By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 20, 2005
Tuesday, 20 December 2005
- Sketchfighter Sneak Peek ★
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Upcoming game from Ambrosia; super-clever concept.
- The Tagging Hall of Shame: Amazon ★
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Why Amazon’s “tagging” feature isn’t useful — and therefore, because it’s just useless visual clutter, is in fact detrimental to the overall user experience.
- 2005 Google Zeitgeist ★
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Best graphic design I’ve ever seen from Google. Also worth noting: iPod dominates the list of top Froogle searches of the year, holding spots 1, 4, 8, and 9 (and 3 is “mp3 player”).
- WordPress on Yahoo ★
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Yahoo small business hosting is now offering WordPress alongside Movable Type.
- The Info-Mac Network Retires ★
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I think Info-Mac could have disappeared a few years ago and few would have noticed, but it’s hard to overstate how important it was to the Mac software community in the pre-Web ’90s. It was the way to learn about new and updated software. (Via Michael Tsai.)
- Recap of Friday’s TypePad Outage ★
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Six Apart’s Michael Sippey on the weekend outage at TypePad.