By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: June 4, 2007
Monday, 4 June 2007
- Speak Up: ‘London, How do I Hate Thee? Let me Count the Ways, 1, 2… 2012’ ★
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London’s new logo for the 2012 Olympics is one of the worst marks I’ve ever seen. It’s just plain ugly.
- Palm to Add Former Apple CFO, iPod Head to Board ★
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Palm has added Fred Anderson and Jon Rubinstein to its board of directors. Sprinkle a little retired Apple dust on the company — that’ll fix Palm’s ills, for sure. (Via Fake Steve.)
- VoodooPad 3.2 ★
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Minor feature update for Flying Meat’s wiki-ish notes app.
- iPhone Commercial Hints at Mystery App ★
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Macenstein notes that while there are 11 standard apps in the iPhone launcher, in some of the close-ups there are 12. But because they’re close-ups, you can’t see what the extra app is. (My completely uninformed guess is iChat. Update: Where by “iChat”, I just mean “instant messaging”, not audio or video chat.)
- Pacific Catch ★
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Restaurant featured in the third of yesterday’s new iPhone commercials. Wonder what business is like today?
- Losing Money, Microsoft Still Has No Date for the Zune in Europe ★
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Steve Ballmer tells German news site that because they’re losing money on the Zune, Microsoft has no plans to sell them in Europe. The article is in German; here’s a translation to English via Google. (Thanks to reader Markus Hänchen.)
- ‘Cocks’ Banned, ‘Tits’ Allowed ★
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The New Zealand Herald:
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has banned the word for male birds from its website, drawing accusations of political correctness gone mad.
I thought this sort of goofy censorship only happened here in the U.S.
- iPhone Doubter: Lance Davis ★
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Noted for future gloating: Lance Davis is an iPhone doubter.
Where Apple has gone wrong is in setting expectations. The phone will be late. All first smartphones are.
Judging by the new commercials, this is already wrong.
Remember, the mobile industry is one where some of the biggest companies in the world have tried and failed: Siemens, Philips, Fujitsu. None of them have creditable market shares. Even IBM put a toe in the water in the late nineties and then stayed away.
And everyone knows how great IBM is at creating mass-market consumer electronics.
- SWTSG 0.9.9 ★
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Updated version of Darel Rex Finley’s freeware utility for generating Star Wars-style scrolling credits. New features include support for additional characters and glyphs.
- New York Times” ‘Fever Builds for iPhone (Anxiety Too)’ ★
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John Markoff, reporting in The New York Times:
A person briefed on Apple’s plans said that at its software developer conference this month, Apple intends to announce that it will make it possible for developers of small programs written for the Macintosh to easily convert them to run on the iPhone.
Translation: Dashboard widgets, Cocoa, or both.