By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: July 26, 2006
Wednesday, 26 July 2006
- Unofficial Digg API ★
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Reverse-engineered from the Flash files at Digg Labs (which I think they should have called “Digg Labbs”). (Via Andy Baio, who got it from Digg.)
- Michael Dell Comments Regarding Apple ★
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Michael Dell, addressing Dell’s annual shareholders meeting, regarding Apple’s music business:
“We’ve been working with MTV, which has a new service called Urge. That’s an exciting space that Apple has done well in, but I would be surprised if they are able to maintain the share they have today over the next ten or 20 years.”
What a great strategy: “Give us a decade or two and we’ll catch up to them.”
- Digg Reddit ★
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Paul Graham:
Twice now, stories that linked to reddit have gone out in Digg’s rss feed as frontpage stories, only to disappear from the frontpage.
This implies one of two things: either (a) Digg’s staff is manually removing stories, or (b) they’re such bumblers technically that the software handling the rss feed for frontpage stories is upstream of the software deciding what stories make it onto the frontpage, and thus has to guess what the latter will do.
- The Lester Bangs of Video Games ★
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Chuck Klosterman essay in Esquire on the dearth of serious video game criticism. Then see also this interview with Klosterman at GameSpot, where he further explains his point:
In other words there’s no one writing about video games who is of interest to people who aren’t actively playing them. I mean you look at film in the 1970s — there were people writing about film who were being read by people who had no intention of seeing those movies.
- Andy Baio: Metafilter Sources 2006 ★
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Wikipedia goes from #66 to #2, jumping ahead of the BBC, the New York Times, and Amazon.
- ‘Learn Objective-C on the Macintosh’ by Mark Dalrymple and Scott Knaster ★
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New Mac programming book, available both on paper and as a PDF, by two of the Mac’s best programming authors.
- Apple Quietly Extends Range of Serial Numbers for eMac Repair Program ★
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They added a new range of serial numbers on July 12 for the “eMac Repair Extension Program for Video and Power Issues” program.
- NewsFire 1.4 ★
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Free update adds an integrated video player for video podcasts.
- OpenDarwin Shutting Down ★
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Seems very whiny to me. They’re hosting several very successful projects, including the WebKit Open Source Project and DarwinPorts. I’d say OpenDarwin.org has been successful — just not in the way they’d imagined at the outset.
- 2lmc on the ‘Free Zune Replacements for Your ITMS’ Songs Rumor ★
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Interesting speculation from Blech (by way of a comment on Daniel Jalkut’s weblog) that, if it’s true that Microsoft plans to offer “free” Zune-compatible replacements for any songs you’ve purchased through ITMS, that they’ll be tied to participation in a subscription service, and thus won’t actually cost Microsoft anything.