The OpenID Foundation just announced the results of the annual board elections and two of Vidoop’s employees voted in: Chris Messina and Scott Kveton. Chris was elected to a two year term and Scott a one year term.
Vidoop continues to sponsor the efforts of Chris and Scott helping to develop OpenID and grow its [...]
Scott Kveton, Mitchell Savage and others are heading down to LA for Digital ID World 2008.
There will be an awesome panel on Wednesday, September 10th at 3pm about ‘How The Social Web Will Change Enterprise Identity Management.’ This session will be an interactive panel with experts from the emerging field of the Social Web who [...]
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…
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Over the past three years we’ve seen tremendous growth and increased adoption of OpenID. OpenID is quickly becoming the de-facto identity currency on the web but one of the biggest criticisms is its lack of usability. We’ve been thinking long and hard about this for the past few months at Vidoop and today [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]