By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: November 28, 2006
Tuesday, 28 November 2006
- Russia Agrees to U.S. Request to Shut Down AllOfMP3.com ★
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I’m with Andy Baio — I can’t believe they lasted as long as they did.
- Security Update 2006-007 ★
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Includes a fix for the AirPort exploit released earlier this month, with credit to “H D Moore of Metasploit”. Note to George Ou: See how that works? Exploit is released, with code. Apple fixes, and gives credit.
There are also updates for ATS, Perl, PHP, and more.
- PFDT: Rip-Off of Shaun Inman’s haveamint.com ★
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They have the gall to release their ripped-off design with a Creative Commons attribution-required, no-derivative-works license. (Via Inman.)
- Nick Denton on TechCrunch’s Advertising Revenue ★
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Have I mentioned how much I’m enjoying Denton’s turn at the helm of Valleywag?
One factor Denton either missed or neglected to mention is that TechCrunch’s job board is doing about $20K a month in revenue (assuming all the listings for November are fully paid).
- Script Debugger 4.0.5 ★
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Bug fix update to Late Night Software’s amazing AppleScript editor and debugger.
- Dave Winer: ‘Web 2.0 Is Nothing More Than an Aftermarket for Google’ ★
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This observation from Dave Winer rings true to me:
I almost wrote a piece yesterday saying that since the Web 2.0 companies aren’t going public, they’re safe from busting in a visible, dramatic way. I almost said it will be hard to tell when the bust comes, it’ll be softer and slower, you won’t hear a crash or even a pop. But I was wrong, and today we got the first rumblings of the shock that will signal the end of the bubble.
Google stock will crash. That’s how we’ll know.
- Audio Hijack Pro 2.7.1 and Fission 1.1.1 ★
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Rogue Amoeba updates their audio apps to generate AAC files that work on the new iPod Shuffle.
- CIO Compares Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac OS X ★
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John Halamka, CIO of the Harvard Medical School and previously a dedicated Windows user, spent a month each with new notebooks running Red Hat Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows XP, and concluded he liked Mac OS X best. Money quote:
“I used to think that the Macintosh was something used by free spirits just to be different,” he says. “Now I realize the Mac has such superior human factor engineering that it’s used by people because they can be more productive. If Apple comes up with a 2- or 2.5-pound 12-inch-screen laptop that runs cool, has better integration with Exchange, and if Vista turns out to be the beast it could be, then I probably will move to a Mac.”
I used to think Windows was something preferred by CIO-type suits because they were ignorant jackasses. No, wait, I still think that.
(Via FSJ.)
- Crazy Apple Rumors: ‘Apple Steals MacZOT! Concept’ ★
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CARS:
An angry MacZOT! founder Brian Ball lashed out at Apple in a tirade excessively laden with both expletives and gratuitous exclamation marks.
“DamnIT!” Ball shouted. “This is BullSHIT!
“I invented the art of not making any money and Apple knows it.”
- We’ve Secretly Replaced the Shitty Zune You Thought You Were Buying With an Even Shittier One ★
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100 “lucky” Zune buyers are getting limited edition pink Zunes which Microsoft secretly seeded into the retail market.
- DEVONthink Professional Office Public Beta ★
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It used to be DEVONthink. Then it was DEVONthink Professional. Now it’s DEVONthink Professional Office. Rather than incrementing the version number, they seem to just add extra words to the product name. My guess is next year it’ll be DEVONthink Professional Office Extreme.
- Are Green Magazine Covers ‘Death on Newsstands’? ★
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It’s a widely-held belief in the magazine industry that green covers sell poorly at the newsstand. Slate’s Julia Turner investigated, and found that no one has any evidence to back this up. (The only current green cover she could find on newsstands was High Times.)
(Via Kevin Drum.)
- New ‘Get a Mac’ Ads ★
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Not bad, but none strike me as especially funny, either.