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DiSo Project Figures Messina and Norris Join Vidoop
Chris Messina and Will Norris, two leading community figures working on distributed social networking, identity and data portability, are joining the staff of OpenID provider Vidoop, the company will announce soon. Messina and Norris have been working on a project called DiSo, an umbrella group working to bring open source distributed social networking technologies to market. They will continue the same work, now as a part of Vidoop. The company provides user login functionality to both consumer and enterprise web publishers, using an innovative system based on image recognition to replace passwords.
OpenID Usability: Two Solutions That Could Take OpenID Mainstream
There's big news in the OpenID world; new solutions are hitting the market that aim to solve probably the biggest problem the paradigm faces - usability.
JanRain, owners of MyOpenID.com, and ConfidentTechnologies are both making announcements that could help make OpenID much friendlier. Confident is the half of Vidoop that serves enterprise and financial institutions.
Vidoop Hires OpenID Foundation Chair Scott Kveton
Tulsa, Oklahoma based authentication service Vidoop announced today that it has hired Scott Kveton, Chair of the OpenID Foundation, to be the company's VP of Open Platforms and the Director of the company's new West Coast office in Portland, Oregon. With the move Kveton ends a short run at the heavily funded and very interesting MyStrands recommendation service, a development that raises some questions about that otherwise strong looking operation.
The addition of Kveton to its staff should push Vidoop into the public consciousness in a big way, concerning OpenID and open platforms.
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