By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: October 27, 2005
Thursday, 27 October 2005
- Splasm Software: Podner ★
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$10 app converts video files into iPod-compatible MPEG-4 or H.264 formats.
- Web 2.01: It’s a Mistake to Rule Out the Desktop ★
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Nick Bradbury on the role of desktop apps in the Web 2.0 era. (Via Brent Simmons.)
- Slowly Going Insane While Waiting for a Fix ★
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Dealing with bugs in the OS are one of the hardest parts of the job for third-party developers. Dave Nanian reports on a bug in Tiger that has caused problems for users of SuperDuper (Shirt Pocket Software’s excellent drive-duplicating/backup software), and how they worked around it for the upcoming SuperDuper 2.0.
- ‘Are We Alone? The Stanley Kubrick Extraterrestrial Intelligence Interviews’ ★
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Upcoming book compiled by long-time Kubrick assistant Tony Frewin, consisting of a series of interviews with leading scientists compiled for an abandoned prologue to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Note that a certain butt-head astronomer refused to participate without a cut of the film’s profits. (Via Coudal, of course.)
- TypePad Performance Problems ★
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They outgrew their datacenter, which has led to a series of recent service problems. I suppose I might feel a little differently if I used TypePad, but I do think it’s great the way they’re discussing the problems publicly. Honesty goes a long way.