Simon Willison’s Weblog

EveryBlock source code released. EveryBlock’s Knight Foundation grant required them to release the source code after two years, under the GPL. Lots of neat Django / PostgreSQL / GIS tricks to be found within. 8:01 pm

Address Extractor. Running on App Engine, an address extractor web service using code from the EveryBlock open source release. 8:03 pm

PubSub-over-Webhooks with RabbitHub. RabbitMQ, the Erlang-powered AMQP message queue, is growing an HTTP interface based on webhooks and PubSubHubBub. 8:22 pm