By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 12, 2006
Thursday, 12 January 2006
- Hanzoweb ★
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Like Delicious, but instead of bookmarking web pages, it creates archives of them in their current state. (I’m not going to play along with their goofy punctuation game, however.) (Via Ben Hammersley.)
- Kottke on Digg and Slashdot Traffic and Influence ★
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Terrific analysis from Kottke on the effects of getting the same post linked from the front pages of both Digg and Slashdot. What’s weird to me is that either site picked up on that particular post of his, which is a couple of months old. Gist is: don’t count Slashdot out.
- Bill Bumgarner on Google Earth for Mac ★
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Overall, it looks and feels like an X11 application. That, combined with a overly busy user interface that does not focus on the core display (which is quite fantastic in and of itself) leads to an application that is just terribly unpleasant to use.
Bumgarner is right: it’s not just that the UI widgets look clunky — it’s just not a particularly well-designed app, particularly its use of screen space.
- Google-CBS Video Store Apparently Sucks ★
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Ashlee Vance:
If, like us, you expected the new and improved Google Video service to rival something like Apple’s iTunes store, then do yourself a favor and don’t visit the Google shop for a few months. Google has done nothing to celebrate its unique access to shows such as CSI, Survivor and Star Trek. Instead, the company has buried CBS’s shows beneath a dismal interface wrapped in a shambles of a delivery mechanism.
- Griffin Technology: TuneCenter ★
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Clever and interesting, and sounds like a great deal for just $100, but my gut feeling is that Apple is going to obviate this later this year.
- Nikon Plans to Stop Making Most Cameras That Use Film ★
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Martin Fackler, reporting for The New York Times:
A company spokesman said Nikon made the decision because sales of film cameras have plunged. In the most recent fiscal year ended March 2005, Nikon said that film camera bodies accounted for 3 percent of the 180 billion yen ($1.5 billion) in sales at the company’s camera and imaging division. That is down from 16 percent the previous year.