviews as your little heart desires. There are roughly 400,000 profiles in the database with the vast majority from Silicon Valley." Evelyn Rusli for Tech Crunch, Mar 30, 2010
Contact Info:
- Unvarnished, Inc.
- 440 Scott St.
- San Francisco, CA 94117
