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Saturday, 20th October 2007

New on Dopplr: The Past (with Pictures). Dopplr’s trip pages automatically display your Flickr/Facebook photos that were taken during the duration of the trip—simple and smart integration of third party sites.

# 11:25 am / apis, dopplr, facebook, flickr, integration

WebKit Does HTML5 Client-side Database Storage. SQLite strikes again. The WebKit team have included a neat update to their Web Inspector that lets you browse and modify your client-side databases.

# 12:03 pm / apple, html5, offline, safari, sqlite, webinspector, webkit, whatwg

OPSI asks users to contribute to new web channel. The Office of Public Sector Information now has an online forum for people interested in reusing UK government information for commercial benefit, based on a recommendation in the “Power of Information” report by Tom Steinberg and Ed Mayo.

# 1:18 pm / edmayo, government, opsi, powerofinformation, tom-steinberg, uk

Django may be built for the Web, but CouchDB is built of the Web. I've never seen software that so completely embraces the philosophies behind HTTP. CouchDB makes Django look old-school in the same way that Django makes ASP look outdated.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

# 1:46 pm / asp, couchdb, django, http, jacob-kaplan-moss, python