By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: March 22, 2006
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
- Backing Up Flickr Photos With Amazon S3 ★
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25 lines of Python code to backup your Flickr account to Amazon’s new pay-per-GB S3 online storage system. Matt Croydon writes:
After uploading 160 or so photos to Amazon, I owe them about a penny.
(Via Andy Baio.)
- Dell to Buy Alienware ★
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Eric Bangeman:
The rumors are true: a week after denying rumors that a deal was in the works, Dell purchased the privately held Alienware for an undisclosed amount.
- The Morning News Joins The Deck ★
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I’ve enjoyed TMN’s design and writing for years.
- Apple Comes Out Against French Copyright Law ★
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Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris says the law would increase piracy, presumably because the law would require it to be possible loss-lessly translate DRM-protected media into other (non-DRM protected) formats.
I still haven’t found a good technical explanation of just what this law would mandate, and I’m starting to get the feeling that it’s because it doesn’t really mandate anything specific, but rather just broad untenable precepts that aren’t feasible without abandoning DRM completely.
- Steve Jobs Sells Nearly Half His Apple Stock? ★
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I’m no expert on how to read SEC filings, but this one from Steve Jobs looks to me like he’s declaring his intention to sell 4,573,553 of his 10,000,004 shares of Apple. At $64.66 a share, that’s more than $295 million. (Via Dean Allen.)
Update: This poster on Yahoo’s finance forum argues that this isn’t a stock sale, per se, but rather that Jobs is surrendering these shares back to Apple for tax purposes. Second Update: More or less, Jobs just had 10 million shares vest, and he sold just enough of them to the pay the taxes on all of them. If he hadn’t sold any, he’d have had to pay about $300 million in taxes out of his pocket. (Thanks to Matt Deatherage’s succinct explanation on the MDJ-Talk list.)