“Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know quite how to fix it.” says the NYTimes. I beg to differ. I believe it is very clear what we need to do to combat online fraud. And the crazy thing is, an online gaming company is doing a better job of it than almost everyone [...]
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 [...]
So there has been a lot of talk lately around OpenID, the user experience, how we make it better, Facebook Connect, Oauth, and the future of Identity on the “social web”. Yahoo and Google both recently released usability data. The results didn’t pull any punches and exposed some serious user experience problems with the way [...]
Vidoop Labs launches today as a central place where we will be showcasing existing and future technology projects that we are investing in for the future of unified identity and dataportability on the open web. Existing projects are listed, but keep an eye out for several new initiatives we will be launching over the [...]
We’ve got some great upgrades to our service ready, but we’ll need to take the service offline to roll them out. So, myVidoop will be unavailable tomorrow morning (7/24/08) from 7am to 9am CDT. We’ll be introducing some new features which we’ll tell you about in a later blog post (or just check out the [...]
We are very proud that Chris Messina (aka @factoryjoe), a recent addition to the Vidoop team, has recently received the award for ‘best community amplifier’. You can read about the history and see past winners at the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame but the general idea is…
The Google-O’Reilly Open Source Awards have [...]
We’re proud to announce that Draft 5 of the Email Address to URL Transformation (EAUT) specification is now available. What does this mean to me you may be asking yourself? It means that coming soon to an OpenID login form near you, you will be able to use your email address as [...]
myVidoop.com will be down for server maintenance from 12am - 2am CDT July 18, 2008. We appologize for not posting this notice sooner.
Update: the maintenance window is actually from 12am - 4am CDT; we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Update: the maintenance has been completed and myvidoop.com is back online.
Our text messaging service provider has reported to us that their service is down. As a result, myVidoop cannot send or receive text messages today. We are working with our service provider to resolve this issue as fast as possible. We’ll keep you posted.
UPDATE: Service has been restored. Some of you may [...]
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 [...]