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Spreading the news at Finovate 2008

Vidoop headed out to the Big Apple last week for Finovate 2008, and after seven minutes of presentation, eleven media interviews, 50+ partner and customer meetings, 12 hours of round-trip flying and 5,000 miles of total travel, Mitch Savage and I are back home in Portland.
Finovate marked the launch of our expanded Vidoop Secure login [...]

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 [...]

The first wave of Vidoop’rs is arriving…

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 [...]

myVidoop Improvements

Here are a few features that we’ve added:

Import your Pavatar from Flickr, Twitter, Digg, or websites that have Pavatar support; or upload your own avatar
Faster logins when signing in to OpenID enabled sites and activating the myVidoop plugin
Favicons caching of saved sites to allow for quicker loading of the Sites tab
Stability and bug fixes

Let us [...]

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 [...]

Making OpenID easier to use and more secure… all at once

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 [...]

We are looking for feedback on myVidoop, you interested?

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. [...]

OpenID Buttons - Friend or Foe?

The general consensus around OpenID login buttons is that they are a positive step forward. Buttons simplify the login process and are a necessary step to abstract OpenID from the login process, making it easy enough for anyone to use. We all know the context switch between a relying party and the member’s [...]

One incremental step for Ma.gnolia, one large step for OpenID

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 [...]

What is Add Anywhere (and why you might care)?

Nestled among the many changes to myVidoop introduced last week was a new feature called Add Anywhere, which adds a stopgap solution for anyone who is not using a supported browser or any person who cannot install the plugin. We think this is particularly exciting because it lets us make it easier for people who [...]