Linked List: December 3, 2004

Friday, 3 December 2004

Details on Security Update 2004-12-02 ★: Lots of details on the changes, at Apple’s Security Update page.
4 GB Storage Is ‘Sweet Spot’ for Music Players ★: BBC story from April, on a Jupiter Research report that concluded 1,000 song capacity is the sweet spot for music players. I think Apple has understood this from the get-go — the original first-generation iPod marketing emphasized “1,000 songs in your pocket” much more heavily than the fact that it was “5 GB”.
A Del.icio.us Interview ★: Rands interviews Del.icio.us developer Joshua Schachter. (Interesting tidbit: Del.icio.us is written in Perl.)
IBM Said to Put Its PC Business on the Market ★: Andrew Ross Sorkin and Steve Lohr, reporting for the NY Times:

International Business Machines, whose first IBM PC in 1981 moved personal computing out of the hobby shop and into the corporate and consumer mainstream, has put the business up for sale, people close to the negotiations said yesterday.
More Details on iTMS Canada ★: From Jim Dalrymple at MacCentral. $.99 CDN is roughly $.85 US, so Canadians are getting a nice discount on downloads.
Netflix Launches ‘Friends List’ Feature ★: Make recommendations and share movie reviews with your friends. Clever. This sort of social/community feature might keep NetFlix thriving in the face of other “get DVD rentals mailed to your house” competitors. (Via Nat Irons, via email.)