Linked List: January 6, 2005

Thursday, 6 January 2005

iTMS Finally Opens in Ireland 

Now U2 can buy their own songs.

Fear and Conan in Las Vegas 

Conan O’Brien, Bill Gates’s celebrity co-host at the aforementioned CES keynote, on his night out in Vegas with Gates: “I got so drunk that I woke up with a hooker, Bill got so drunk he woke up with an Apple computer.”

Bill Gates Gets Blue Screen of Death During CES Keynote 

Sweet, sweet schadenfreude, how we love thee.

Dave Winer on the Six Apart-LiveJournal Acquisition 

Dave Winer:

In all the speculation about the deal betw Six Apart and LiveJournal I haven’t seen what surely is the motivator. Six Apart plans to go public. The market will value SA based on its ability to generate profits, and it will likely do so in proportion to the number of users, the theory being that they can sell things to the users, so the more users, the more they can sell. The more users the more value. LJ has a lot of users. So the founders of LJ get SA stock, and the shareholders of SA get more users, and value of the combined companies goes up and the day of the IPO gets closer.

OmniOutliner 3.0 

Also out of beta, in regular ($40) and Pro ($70) varieties.

OmniWeb 5.1 

My favorite browser; latest version now out of beta.

Six Apart and LiveJournal, Sitting in a Tree 

LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick confirms the rumor. Wow.

Also: Six Apart’s FAQ, and Mena Trott’s weblog entry on the acquisition.

Think Secret iPod Flash Rumors 

The very day after Apple filed suit against them, Think Secret reports on new flash-based iPod rumors. That’s fucking balls. (They’re now claiming storage capacity will start at 1 GB, which strikes me as credible. They also claim the display will be “the same width as the iPod mini’s but two lines shorter”, meaning only three lines of text. No conjecture at all, however, as to what they’ll actually look like or how small they’ll be.)