OpenIDMonday, 5th January 2009
Talking about OpenID. “So a relying party walks in to a bar...” 
10:46 am
The username/password key’s major disadvantage is that it open all the doors to the house. The OAuth key only opens a couple doors; the scope of the credentials is limited. That’s a benefit, to be sure, but in Twitter’s case, a malicious application that registered for OAuth with both read and write privileges can do most evil things a user might be worried about.
— Alex Payne 
10:47 am
MemcacheDB. A server that speaks the memcache protocol but uses Berkeley DB for reliable persistent storage. Speedy: 20,000 writes/second and 60,000+ reads/second. Includes a full replication mechanism (with custom memcache protocol commands) based on Berkeley DB’s. 
12:37 pm
Travel time to major cities: A global map of Accessibility (via) Visualisation developed by the European Commission and the World Bank. 1:24 pm
