By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 17, 2007
Saturday, 17 February 2007
- Wall Street Journal Story on Apple’s Deal With Cingular ★
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There’s a front-page story in today’s Wall Street Journal about the extraordinary deal Apple worked out with Cingular regarding the iPhone. Sadly, of course, the story is behind the Journal’s paid subscriber wall. The gist: Apple negotiated with Verizon, too, but they wouldn’t budge on their demand that the phone use Verizon’s proprietary “V Cast” software for selling video and music; Cingular, on the other hand, was willing to cede complete control of the phone’s hardware and software to Apple.
Here’s Fake Steve’s take.
- Steve Jobs and Michael Dell Speak Together at Texas Education Forum ★
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Kind of surprising that the CEO of a company that sells so many computers to schools would be so blunt, but I agree with Jobs completely regarding teacher unions:
Comparing schools to small companies and principals to CEOs, [Jobs] asked rhetorically what kind of CEO can’t hire the people he wants, get rid of workers who aren’t performing or pay better workers more.
American schools “have become unionized in the worst possible way,” Jobs said.
Until that is remedied, he said, schools won’t be able to attract the best teachers and administrators.
- Wii Transfer 2.2 ★
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Now supports iTunes playlists and browsing by album.
- I, Cringingly ★
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Marko Karppinen on Cringely’s latest column:
“I, Cringely” is a very popular technology blog/column on the PBS site. Here’s how it works. Mark Stevens, the author, writes a column about a hot technology topic every week. What makes it funny (and, I guess, popular) is that he almost never understands the topic or knows what he’s talking about.
What’s weird (or maybe sad?) is that Cringely used to be great. He’s always had a tendency to take his speculation a bit over the top, but that’s what made Cringely Cringely. But it used to be obvious that he knew what he was talking about fundamentally. More and more these days, it seems clear he’s completely out of touch with current technology.
Karppinen’s right: The problem with columns like this one isn’t that his speculation is wrong, but that his facts are wrong.