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  • Dissection of a viral launch

    Many of you asked, so I decided to write this blog post, dissecting the launch of iubenda and the viral system we invented. The base graph To date we have 2700 waiting list subscribers and 1700 registered users. The product is still private, and only a couple hundred beta testers can use the product today. The…

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  • A brand new version: sneak peek

    Many of you are surely wondering what’s happening under the hood. This post will show some shots about what we are working on. What you’re about to see is just a preview, but the release is not far 😉 A new amazingly amazing iubenda: new design and new features We are working with Jonno Riekwel…

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  • Announcing seed investment, new invitation system, beta invitations from July 1st

    Today iubenda is happy to release the biggest announcement of his history (so far): But what is iubenda? iubenda allows anyone to generate a Privacy Policy for his website, something like this. We aim to be the Creative Commons of Privacy Policies, our Privacy Policy can be embedded on any website (after a bit of…

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  • European Union, Directives and Privacy

    During the past days there’s been a lot of buzz around an article posted on TechCrunch Europe, claiming horrible things about the next European E-Privacy directive. The truth is that that article was an exaggeration. Here some resources to understand what’s happening: This comment to the main article, and this further one by the same…

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  • Random Updates about Iubenda

    Dear early followers, I think you are worth an update about our project of Privacy Policy generator for websites, plus some recent events. We are working like machines! StartCup, Business Plan Competition In September we applied for a local business plan competition called StartCup, joining the material already written for our future investors in an…

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  • Google Buzz users received updates on the class action against the social network

    Image by geehall2 via Flickr If you are one of the millions of people using Gmail, you probably know that Google launched Buzz, its own social network. Launching it, Google made a great mistake, automatically enrolling Gmail users in Buzz and publicly exposing users’ data and their Gmail contacts without their consent. Many people were…

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  • User Story Mapping: our choice as feature listing method

    User Story Mapping: our choice as feature listing method

    This blog talks about Web and Privacy, but as you probably know our main activity is to build Iubenda, a privacy policy generator for websites. During the next days we’ll probably end our thinking-period, spent on the crucial activity of studying our market and each detail of our future product. In these days, iubenda officially…

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  • New Self-Codes Regulate Behavioral Marketing and Advertising

    Some days ago Maneesha Mithal, the FTC’s associate director of the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, said that the current methods for notifying consumers when their data is being collected are inadequate. FTC released a report which recommends that users must be notified at the time their data is collected, while now they are aware…

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  • Showcase and Resources about Freemium Business Model

    Showcase and Resources about Freemium Business Model

    Introduction Thanks to this post I begin the writing of a new section of this blog, called Startup Corner. In this category we will write about the development of our startup project: Iubenda, a legal generator (mainly privacy policies) for websites, that highly automates the generation process making it simple and painless. We will also talk…

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  • The WSJ starts What They Know, a new initiative about Privacy

    Some day ago, the Wall Street Journal started a new initiative called What They Know. The WSJ created a website filled with the results of a recent research about Privacy and most visited websites. The graph below shows, in a captivating way, the amount of Cookies and Beacons (we’ll write about them soon) the scanned…

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