Simon Willison’s Weblog

Opera 9.5 alpha, Kestrel, released. “With history search, Opera creates a full-text index of each and every page you visit, and when you go to the address bar, you can simply start entering words you know have been on pages you’ve visited before, and items matching your search show up.” I just tried this; it’s magic. I’m switching back to Opera from Camino.

# 8:34 pm / opera, camino, browsers, history, search, kestrel, full-text-search

Jottit. Aaron Swartz’s latest venture: a complete rethink of the Infogami concept. Well worth checking out for the extremely thoughtful way it introduces features, and the way account creation with a password remains optional until you want to add access control.

# 9:43 pm / aaron-swartz, infogami, jottit, wiki, bitbots, usability, userflow, authentication