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 [...]

Vidoop is worldwide securing your inter-tubes…
Though in a more physical sense the majority of the Vidoop team is gearing up for the ‘Oregon Trail’ trip and move to Portland. More (videos, pictures, tweets) will be posted on a dedicated site that will be up as the convoy progresses towards the Rose City. Stay tuned…
We [...]

While speculations abound, it is indeed true that Chris Messina and Scott Kveton from Vidoop, along with many, many others, have been working hard over the last few months to help create the Open Web Foundation (OWF). Vidoop is excited to be so involved in an organization that is going to really help ease [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Now is your chance to help us make myVidoop the best OpenID provider / password manager ever!
Please check out our profile on BzzAgent’s Frogpond, use the different features of your myVidoop account (I really like the password manager) then give us your opinion. If you have time there is a very quick poll as well. [...]

Just a quick post to let everyone know about some cool upcoming events, The Data Sharing Workshop and the Data Sharing Summit 2008. These are great community centric events that bring together people from several walks of on-line life; social networking, identity folks, data portability, etc.
“The goal of these events is to work together [...]