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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A new version of the myVidoop online password manager for Firefox is now available.
This updated version includes:
Support for Firefox 3
Cleaner notification shown when asking to autofill or remember a password
Many improvements ‘under the hood’.
If you already have the plugin installed simply go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Add-ons’ and then click “Find Updates”.
Otherwise you can download it [...]
With the launch of ID Selector the OpenID community has hopefully staved off an epidemic of button proliferation and made the technology much easier to use. The feedback has been very positive so far, and it looks like we may have a winner. This is a positive step toward making OpenID a technology [...]
It was just last year that the beta version of myVidoop was launched at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco. Now here we are a year later and the technology has spawned an entirely new company (ConfIdent Technologies LLC), we have a new office in Portland OR, some promising new hires, and well.. lets just [...]
The founders of Vidoop launched ConfIdent Technologies LLC this week at the RSA conference. ConfIdentâ„¢ will work to serve the unique needs of the enterprise customer. ConfIdent Technologiesâ„¢ is a completely separate company and is going to license it’s RecoginitionAUTHâ„¢ technology to financial institutions, e-commerce websites, and corporations for use on VPN and [...]
Now is your chance to help us make myVidoop the best OpenID provider / password manager ever!
Please check out our profile on BzzAgent’s Frogpond, use the different features of your myVidoop account (I really like the password manager) then give us your opinion. If you have time there is a very quick poll as well. [...]
What? So this is a big leap for Ma.gnolia and OpenID… everyone’s favorite social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia has changed their join and sign-in pages and will now require users to sign up with a verified identity before they can contribute to the Ma.gnolia community…
Why such a change? Here is an excerpt from their most recent [...]