By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 22, 2007
Thursday, 22 February 2007
- Microsoft Faces $1.5 Billion Payout ★
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BBC News:
Microsoft must pay French phone equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent $1.52bn (£777m) after a US court ruled the IT giant had infringed audio patents.
Alcatel had sued Microsoft, saying two patents related to the standards used for converting audio into MP3 files had been breached.
I don’t know anything about the details of this case, but $1.5 billion is a lot of money, even for Microsoft.
- BBC Not Planning to Use Windows-Only DRM ★
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From a January 31 press release:
Platform-agnostic approach: As proposed, the TV catch-up service on the internet relies on Microsoft technology for the digital rights management (DRM) framework. The Trust will require the BBC Executive to adopt a platform-agnostic approach within a reasonable timeframe. “This requires the BBC to develop an alternative DRM framework to enable users of other technology, for example, Apple and Linux, to access the on-demand services.”
(Thanks to everyone who sent this in.)
- What Does Marsellus Wallace Look Like? ★
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Scene from Pulp Fiction re-interpreted as typographic motion graphics. Top-notch work. (Via Jim Coudal.)
- The Onion: ‘Apple Hard At Work Making iPhone Obsolete’ ★
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The Onion:
Only a month after the much-heralded announcement of the iPhone, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that his engineers were already working around-the-clock on the touchscreen smartphone’s far-superior replacement.
This might be the second-most prescient story ever to appear in The Onion. Hard to top this one from January 2001, of course.
- BBC Petition to Support Operating Systems Other Than Windows ★
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Web-based petition on the web site of the British prime minister:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to prevent the BBC from making its iPlayer on-demand television service available to Windows users only, and instruct the corporation to provide its service for other operating systems also.
I think it’s a bad idea for anyone to make something like this Windows-only, but it seems particularly outrageous for a publicly funded entity such as the BBC. This is a chance for the BBC to lead the way.
- Learning From Founders ★
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From Paul Graham’s foreword to Jessica Livingston’s Founders at Work
A few years ago I read an article in which a car magazine modified the “sports” model of some production car to get the fastest possible standing quarter mile. You know how they did it? They cut off all the crap the manufacturer had bolted onto the car to make it look fast.
Business is broken the same way that car was. The effort that goes into looking productive is not merely wasted, but actually makes organizations less productive.
- MarsEdit Q&A With Daniel Jalkut and Brent Simmons ★
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NewsGator has a nice interview with Daniel Jalkut and Brent Simmons about the history and future of MarsEdit.
- Red Sweater Acquires MarsEdit ★
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Daniel Jalkut:
You read that right, no need to run for another cup of coffee. MarsEdit, the kick-ass, intuitive web-publishing powerhouse which I’ve been using to write entries here since I started blogging almost two years ago, is now part of the Red Sweater family of products. What an exciting day!
Nearly every word I write for Daring Fireball is published through MarsEdit, so this is good news for me, too.
- DragThing 5.7.2 ★
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Two new dock themes and a new feature that lets you paste clipping items directly into other applications. (Full release notes here.)
- ADC Developer Pavilion Interviews from Macworld 2007 ★
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Apple:
At Macworld 2007, the Apple Developer Connection hosted 48 developers in the ADC Developer Pavilion. Located just next to the Apple booth, these developers were able to present their products at the biggest Mac customer event of the year. … To find out more about the developers in the pavilion, we interviewed nine of them.
(Via James Duncan Davidson, who took the photos.)