Scott Blomquist

There have been some good blog conversations lately about myVidoop.com and Vidoop Secure (over at Judi Sohn’s Web Worker Daily review of myVidoop, or Carleen Hawn’s write-up over at GigaOM for example).

There are several really good questions that get asked often. I figured I’d collect them all here so that I have one place that I can point people toward the next time I encounter similar questions.

What’s the difference between Vidoop, Vidoop Secure, and myVidoop.com?

Vidoop is a Tulsa,-OK-based technology company. (We call Oklahoma the Silicon Prairie. I hear that other people call where they’re from the Silicon Prairie, too. But I think ours is the real one.)

Vidoop Secure is our authentication technology (which is available to license as an easy-to-use, low-cost, authentication technology and can be configured to provide strong two-factor security and can even completely replace passwords).

myVidoop.com is our free consumer Identity service that allows you to test-drive the Vidoop Secure technology and manage your usernames and passwords for the entire internet.

How does Vidoop Secure work?

The core of the Vidoop Secure authentication mechanism is a grid of images where each image is chosen to represent a particular category (for example, “cats” or “telephones” or “food”). When a user signs up for an account, instead of choosing a secret password, he chooses a set of 3-5 secret categories (let’s use “cars”, “boats”, and “flowers”).
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