By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: September 19, 2006
Tuesday, 19 September 2006
- Steven Levy: Make Room on the Couch for Steve ★
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Steven Levy’s Newsweek article on iTV — the article I couldn’t find a link to earlier. (I still say Newsweek’s web site is a turd.) Levy writes:
Is it possible that when iTV ships next year, you may also be able to choose a menu item called Google Video, and then zip through the best of the thousands of user-submitted videos on the search giant’s service? Google’s consumer product chief, Marissa Mayer, tells me that indeed, the two companies are engaged in talks.
- Lenovo: Design Matters Weblog ★
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Nifty new weblog from Lenovo’s ThinkPad team. Interesting posts include this one on their iconic red “TrackPoint” caps, and this one on their spill-resistant keyboards.
(Via Shawn Medero
- Thomas Hawk: Why Apple’s iTV Will Fail, With or Without Google ★
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Thomas Hawk:
Note to the Appleheads: While Steve Jobs may in fact be a marketing a genius there comes a point when Eskimos will no longer buy ice. $10-$15 for a poor picture quality movie is a bad deal. Yes, idiots overpay for things. Yes, there are a lot of idiots out there and yes Steve Jobs may be able to use the Obi Wan Kenobi trick voice with some, but I predict this thing will flop hard. You read it here first.
Prediction noted.
Freeberg’s anti-iTV prediction seems solely predicated on the assumption that it isn’t going to support HD. I don’t believe Apple has said anything about HD one way or the other, though. The downloadable movies from the iTunes Store aren’t HD-quality, but the iTV does have an HDMI output port. Why would Apple include an HDMI port if they weren’t going to support HD in some way?
Update: Ends up Thomas Hawk wrote this article, not Davis Freeberg; SeekingAlpha misattributed it. You can still see the misattributed byline on the version at Yahoo Finance.
- HP and Apple’s Toxic Laptops Exposed ★
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Greenpeace:
An independant Danish laboratory tested for the presence of several toxic chemicals, including brominated flame retardants (BFRs), polyvinyl chloride plastic (PVC), and even lead, in brand new laptops from five of the world’s leading manufacturers (Acer, Apple, Dell, HP, Sony). HP and Apple laptops contained the highest levels of contamination.
(Via Jesper via AIM.)
- BBC News: Google and Apple ‘In Video Talks’ ★
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BBC News
US magazine Newsweek reports that Google is talking to Apple about supplying video clips for the player. […]
Google’s consumer product chief, Marissa Mayer, told Newsweek that the two companies are “engaged in talks”.
I can’t find a link to the story at Newsweek’s crummy web site, though.
- Disney Sells 125,000 Movie Downloads Through iTunes in First Week ★
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Expects $50 million in revenue in the first year.
- SubEthaEdit 2.5.1 ★
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Adds a page guide and better text encoding support.
- Getting Markdown and SmartyPants Working With EditPad Pro ★
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Joel Spolsky is apparently a Markdown and SmartyPants convert. Seems like a minor pain in the ass to get them working with EditPad Pro, though; with BBEdit and TextWrangler, you just copy the .pl files to ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Unix Support/Unix Filters/ and that’s it. (It certainly helps that Mac OS X ships with Perl; Windows XP does not.)
- Moo: Flickr MiniCards ★
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Get up to 100 of your Flickr photos printed on business cards for $20; Flickr Pro users get 10 free. Great idea. Update: I just ordered my free 10-pack, and the UI is just terrific. What a great web app.
- The HP Diet Plan: Buy Our Cameras ★
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Jason Fried on the HP photo-slimming feature.
- HP Cameras With Built-in ‘Slimming’ Feature ★
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This is just sick. HP’s digital cameras offer a built-in “slimming” feature that squishes the image to make women look slimmer. Their examples show two perfectly healthy-looking women in no need of “slimming” — to my eyes they both look better in the original untouched photos. Why not use HP’s CEO Mark Hurd as a model?
(Via Dan Benjamin.)
- RooSwitch Lite 1.0 ★
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Freeware little brother to RooSwitch, Brian Cooke’s nifty software configuration switcher.
- Napster Goes Up for Sale ★
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This is funny. Creative is cited as a potential buyer for Napster, because it’s “finding its role as an also-ran vendor of digital music and media players under attack by SanDisk”. I.e. they’re losing their fight to remain an “also-ran”.
- Upcoming.org Looking for That Special Someone ★
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Upcoming is looking for a PHP developer.