By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 24, 2007
Wednesday, 24 January 2007
- CNN: ‘Microsoft in Hot Water Over Wikipedia Edits’ ★
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I don’t think this is outrageous, certainly not by Microsoft’s historical standards, but I do think Microsoft knew that this sort of arrangement is against Wikipedia’s policies. “We think IBM is doing the same thing” is not a good defense.
- Transmit 3.5.6 and Unison 1.7.8 ★
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Minor Transmit update to fix a bug from the MOAB gang, along with a bug-fix release for Panic’s other major app, Unison.
- Sundown ★
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Terrance Talbot’s parallel tale to Paul Kim’s:
Imagine this: IFC looked a helluvalot like AppKit, in Java. No AWT. And it came with a friggin’ Interface Builder!
- The Sun Also Sets ★
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Paul Kim on how Java desktop application development turned into such a convoluted mess:
It quickly became evident that the people involved from the JavaSoft side had little to no experience with OO and/or GUI programming. I realized that if these were the people in charge of implementing the GUI toolkit for a platform, then the project is going to be a mess. Various design discussions ensued with the people who didn’t have any real experience with OO programming or developing and shipping real desktop apps overriding those who did.
- Marc A. Garrett Interviews Mark Hamburg Regarding Adobe Lightroom ★
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Terrific interview with Adobe’s Mark Hamburg about Lightroom’s user interface, particularly its use of task-oriented panels rather than Photoshop-style dialog boxes:
Mark Hamburg: So the diagram that I would draw for this: Photoshop with a big circle in the middle, and you go out to various things; you go out and come back, you go out and come back. The model for Lightroom was to say “We still have a core but the user never actually goes into it. The user just goes and bounces around the things that are on the outside of the circle.”
- Record Labels Contemplate Unrestricted Digital Music ★
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Victoria Shannon, reporting for The New York Times:
As even digital music revenue growth falters because of rampant file-sharing by consumers, the major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions — a step they once vowed never to take.
As I wrote back in June, if the record industry really wants interoperability, they’re going to have to abandon DRM.
- Should I Exhibit at Macworld? Part 2: On the Show Floor ★
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Second part of Paul Kafasis’s informative series on exhibiting at trade shows.
- Food Network Running Subliminal Ads for McDonald’s? ★
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Single-frame (i.e. 1/29th of one second) ad for McDonald’s appears on Food Network. I’m hoping maybe this is some sort of mistake — but one of Kottke’s readers emailed him to say they do it all the time. Andy Baio points out that studies have shown this sort of thing doesn’t actually work, but the fact that they’d even try it is rather disturbing.
(And of course now I’m thinking about the scene in Fight Club where Tyler Durden takes a job as a movie theater projectionist…)
- Jobs Questioned by SEC Investigators Regarding Backdating Saga ★
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Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs was questioned by government investigators leading the U.S. probe into backdated stock options grants at the company, lawyers familiar with the matter said.
Jobs met with officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department last week in San Francisco, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the interviews are confidential. Apple said last month an internal review found “no misconduct” by Jobs or current management.
- FinderPop 2.0.1 ★
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Turly O’Connor’s contextual menu juggernaut gets another minor update.