Simon Willison’s Weblog

Find Your Friends. Flickr have added a characteristically classy friend import feature, pulling from Gmail, Yahoo! and Hotmail address books without any unhygienic password sharing. It’s a crying shame that the Yahoo! contacts API they are using isn’t available outside the company.

# 1:01 am / flickr, portablesocialnetworks, passwordantipattern, gmail, yahoo, hotmail

Classy Query. Beautifully implemented parody of class-based JavaScript and verbose namespacing as a jQuery extension, from John Resig. The source code has some neat tricks in it, in particular the buildClass() function.

# 9:48 am / john-resig, namespacing, jquery, javascript, parody, funny, aprilfools

Welcome to Game Neverending. It really is back! Hot tip: start by taking the survey, then sell the five pieces of blue paper at the bank with the pig on the roof.

# 9:15 pm / gne, flickr, gameneverending, fun