By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: October 11, 2005
Tuesday, 11 October 2005
- Paul Thurrott Falls for ‘Single-Play DVDs’ Hoax ★
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Jackass.
- Record-Breaking Quarterly Results From Apple ★
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Apple:
Apple shipped 1,236,000 Macintosh units and 6,451,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 48 percent growth in Macs and 220 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.
For fiscal 2005, the Company generated revenue of $13.93 billion and a net profit of $1.335 billion, reflecting annual growth of 68 percent and 384 percent, respectively, and representing the highest annual revenue and net profit in the Company’s history.
“We’re thrilled to have concluded the best year in Apple’s history, with 68 percent year-over-year revenue growth and 384 percent net profit growth,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “This is the direct result of our focus on innovation and the immense talent and creativity at Apple. We could not be more excited about the new products we’re working on for 2006.”
So much for concerns (including mine) that pre-announcing the switch to Intel was going to cause Mac sales to dip in the interim.
- Mark Pilgrim’s Continuing Greasemonkeying ★
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Mark Pilgrim is working on microformat parsing for Firefox:
Imagine having your own private database of every person you’ve ever stumbled across online, and being able to download their vCards into your address book. And every event, which you can download into iCal/Sunbird/Outlook. Plus a list of all the Creative Commons-licensed content you’ve ever read, which you can repurpose — legally, according to the terms of the license.
Now imagine searching such a database. And subscribing to your search results as a syndicated feed.
It’s coming. Within weeks, not years. All the data is out there; people are publishing this stuff anyway. If they publish it just 1% better (with appropriate microformatting), I can get 1000% more out of it.