By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: October 24, 2005
Monday, 24 October 2005
- Jesus ★
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iBelieve is a replacement cap and lanyard to convert the iPod Shuffle into a cross.
- The Google Web Accelerator Is Back With a Vengeance ★
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David Heinemeier Hansson on an apparently new version of Google’s Web Accelerator, which not only still wreaks havoc with web applications by pre-fetching web pages, but it now does so without sending an identifiable HTTP header. Update: It was a bug, now fixed.
- The Deck ★
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Five ad spots that run across three of my favorite web sites: A List Apart, Coudal Partners, and 37signals. Just like the ads here on Daring Fireball, only one ad runs per page — which benefits both the reader and the advertiser. Of course, I shamelessly stole the idea off Coudal in the first place.
- iTunes Australia ★
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Daniel Bogan:
Songs are $1.69 AUD (~$1.27 USD), and albums are $16.99 AUD (~$12.76 USD).
- Something Rotten in AdSense ★
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Joel Spolsky on the rising tide of AdSense fraud:
The minute companies start cutting checks to “affiliates” at the end of the month that are based on nothing more than clicks, you’re bound to get the AllAdvantage phenomenon. AllAdvantage was probably one of the most spectacularly stupid business ideas to come out of the first Dot Com bubble: a company that paid you to look at ads. That’s because they fell victim to one of the better business ideas from the first Dot Com bubble: hiring armies of low-paid workers to look at AllAdvantage ads.
- iLounge Reviews Universal Dock and Apple Remote ★
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Jeremy Horwitz rates them as B+ and B, respectively.
- Rich Siegel: Glorified Typist ★
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From the “It’s About Time” department: Bare Bones Software chieftain Rich Siegel now has a weblog.