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Linked List: September 28, 2005

Wednesday, 28 September 2005

Rollyo 

Neato new web app (in “beta”, of course) built on top of the Yahoo Search API. You create searchrolls, which are lists of up to 25 domain names, and then your search results are constrained to those domains. I created one called “Mac Nerdery” if you want to try it out.

Rollyo’s overall UI is quite good, including a distinctive look and feel, a very clear and well-organized layout, and a healthy sprinkling of Ajax. The sign-up process for creating a new account is painless.

Complements aside, I must say it’s unclear to me whether Rollyo provides any actual advantage over a regular Internet-wide search.

See also: Rael Dornfest’s write-up at O’Reilly Radar.

Avoiding Copland 2010 

John Siracusa:

So, here it is. Here’s what I think will quickly become Mac OS X’s most glaring technical limitation, and what could lead to another Copland-style disaster if Apple isn’t careful. Here’s what Mac OS X is missing today that will be very difficult to add later without causing big problems for existing software and developers:

A memory-managed language and API

Search and Rescue 

Tim O’Reilly has an op-ed in today’s New York Times regarding the Authors Guild suit against the Google Library Project. Perfect summary of why the Authors Guild, and any authors who supports their suit, are wrong.

Update: I’ve changed the link to point to O’Reilly’s hosted version of essay, which contains a bit of extra commentary and an extra paragraph that was cut because of space constraints. Sort of like a director’s cut for op-eds.

Apple.com Home Page Retrospective 

Collection of screenshots of Apple’s front page over the years. I wish so many of them weren’t cropped, though. (Via Infinite Loop.)