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 [...]

Just a reminder, IIW 2008b is coming up fast.  Things have been getting really hot in the space lately and a lot of conversations have been happening around usability, identifiers, security, etc…  A lot of work has been done and I know quite a few folks are planning on showing up with some serious data, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It certainly snuck up on us, but the next Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) is right around the corner, next week in fact. Taking place at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, the semi-annual gathering will include panels and presentations dealing with developing, using, and maintaining user-centric identities on the web — and of [...]