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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Vidoop / ConfIdent Technologiesâ„¢ will be exhibiting at this years InnoTech Oregon. Come see us at booth 506 and learn about our cool online security and identity technologies.
“InnoTech, celebrating 5 years as the region’s most comprehensive business and technology event, offers two full days of conference sessions (Wednesday, April 16 & Thursday, April [...]
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 [...]
Today marks the second year in Vidoop history and what an exciting two years it has been. We’ve managed to hire some of the best talent in the industry and launched what I believe to be a truly innovative technology called Vidoop ImageShield which is already being used by fortune 500 companies. [...]
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 [...]