By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 20, 2006
Monday, 20 March 2006
- Southwest Airlines: Ding for Mac ★
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Southwest has released a Mac version of Ding, their previously Windows-only app for delivering discount airfare notifications to your desktop. (Via Philip Michaels’s coverage at Macworld.)
Update: It’s a bizarre little app. It doesn’t even have an Edit menu, so, for example, you can’t use Cut, Copy, Paste or Undo while editing the text fields.
- Bizarre Spat Between Engadget and DAPreview ★
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Engadgets links to DAPreview story on some new piece of junk gadget, then soon afterwards changes the link and re-crops the photo to remove any credit to DAPreview as the original source for the info and picture. Engadget has since restored the original crop of the photo and added a rather perplexing apology from Engadget managing editor Ryan Block.
- Microsoft Confirms It Originated iPod Box Parody Video ★
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Ends up that “What If Microsoft Designed the iPod Packaging?” video from last month was created by a marketing team at Microsoft. Robert Scoble confirmed this in a comment on his weblog at the end of February, but it’s suddenly news again, and judging from my email, most Daring Fireball readers weren’t yet aware of this.