By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 4, 2007
Thursday, 4 January 2007
- Digg Thread on the Garrett Murray/Brian Ball xPad Dispute ★
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Includes a bunch of juicy comments from Murray and Ball. Ball’s username is “ideabrian”; most of his comments have been moderated beneath the default threshold, so you might need to click them to see them.
Update: It’s worth noting that this Digg story, despite 400+ diggs in the last 8 hours, was “buried” off the front page of Digg. Burying is intended as a way for the Digg community to flag spam and other inappropriate stories, but it can also be used by a cadre of individuals to make an article they don’t like simply disappear.
- Adobe Is Going to Bring Premiere Back to the Mac ★
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Jim Dalrymple, reporting for Macworld:
Adobe will announce on Thursday that it will revive a Mac version of Premiere, the software maker’s video program aimed at professional editors. The new Mac version will only run on Intel-based Macs and will be part of a larger Adobe Production Studio suite that will include Adobe Encore DVD and Adobe Soundbooth.
Interesting. This says a lot about the Mac’s growing resurgence in the professional media-editing space. Or maybe it’s more about the surging popularity of Final Cut Pro.
- Paul Thurrott Responds ★
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Paul Thurrott responds to my “Speaking of Clowns”, but addresses none of my actual points of criticism (other than to reiterate his acclaim for Enderle’s nutty idea that “Steve Jobs” is a construct created by “Apple’s agency”). He finishes with this:
But I do know this: Both Enderle and Forrester are credible.
Enderle’s track record speaks for itself. As for Forrester, they themselves have stated that the report Enderle is talking about does not show a drop in iTunes Store music sales. They say iTunes sales are “leveling off”, meaning that growth is slowing, not that sales are dropping — a big difference.
(Most of the reports I’ve seen, though, indicate that iTunes Store growth continues to grow at about the same rate as iPod sales — the average number of iTunes Store songs sold per iPod has remained remarkably steady at about 20–25.)
- What Happened When Garrett Murray Sold xPad to MacZot’s Brian Ball ★
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Garrett Murray:
I also feel it’s important for people to know what kind of business Mr. Ball conducted with me, in case people have potential business with him in the future. Consider this fair warning that things might not go too well.
This is really quite a story. Short version: Get your money up front if you sell an app to Brian Ball.
- Amazon Leaks Placeholder Pages for iLife and iWork ’07 ★
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Not really much of a spoiler at all, though, really. It would be far more surprising if iLife and iWork ’07 updates were not announced during the keynote next week.
- Guardian Story Ostensibly About What It’s Like to Have a Meeting With Steve Jobs ★
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Sort of a bait and switch, in my opinion: this piece written by former Apple sales executive David Sobotta is billed as an insider’s view of what it’s like to have a meeting with Steve Jobs and what his thoughts are regarding tablet computers and mobile phones, but, really, it doesn’t seem like Sobotta ever had much face time at all with Jobs, and the piece is really mostly about Sobotta’s completely speculative predictions about Macworld Expo. The most interesting tidbit is Sobotta’s claim that Jobs is so secretive he won’t allow people to take notes when he speaks during meetings.
The best ever “what it’s like to meet with Steve Jobs” tale of recent vintage remains Cabel Sasser’s “The True Story of Audion”.
- 2007: The Year in Preview ★
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Macworld asks Chris Breen, Andy Ihnatko, Adam Engst, John Moltz, and yours truly for our predictions for 2007. Am I nuts for thinking we might see 8-core Mac Pros announced next week?
- Dan Benjamin’s Macworld Expo Predictions ★
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Nice list. I agree with a bunch of them.