By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: April 9, 2007
Monday, 9 April 2007
- MPAA Compiles List of Top 25 ‘Pirate’ Universities ★
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Glad to see my alma mater on the list.
- Jeff Jarvis: No Twinkie Badges Here ★
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Jeff Jarvis on the silly “Blogger code of ethics” story that made the front page of today’s New York Times.
Here’s my proposed rule: Don’t be an asshole. Note that because my rule makes no mention of “blogs”, it can be applied to any medium.
- Paul Thurrott on the Nintendo Wii ★
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Paul Thurrott:
As for the Wii, I’m going to have to disagree with the consensus and call it as I see it: Unless you have very young kids with no video game experience at all, skip out on this console. The Wii is a joke, a novelty console that doesn’t offer much staying power. Either the 360 or PS3 would be a better choice for almost anyone.
That’s just crazy talk.
- Fun Times With VMware Beta 3 ★
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VMware, though still in beta, seems to be shaping into a serious competitor to Parallels.
- 100 Million iPods Sold ★
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Apple PR trumpeting the 100 millionth iPod sold. The first was sold five and a half years ago.
- Microsoft is Dead: The Cliffs Notes ★
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Paul Graham:
So maybe I’d better explain exactly what I did mean. What I meant was not that Microsoft is suddenly going to stop making money, but that people at the leading edge of the software business no longer have to think about them.
In other words, not dead in the business sense, but dead in the nerd sense.
- The Unintended Consequences of Rogers’s Packet Shaping ★
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Michael Geist:
If that was not bad enough, there is now speculation at my own university that the packet shaping is making it very difficult for University of Ottawa users to use email applications from home. The University of Ottawa uses a persistent SSL encryption technology for the thousands of professors and students who access their email from off-campus. There is speculation that Rogers is mistakenly treating the email traffic as BitTorrent traffic, thereby creating noticeable slowdowns.