Dream Team Open Source Veterans Hired by Vidoop

Chris Messina, Open-source advocate, and Will Norris, software engineer, joined Vidoop, Tulsa-based OpenID and online multifactor authentication provider.

President and CEO of Vidoop, Joel Norvell, declared: "Messina and Norris are considered thought leaders in their field". "They will help deliver and promote the next generation of social networking tools based on open protocols. These tools add great functionality for the user and reinforce Vidoop's role in the secure OpenID space."

The work they have been leading with the DiSo Project (http://diso-project.org ) will be continued by Messina and Norris. DiSo - distributed social networking applications, is an umbrella development for a group of open source components such as OpenID and XMPP that will lead to the development of user- portable social networks, controlled distributed social networking concepts and user data portability.

Vidoop's VP of Open Platforms, Scott Kveton, commented: "The open protocols that make up DiSo, such as OpenID, are quickly gaining traction across the internet". "Vidoop will be using these protocols to integrate DiSo functionality into its OpenID provider, myVidoop.com, and will continue to secure these IDs through its unique image based technology. "

Chris Messina is known for helping to advance such community efforts as "BarCamp", "Spread Firefox", and open web standards initiatives such as "OpenID", "OAuth" and "Microformats".

Working actively with "OpenID", "Shibboleth", and "MicroID". Norris is also the author of the technology that provides OpenID support for Wordpress, Will Norris has been active in the realm of identity management.

Vidoop, an online authentication and identity provider established in March 2006 that has both consumer and enterprise solutions was founded by Joel Norvell and Luke Sontag. Incorporating corporate-grade login security to consumers at no cost, myVidoop.com is an online identity provider and password management solution. ConfIdent Technologies was created to address the unique needs of financial institutions by providing enterprise-level, multi-factor authentication solutions.