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 [...]

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 [...]

This weekend (Saturday 3/29/2008 to be exact) we’ll be doing a demo of myVidoop and our ImageShield security technology during Startupalooza at CubeSpace in Portland, OR. If you’re in town and interested in learning more, by all means, come and join us!
Startupalooza is another fantastic event from Legion of Tech, a group of technologists [...]

Today marked a new release for myVidoop… so what’s new?
-. A new site tour: a brief yet detailed explanation of what you can do with your myVidoop account
-. Quicker registration/enrollment flow: we want creation of your myVidoop OpenID account to be easy and painless, let us know if it’s not!
-. Improved ‘Account Contacts’ and ‘Browsers’ [...]

We are undergoing server maintenance. Will get myVidoop back up as soon as possible.
Update: myVidoop is back in business. Upgrade process continues.
Update: 9:25pm CST. Some users have reported difficulty in logging in, we are furiously implementing the fix for this.
Update: 9:45pm CST.  We’ve squashed any bugs that may have been preventing access.  Everything [...]

As a regular user of the intertubes I am always looking for ways to make my web browsing a quicker and simpler experience. Here are a couple tips I have come up with…
1. Get an OpenID. True, not all sites support it, but for the ones that do using your OpenID to login [...]

myVidoop will be participating in the OSIS Interoperability Testing that is happening now through the RSA Conference in April.
From the site:

As compared to previous OSIS interoperability events, we are moving from specific prototypes offered for interoperability “days” to perpetual interoperability environments, as the open identity network grows. Sites are highly encouraged to remain permanently up [...]

We’ll be out in force at SXSW Interactive this weekend. In addition to sponsoring BarCamp Austin III, we’ll also be busy on the floor at our booth (stop by for some cool SWAG!) we’ll also be roaming around the conference and all over Austin doing video interviews with attendees about things happening on the [...]

Google announced their long-awaited health record system yesterday. Reaction was certainly mixed but the common theme emerging from the blogosphere was: “How are we going to protect this valuable information?” From the release:

Each health profile, including information about prescriptions, allergies and medical histories, will be protected by a password that’s also required to [...]

Back in April when we launched our company at the Web 2.0 Expo, we made the statement that we intended to share advertising revenue with OpenID enabled Relying Parties. Thanks to our many advertising partners, we are excited to announce that on January 1, 2008 we will begin paying members of the Vidoop Affiliates [...]