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Vidoop - Tulsa, Oklahoma
By Rob | May 23, 2007
One of the hottest companies of the year comes from a city with less than 400,000 people. Vidoop is making waves at conferences, trade shows, and all over the web with their visual password technology for better system security.
People are lax with their passwords, so I think this is a great way to improve security without complicating life for users. No one wants to change their password every three months to something that differs by at least 3 characters and so on. Vidoop solves a real problem, so I think the company has a bright future. At the Web 2.0 Expo, Vidoop was called the best new IT product of 2007. We’ll soon see if it lives up to that billing.
You can view the Vidoop TV spot below.
Outside the Valley Score
Location: Tulsa, OK = 3
Founders: Experienced = 1
Technology:Some new technology = 1
Funding: Principals and a few private investors = 2
Total Score – 7.0 Definitely outside the valley, and of all the companies we’ve reviewed so far, this is the one that I think has the best chance of long-term success. It could be transformational event for Tulsa.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Hey Rob.
Thanks for blogging about Vidoop! We love it in Tulsa, and it’s great to surprise people when they find out that we’re from Oklahoma, of all places.
If you’d like to try the system out, drop me a line and I’d be happy to get you a beta code for myVidoop.com, our OpenID implementation.
George