Simon Willison’s Weblog

Launching Expectnation. Edd’s conference organisation software. I was a reviewer for XTech and the process was completely painless.

# 8:55 pm / conferences, edddumbill, expectnation, xtech

How Ads Really Work: Superfans and Noobs. My variant on this idea is to serve ads only on content that’s at least 6 months old. I’ve made $473.98 since January.

# 9:10 pm / ads, matt-haughey

Making use of the XRDS. One of the better explanations of XRDS: provides some background information and isn’t too long.

# 9:35 pm / andy-dale, openid, xrds

Deploying a Django app on the desktop. Silver Stripe used cx_freeze to package their commercial agile project management Django application as an easy to run Windows executable.

# 9:45 pm / desktop, django, silverstripe, windows