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Digital ID World (DIDW) Panel Confirmed

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 [...]

‘The Oregon Trail’ has hit the road…

Check out all the tweets, pictures, videos, updates, and more at: http://blog.vidoop.com/oregontrail/
At the end of the journey, points will be awarded according to a formula weighted by the Vidooper’s profession (points are doubled for a developer and tripled for anyone in @Sontag’s RV), the number and health of surviving family/band members, remaining possessions, and [...]

Bridging Identity in the Browser with OpenID & Information Cards

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 [...]

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 [...]

‘How do you Identify’ Contest is over… the winner is open source!

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 [...]

 
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Vidoop hires Open Source Veterans Chris Messina and Will Norris

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 [...]

Scott Kveton interviews Luke Crouch from SourceForge about OpenID

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 [...]

 
 Luke Crouch from SourceForge interviewed by Scott Kveton: Play Now | Play in Popup

Couch St. is the scene of another Lunch 2.0 thanks to Vidoop

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 [...]

Good times keep rollin’ along at Vidoop’s Portland Office

After a fun filled week in San Francisco getting learn-ed on the Web 2.0 we are back in the Silicon Forest aka Portland. So far (other than the weather) this week is shaping up nicely.
Aaron Hockley’s post about only using OpenID has been a great catalyst for discussion. Specifically what is going on [...]