Simon Willison’s Weblog

OpenStreetMap Baghdad. OSM has mapped the streets by tracing from aerial imagery, but needs help with the names of the streets.

# 7:48 am / baghdad, iraq, openstreetmap

Wired News: Web Startups Reboot ’London 2.0’. Crikey... the toungue-in-cheek name for our Rails/Django meetups has inspired a Wired article!

# 7:50 am / london2, wired

Browser Wars. Doug Crockford is hosting a panel discussion with Chris Wilson from IE, Mike Shaver from Mozilla and Håkon Wium Lie from Opera on February 28th in Sunnyvale.

# 7:53 am / chris-wilson, douglas-crockford, hakonwiumlee, mike-shaver

A Gathering Of Geeks. The Oxford Mail’s coverage of Nat’s Oxford Geek Night event.

# 9:35 am / local-news, natalie-downe, oxford-geek-nights, oxfordmail

Introducing Windows CardSpace. I incorrectly stated in my talk yesterday that CardSpace was a feature of Vista; it’s actually available for XP as well as part of the .NET 3.0 framework.

# 11:47 am / cardspace, correction, future-of-web-apps, microsoft

prooveme.com. An OpenID provider that uses SSL client certificates (which you install in your browser) for authentication.

# 12:01 pm / certificates, openid, prooveme, ssl

John Resig: Thoughts on OpenAjax. I hadn’t looked in to OpenAjax—from John’s analysis it seems like they need to make it easier for open-source projects to participate and do a bunch of work to modernise their core library.

# 10:20 pm / ajax, javascript, john-resig, jquery, openajax