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 [...]
With the last of us getting back from Austin it is time to get all of our interviews and pictures posted. This year’s SXSW Interactive conference was great, I think I can speak for everyone at Vidoop when I say we all had a great time and look forward to next year.
It is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It would appear that yet another large company is joining the OpenID bandwagon. According to them, Yahoo’s recent adoption of OpenID has quadrupled the number of OpenID users — or, at the very least, the number of OpenIDs floating around out there.
Let’s take a moment to ignore the usual, obvious questions that are raised here [...]
Just to recap, I’ve been writing about my philosophy of authentication, which I call sustainable authentication. So far, I’ve given two rules:
1. Authentication should remain relevant and viable in spite of advances in computing power.
2. The sustainable authentication system provides acceptable levels of security regardless of any user configuration.
The third and final principle of Sustainable [...]
In our second podcast George, Luke, and Scott sit down to chew the fat on the ifs, ands, and buts of what it would take, how the interent might look, etc. if everyone had corporate grade authentication…a great prelude to many titillating discussions to come.
Internet Explorer remains the most widely used web browser on the planet, with TheCounter.com stats tracking website recently reporting that IE is currently used by more than 81% of the world’s internet surfing population. Even so, while Mozilla Firefox users have for some time enjoyed the benefits of added security and convenience by using the [...]