Simon Willison’s Weblog

Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site. The New York Times finally acknowledges that you can’t be the “paper of record” if no one can link to you.

# 8:40 am / journalism, news, new-york-times

Satisfaction signup page. Check out the box on the right: it lets you use hCard to instantly import your public profile data (including a user icon) from Flickr, Twitter, Upcoming and more.

# 11:25 am / hcard, microformats, portablesocialnetworks, satisfaction, signup

Webstock 2008—New Zealand’s web conference. I’m speaking next year in New Zealand! Very excited, plan to spend most of February there to make the most of the flights.

# 12:02 pm / newzealand, speaking, travel, webstock, webstock2008

OpenID event at the British Library. On the 8th of November. Sadly I’ll be in Berlin for the Web 2.0 Expo but it looks like a great lineup. Free to attend but limited to 50 people so book soon.

# 1:22 pm / berlin, britishlibrary, events, openid, web2expo

ActsAsUndoable. Lawrence Carvalho shows how robust undo functionality can be added to a JavaScript application through careful application of the Memento design pattern.

# 3:51 pm / actsasundoable, design-patterns, javascript, lawrence-carvalho, memento, undo, yui