Nestled among the many changes to myVidoop introduced last week was a new feature called Add Anywhere, which adds a stopgap solution for anyone who is not using a supported browser or any person who cannot install the plugin. We think this is particularly exciting because it lets us make it easier for people who can’t use our plugin technology right now to still add passwords and log into websites using the passwords they have saved to the myVidoop database.

While admittedly the number of users likely to take advantage of this new functionality represents a small subset of myVidoop’s userbase, Add Anywhere is designed to assist these users by giving them at least a taste of what’s possible with the full fledged plugin solution. Examples of users who might look to Add Anywhere as a viable option include those who might not have administrative privileges for their web browser or those using IE or Safari as their web browser of choice.

All that said, there’s a common misconception that Add Anywhere is essentially the same thing as the plugin, just in a bookmark form, which is really not the case. Instead, it’s best described as a tool to make it easier to save usernames and passwords that can then be accessed by following a login link on myVidoop. It’s a functional solution, as it lets you only have to remember your myVidoop credentials to login to any site, but it’s not quite as convenient as using the plugin.

Also somewhat confusing is that the bookmarklet part of Add Anywhere – the part that runs the executable Javascript code on the web page – is only for adding passwords. All of the logic for logging into a website without a plugin is actually contained within myVidoop and not the bookmarklet. Whether it be the browser plugin or Add Anywhere, both of these solutions have the ability to bundle up a web form and save it onto myVidoop so that myVidoop knows how to log into a web page. Really the “logging into a web page” is a feature of myVidoop whereas “adding a password without a plugin” is a feature of Add Anywhere.

In essence, the Javascript’s job is just to scrape the web page, look at it, analyze it, find the username and password box, and then change the submit action of the form to point to myVidoop, including all of the information it needs in order to log in automatically. Knowing this, one area where we think Add Anywhere could be particularly useful is with iPhone users who have saved all of their passwords on their computer and find that they need to access them from anywhere, since they don’t need the bookmarklet to log into websites, only to add passwords.

All said, this is likely to be functionality that only a small number of you will ever invest heavily in, and while it lacks some of the appeal of the myVidoop plugin, using Add Anywhere is certainly better than using nothing at all, and we welcome your feedback as we constantly look to improve this functionality going forward.