Matt Selbie joins fast growing Tulsa-based online multifactor authentication provider, Vidoop, as Vice President of Marketing.

From Oregon Business Magazine: “The downturn, big or small, is here. The gloomy economic pronouncements are being made. And for a lot of tech startups in Silicon Forest, things couldn’t be better.”

Carsten muses on the possibilities of OpenID helping to make online shopping more user friendly.

Marshall posts the results of a study to determine the best days and times for a blog post to be submitted to those sites if its author wants it to receive the maximum number of votes, comments and inbound links.

If you have any interest in people seeing what you write/post read this…

· The article goes through different ways identity thieves are using social networks to: distribute spam, send out phishing e-mails, create fake accounts on social networking sites impersonating people, and distribute free harmful widgets.

· The free widgets can contain keystroke logging systems.

· University of Indiana did a research project where 72% of students clicked an e-mail link and entered in their university user names and passwords at a fake site.

· The shift with people moving from IE to Firefox and Safari is happening with hackers as well.

· Security.itworld.com has no IE bugs to report for the previous month but say Firefox and Safari have been hit hard.

· Firefox released two updates in the past six weeks fixing five security vulnerabilities.

· The most recent Safari update was used to patch 13 holes.

Explanation of OpenID and it’s place in the identity services stack.

“OpenID’s main aim is at providing a secure, scalable solution for the authentication service in the identity stack” … (cool diagram included) … “To a lesser extent, it also hopes to help the identity provider and authorization services by becoming a transport container for identity claims that drive these services.”

Excellent review of Vidoop, the myVidop OpenID provider, browser plugin, and explanation of how our ImageShield works. Please take a read and feel free to post a comment and let us know what you think!

It’s official SourceForge.net has become an OpenID relying party. It is nice to see a leader of the open source community adopting OpenID, looking forward to other sites taking the plunge…

· General article that introduces the concepts and use of OpenID.

· Compares the current state of the Internet to the time when people logged on to “walled gardens” through AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve and how open e-mail, allowing people to send mail to others regardless of their provider, was revolutionary.

· Now we are moving through another time in the Internet that is changing everything.

· “In the next phase of the Web, who you know becomes valuable to you and meaningful and accessible to you across any website, application, or device.”

Thanks for the post Rick, just to verify Fords and 5th will be catering and bacon will be flowing… We look forward to having everyone over and introducing some people from Tulsa Oklahoma to the Portland scene.