Lloyds TSB is the fifth-largest banking group in the UK, but the bank’s recent actions prove it still cares about the little guy. When it isn’t partnering to sponsor the London Olympics in 2012, or recognizing the contribution of Asians to British society via the Asian Jewel Awards, the banking giant enjoys rooting through customer records and changing passwords it finds offensive, then refusing to change them back.

Best Comment Evar: “Ahh, don’t forget Videoop personnel will get that dose of coastal morality (lack thereof), absence of graciousness , and just Nice People … good luck Vidoop. We will welcome you back if you decide to return. Enjoy the hippies.”

Chrome supports the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI), but does not support the embedding of ActiveX controls. Also, Chrome does not have an extension system such as Mozilla-compatible *.xpi cross-platform extension architecture and thus XPI-based extensions such as AdBlock and GreaseMonkey can not be adapted to Chrome.

This means: no easy way to port the openinfocard id selector nor the browser add-on to Google Chrome. Maybe I should take some time to revive my openinfocard plugin subproject… Or I should start to put IDentity In the Browser and change the Chrome source code…?

No…

we?places is for bookmarking and sharing places you’d love to visit. Supports OpenID so you can check it out right now…

Three Key Insights from Scott Kveton of Vidoop

1. Bacon is the candy of meats.
2. We can call spammers our enemies.
3. Youtube didn’t exist during the last election.

Vidoop, a startup recently imported from Oklahoma, arrives in Portland on Sunday evening after roughly 40 employees, family members and friends complete their move, en masse, from Oklahoma City.

They’ve been roughly following the Oregon Trail all week, and will soon set up shop in Old Town.

You’d swear these guys were rockstars with all the attention they’ve been getting for moving their software company from Tulsa to Portland. But, the reality is that it truly is something special with their company, Vidoop, which makes secure password manager software used by banks, financial institutions, and millions of users. The first thing that makes them cool is that they’ve opened up shop in the heart of Portland’s Social Media center in Old Town - the Technology + Arts Building - between Couch St and Davis St on NW 5th Ave (full disclosure: they are right downstairs from us at eROI. The second cool thing about Vidoop is that there are 45 fully geeky geeks who have embraced their inner-geekdom and absolutely love what they do - I’ve only hung out w/ the 6 or 7 Vidoopians who’ve been in the Portland office the past couple months, but Luke, Joel, Scott, Kevin, Mitch, and Matt are pretty sharp and already involved in Portland software scene.

“The new .mp and .tel top-level domains, intended to serve as vehicle for personal identification, are being premiered this week. Though similar in purpose, the two are very different in function.”

“OpenID is your universal login name which server as single sign on (SSO) to authenticate yourself on other blogs and websites, without ever filling out those registration forms again. It is simply a URL that can be used to sign in to any website that supports OpenID. My openID is TECK.IN, that means I can login with this URL to any sites supporting OpenID.”

“I’ve had the great fortune of working at two consecutive companies that force you to change your password every 3 months. Whenever the rollover date hits, I change EVERY password that I use.”

Good article about how OpenID is not really that hard…

PORTLAND, Ore., BUSINESS WIRE — Vidoop, a provider of identity and authentication solutions to financial institutions and consumers, announced today the company and its employees now call Portland, Ore. home. Vidoop, which was originally founded in Tulsa, Okla., moved 42 people, eight pets, five U-HAUL(R) trucks, four RVs, two trailers, two cars, one camera crew and one blueberry bush to Portland during a five-day road trip ending Sun., Sept. 7.

Moving yourself and possibly your family is one thing, but moving an entire company and a rock band is an ox of a different color. Vidoop, a software company from Tulsa, OK, arrived in Portland last night with 42 people, 4 RVs and 5 U-Halls after a five-day caravan. Fortunately, they documented the whole thing in text and video on their Oregon Trail blog.

When does Vidoop talk to Miss. Tweet… err Twitter…

“Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for September 7th”