Over the past three years we’ve seen tremendous growth and increased adoption of OpenID. OpenID is quickly becoming the de-facto identity currency on the web but one of the biggest criticisms is its lack of usability. We’ve been thinking long and hard about this for the past few months at Vidoop and today [...]
After an awesome company meeting in Tulsa, the first group of Vidoop peeps will arrive in Portland today! Lots of fun activities are planned, join us for Beer and Blog on Friday the 13th and hear @kveton and @mtrichardson explain DiSo. All the event info is here.
Then the entire Vidoop crew is going [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
After a fun filled week in San Francisco getting learn-ed on the Web 2.0 we are back in the Silicon Forest aka Portland. So far (other than the weather) this week is shaping up nicely.
Aaron Hockley’s post about only using OpenID has been a great catalyst for discussion. Specifically what is going on [...]