By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Timothy Appnel on whether there’s a market for commercial Movable Type plug-ins. His answer, more or less, is “no”. I wonder if the problem is that Movable Type is losing so much momentum to WordPress?
The title is apparently Apple PR-speak for “Minimizing Mac Pro Fan Noise”, and the gist of their advice is that you should buy Apple’s RAM because “Apple FB DIMMs have an accurate, integral thermal sensor”.
Carson Systems’s new advertising service for online newsletters. (Via 37signals.)
Ends up Tucows was the purchaser of Kiko in last month’s eBay auction:
While there are a lot of little reasons, I’ll cover a few of them in a moment, there is really one big reason why we bought Kiko. We needed the functionality, quite desperately, inside of our email platform and it was going to take us a long time to get it. Especially at the level of sophistication Kiko has.
Andy Baio on the developer commentary feature in Half-Life 2: Episode One, complete with video clips.
Confirms the rumors from last week. “Showtime” certainly sounds like something related to movies.
Numbers 1-4 seem particularly apt this week. (Via.)
Good comparison of their relative strengths and weaknesses from James Duncan Davidson.