Simon Willison’s Weblog

TypePad Motion. Launched today at FOWA, Motion is a microblogging application written in Django that uses the TypePad API for all persistent storage—which means you can deploy it as server-side code on your own site, but scaling horizontally is handled by TypePad (you just need to scale out the state-free front end). 1st October 2009, 3:51 pm

FOWA sketchnotes. Kai Chan Vong’s sketch notes from this year’s Future of Web Apps. 15th October 2008, 2:47 pm

FOWA pre-interview: Andrew Turner. I’ve started to post pre-interviews with speakers to the FOWA blog, in advance of the conference next week. First up is Andrew Turner of Mapufacture. 4th October 2008, 9:44 am

Mark Zuckerberg speaking at FOWA. The Future of Web Apps Expo is just a few weeks away, and Mark Zuckerberg is the surprise keynote. I’m chairing the developer track again this year. 24th September 2008, 1:11 pm

Future of Web Apps—Past Events. MP3s of talks at the Future of Web Apps Expo are starting to trickle on to the official site. 14th October 2007, 12:14 pm

SlideShare Groups: Future Of Web Apps. Some of the presentations from the Future of Web Apps conference. 5th October 2007, 11:58 pm

YSlow: Bug (fix) in Firebug’s Net Panel. The latest release of the YSlow page analysis plugin (announced at FOWA) also fixes a misleading bug in Firebug’s Net panel. 5th October 2007, 10:26 pm

identity-matcher. Dopplr’s social network importing code (for Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and sites supporting Microformats), implemented as a Rails ActiveRecord plugin. 4th October 2007, 2:53 pm

Google Maps, HTML version. Google’s mostly undocumented accessible version of Google Maps. Robin Christopherson demonstrated this yesterday at FOWA. 4th October 2007, 9:31 am

Announcing FOWA Expo—London October 2007. I’m chairing the development track. 29th May 2007, 10:08 pm

Vitamin Interviews: Simon Willison. Bobbie Johnson pointed a camera at me after my Future of Web Apps talk and interviewed me for eight minutes on OpenID. 23rd March 2007, 1:41 am

phpbb-openid: Your AIM screen name is your OpenID. Log in to a phpBB board with an AOL OpenID and it will try to associate your OpenID with an account that lists that AIM in the profile. This is the kind of behaviour I talked about in my FOWA talk. 6th March 2007, 7:57 am