Portland’s gracious and enthusiastic welcome to Vidoop has been terrific for all of us at the company. Here less than two months later, the economic reality facing companies everywhere seemed remote, given our momentum and the exciting projects we are working on. But today, we had to face that reality, and tell several members [...]
We will be taking an extended outage on Saturday 11/1/2008 starting at 11pm PST to upgrade capacity and increase reliability of MyVidoop.com. We are scheduling this outage for 3 hours but hoping to have it completed much sooner than that.
Please let us know if you have any questions/comments/concerns here.
Thank you for using MyVidoop!
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 [...]
myVidoop is sending some developers over to our hosting company today. They will be diagnosing why some of you may have been experiencing server hiccups yesterday. So if you notice another hiccup today, do not worry, it’s the good kind that means something is getting improved.
For those of you who are curious, myVidoop.com [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The timing was serendipitous; we just got everything locked down here in the office, W+K had to reschedule, Dawn Foster introduced me to Jake Kuramoto at BarCampPortland, the result… Vidoop will be hosting Lunch 2.0 on Wednesday, May 28th 2008.
Lunch 2.0 started in Silicon Valley, though has made it’s way up the coast and [...]
myVidoop had an outage this morning from around 8.30am until 9.15am CST. It has been fixed now. We apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE 04/24/08 10:50AM
Out-of-Band voice call is currently down. We are working hard to get it back up. We expect a few hours of down time and apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE 04/24/08 4:55PM
Our [...]