Simon Willison’s Weblog

Windows Live Adds Support For OpenID. I hope they include the option to log in to the provider using CardSpace, to address phishing.

# 9:34 pm / phishing, cardspace, openid, microsoft, techcrunch, live

typeface.js. Outstanding hack—renders custom fonts using VML in IE and canvas in everything else, using fonts that are defined as a set of vector paths stored using JSON.

# 11:45 pm / fonts, typefacejs, canvas, javascript, json, vml, typography

GeoCouch: Geospatial queries with CouchDB. Interesting approach: uses “external2”, a branch that allows external services to be called from CouchDB. SQLite’s SpatiaLite extension is then used as an external spacial index.

# 11:48 pm / geocouch, couchdb, erlang, sqlite, spatialite, external2

Where I’m actually living in augmented reality, Jefferson Airplane and what does this mean for photos. Rev Dan Catt takes us to the future.

# 11:53 pm / revdancatt, dan-catt, augmentedreality, rjdj, iphone