Archive for 2008/05


myVidoop text messaging outage

Our text messaging service provider has reported to us that their service is down. As a result, myVidoop cannot send or receive text messages today. We are working with our service provider to resolve this issue as fast as possible. We’ll keep you posted.
UPDATE: Service has been restored.  Some of you may [...]

User Experience on the Open Web

One of the most important aspects of any website is the user experience. On the web, the simpler the better. Simplicity always seems to win over features or anything else (examples: Google, Craigslist, Myspace, Facebook). As the Internet embraces openness and moves in the direction of allowing you to move your data [...]

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myVidoop passes the ‘fun’ security test

Fun Communications made a neat little site http://idtheft.fun.de/ that lets you mount a man-in-the-middle based phishing attack against your OpenID provider of choice. It is useful for testing and we would suggest people check out their own provider, the results may be interesting. Mike Jones used the site to check out a couple providers [...]

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Scheduled password service maintenance

At 10pm CST, our password service will be down for about 15 minutes while we update our servers. During this time you will not be able to retrieve or update any of your online password data. We’ll let you know when our update is complete.

Update: Server upgrade is complete.  Thanks for your patience.

We’re running some server updates

myVidoop.com will be down for a few minutes as we update our servers
UPDATED 6:24PM
All done.  Thanks for waiting.

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‘How do you Identify’ Contest is over… the winner is open source!

Yes indeed… Alex Polvi submitted an excellent video about how he identifies himself and won $1,000 that he is donating to the free open-source video platform, Miro. Vidoop will match this, bringing the total donation to Miro up to $2,000.
“Alex Polvi, friend of Miro and a community marketer for Mozilla, has won a Vidoop [...]

 
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Vidoop hires Open Source Veterans Chris Messina and Will Norris

It is official, long time OSS advocates and developers Chris Messina and Will Norris will be joining a Vidoop team that has been tasked with building a truly open distributed social networking infrastructure. They will continue to lead efforts with the DiSo Project (http://diso-project.org). DiSo - distributed social networking applications, is an umbrella [...]