By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: September 12, 2005
Monday, 12 September 2005
- Yahoo Turns Flickr Sign-Up Process Into Crap ★
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David Heinemeier Hansson on the sign-up process for Flickr, before and after the Yahoo acquisition.
- ‘Apple: The Next Generation’ Roundtable, With Yours Truly ★
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SiliconValley.com is hosting a roundtable discussion this week about Apple’s future. I’m one of the panelists; others include Brent Simmons, Tim Bray, and Andy Hertzfeld. It’s a web-based forum; we’ll be posting there throughout the week.
- Time Magazine on the Nano ★
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By Lev Grossman:
Jobs was proposing to fix something that decidedly was not broken. “Not very many companies are bold enough to shoot their best-selling product at the peak of its popularity,” Gartner analyst Van Baker says. “That’s what Apple just did.” And it did that while staring right down the barrels of the holiday retail season.
- Quark Reloaded ★
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Speak Up on the new Quark logo. I agree: It may not be original, but it’s not a rip-off.
- eBay to Buy Skype for $2.6 Billion ★
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Skype is good, but $2.6 billion? That’s a lot of money.
- FatBits: John Siracusa’s Journal ★
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John Siracusa is, finally, writing a weblog for Ars Technica.
So why is FatBits the title of my blog? Aside from the obvious nostalgia trip and old school Mac cred, I think it’s good fit for my personality, and my writing style here at Ars. I spent a lot of time in FatBits as a kid. I am (and was, even at ten years old) the kind of person who’s not satisfied until every single pixel is just so.
- Terry Teague, Dead at 50 ★
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Long-time Apple employee Terry Teague died at home. I knew him as the author of the Mac port of Tidy, including the old BBTidy plug-in for BBEdit.
- What Does It Take to Destroy a Nano? ★
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Jacqui Cheng and Clint Ecker abuse an iPod Nano for their Ars Technica review. Seems pretty damn sturdy.