myVidoop is sending some developers over to our hosting company today. They will be diagnosing why some of you may have been experiencing server hiccups yesterday. So if you notice another hiccup today, do not worry, it’s the good kind that means something is getting improved.

For those of you who are curious, myVidoop.com [...]

Here are a few features that we’ve added:

Import your Pavatar from Flickr, Twitter, Digg, or websites that have Pavatar support; or upload your own avatar
Faster logins when signing in to OpenID enabled sites and activating the myVidoop plugin
Favicons caching of saved sites to allow for quicker loading of the Sites tab
Stability and bug fixes

Let us [...]

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 [...]

Luke Crouch is a developer working at SourceForge on the site engineering team. For those who do not know already SourceForge recently announced they are supporting OpenID as a relying party.
Scott and Luke talk about why SourceForge went OpenID, their support of the Open Source community, identity (why IDP vs. RP) and what issues [...]

The timing was serendipitous; we just got everything locked down here in the office, W+K had to reschedule, Dawn Foster introduced me to Jake Kuramoto at BarCampPortland, the result… Vidoop will be hosting Lunch 2.0 on Wednesday, May 28th 2008.
Lunch 2.0 started in Silicon Valley, though has made it’s way up the coast and [...]

myVidoop had an outage this morning from around 8.30am until 9.15am CST. It has been fixed now. We apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE 04/24/08 10:50AM
Out-of-Band voice call is currently down. We are working hard to get it back up. We expect a few hours of down time and apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE 04/24/08 4:55PM
Our [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

We’re upgrading the servers that send phone call messages for myVidoop.com. That means that users won’t be able to receive out-of-band phone calls during browser activation or contact verification during the downtime.
The outage will start at 5:30pm and may last until 10pm.
Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for using myVidoop.com!
UPDATE 8:43PM
Phone service is back [...]