Archive for the 'Authentication' Category


Strong authentication demo videos

We re-filmed the strong authentication demo videos, this time with audio. Check out our videos of Vidoop Secure in action: voice phone call, SMS message, or Vidoop ImageShield. Eric also updated his collection to point to the new videos.

Strong authentication on and off the web

In addition to the reasons I talked about in my previous post, there are other reasons that IIW2008b was a great conference for Vidoop. One of the major reasons is that exceptional progress has been made toward enabling web-based strong authentication to work in more places in the enterprise.

Eric Sachs, Google’s Security Product Manager, is [...]

Digital ID World (DIDW) Panel Confirmed

Scott Kveton, Mitchell Savage and others are heading down to LA for Digital ID World 2008.
There will be an awesome panel on Wednesday, September 10th at 3pm about ‘How The Social Web Will Change Enterprise Identity Management.’ This session will be an interactive panel with experts from the emerging field of the Social Web who [...]

Bridging Identity in the Browser with OpenID & Information Cards

Several of us here at Vidoop spend a lot of our time thinking about ways to help build an open standards based, interoperable, secure and usable identity layer for the web.  We work with a lot of great folks, each with their own set of goals and motives.  Interestingly, in the last few weeks there [...]

New myVidoop release includes form-filling plugin and more…

We’ve released a new version of myVidoop packed with new features. After getting lots of great feedback we are very pleased to be releasing updated versions of Vidoop.com and our identity provider myVidoop, including updates for our Firefox myVidoop plugin that does automatic form-filling for you!
That’s right, the (Firefox) plugin will now fill out [...]

User Experience on the Open Web

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 [...]

myVidoop passes the ‘fun’ security test

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 [...]

‘How do you Identify’ Contest is over… the winner is open source!

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 [...]

 
  All of me - How I identify: Play Now | Play in Popup

 
 That's Just Me: Play Now | Play in Popup

 
 What defines a hero?: Play Now | Play in Popup

 
 Finding Himself In A Thaumatrope 2008: Play Now | Play in Popup

 
 Vidoop Contest _ Embera indios (Choco): Play Now | Play in Popup

Vidoop hires Open Source Veterans Chris Messina and Will Norris

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 [...]

Online Password Manager available for Firefox 3

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 [...]