Simon Willison’s Weblog

hasAccount. Stuart proposes a light-weight API for letting any site know if a user has an account (and is signed in) on another service. I wouldn’t want to deploy this without being confident that my CSRF protection was in order.

# 9:10 am / accounts, api, crossdomain, csrf, json, stuart-langridge

Kosmos Distributed File System (via) New open source distributed filesystem similar to Google’s GFS.

# 9:12 am / gfs, goggle, kfs, open-source, richskrenta

OLPC Peru/Arahuay. A fascinating case study of the introduction of the XO to a school in Peru. It’s really exciting to see the project starting to make an impact.

# 11:56 pm / olpc, peru, xo