Archive for 2008/10


MyVidoop outage 11/1/2008 11pm PST

We will be taking an extended outage on Saturday 11/1/2008 starting at 11pm PST to upgrade capacity and increase reliability of MyVidoop.com. We are scheduling this outage for 3 hours but hoping to have it completed much sooner than that.
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Spreading the news at Finovate 2008

Vidoop headed out to the Big Apple last week for Finovate 2008, and after seven minutes of presentation, eleven media interviews, 50+ partner and customer meetings, 12 hours of round-trip flying and 5,000 miles of total travel, Mitch Savage and I are back home in Portland.
Finovate marked the launch of our expanded Vidoop Secure login [...]

What it’s gonna take for my mom to use OpenID

So there has been a lot of talk lately around OpenID, the user experience, how we make it better, Facebook Connect, Oauth, and the future of Identity on the “social web”.  Yahoo and Google both recently released usability data.  The results didn’t pull any punches and exposed some serious user experience problems with the way [...]

Big Things for Internet Identity Workshop 2008b

Just a reminder, IIW 2008b is coming up fast.  Things have been getting really hot in the space lately and a lot of conversations have been happening around usability, identifiers, security, etc…  A lot of work has been done and I know quite a few folks are planning on showing up with some serious data, [...]