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 / csrf, stuart-langridge, crossdomain, json, api, accounts

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

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

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, xo, peru