Simon Willison’s Weblog

hasAccount. Stuart proposes a light-weight API for letting any site know if a user has an account (and is signed in) on another service. I wouldn’t want to deploy this without being confident that my CSRF protection was in order. 9:10 am

Kosmos Distributed File System (via) New open source distributed filesystem similar to Google’s GFS. 9:12 am

OLPC Peru/Arahuay. A fascinating case study of the introduction of the XO to a school in Peru. It’s really exciting to see the project starting to make an impact. 11:56 pm