Simon Willison’s Weblog

Dopplr presents the Personal Annual Report 2008: freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama... So classy it hurts. I’d love to know what library they used to generate the PDF.

# 16th January 2009, 12:17 pm / pdf, dopplr, barack-obama

Obama ’08 for iPhone (via) Slick app, impressive for a three week turnaround. I’m guessing it uses the phone number area codes in your address book to arrange your friends by state for the “call your friends” feature, which is an ingeniously simple hack.

# 2nd October 2008, 6:13 pm / politics, iphone, barack-obama, ravenzachary

A Look at the Presidential Candidates. The Big Picture (the Boston Globe’s fantastic photojournalism blog) presents a fascinating collection of historical photos of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.

# 4th July 2008, 9:09 pm / barack-obama, john-mccain, politics, photography, thebigpicture, photos