In the last few months, Vidoop Labs has been having a lot of conversations.  And today we are very happy to announce the fruits of one.  OpenID for Flock, jointly developed by Flock, Vidoop, and MySpace has launched.  OpenID for Flock is based on the Vidoop Labs project, Identity in the Browser (IDIB).  You can [...]

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 [...]

Over the past few years we’ve seen the adoption of OpenID continue to increase but the work that we’ve done as a community to develop this technology has only just begun. Looking at the landscape of OpenID adoption, its clear that there are several key factors inhibiting adoption, but two that we want to focus [...]