By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 19, 2005
Monday, 19 December 2005
- BBEdit Crossgrade Price Drops to $99 ★
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Bare Bones Software:
Owners of Dreamweaver, GoLive, Mailsmith and TextWrangler can purchase this award-winning HTML and text editor for the Macintosh for only US$99.
Because TextWrangler is free, this effectively means that anyone can purchase a BBEdit license for only $99.
- Tim Bray: Adium Is the Future ★
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The idea of using tabs alone makes me want to use Adium, but I really can’t get along without iChat’s ability to paste images inline. I’d switch in a heartbeat if image-pasting worked in Adium. Bray also points out that Adium is existence proof that open source software can sport a good UI. See also: Eric Meyer on Adium skinning via XHTML and CSS.
- Del.icio.us Outage ★
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This is the downside to centralized online storage.
- Macworld: Feature: 2005 Editors’ Choice Awards ★
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Good selection of great Mac products, including a slew of products I use.
- With AOL Deal, Google May Get to Go Public Again ★
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John Battelle speculates on the reasoning behind Google’s investment in AOL.
- The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age ★
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Chris Anderson:
Q: Why are people so uncomfortable with Wikipedia? And Google? And, well, that whole blog thing?
A: Because these systems operate on the alien logic of probabilistic statistics, which sacrifices perfection at the microscale for optimization at the macroscale.
- Jimmy Grewal on the End of the Mac IE Era ★
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Nice write-up by the former IE/Mac product manager, including a link to a Slashdot comment from Jorg Brown, former IE/Mac engineer. (Via Michael Tsai.)