By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: April 14, 2007
Saturday, 14 April 2007
- Macworld: Rip DVDs for Playback on Apple TV ★
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Jonathan Seff explains how to do it using MediaFork (soon to be called Handbrake once again) and VisualHub.
- Tim Bray on Twitter’s Scaling Problems ★
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Tim Bray:
In the big picture, Twitter did exactly the right thing. They had a good idea and they buckled down and focused on delivering something as cool as possible as fast as possible, and it’s really hard, in early 2007, to beat Rails for that. When all of a sudden there were a few tens of thousands of people using it, then they went to work on the scaling.
- HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web ★
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Very nice overview by David Andersson regarding what the deal is with HTML 5. If you’ve been wondering just what the point is about all this HTML 5 stuff, read this. (Via Mark Pilgrim.)
- S.W.A.P. ★
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In color.
(Speaking of the Swap Meat, the limited-edition DF shirts are going fast fast fast. Mediums are sold out, Large and XL soon to follow.)
- The Economist May Be Confused ★
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So there’s this article in The Economist saying Apple made a big mistake and the iPhone is doomed because it uses the relatively slow EDGE network for mobile wireless, and there’s this new Helio Ocean phone coming out later this spring for $295 and it uses EV-DO, which is faster than EDGE. (The Ocean looks like a cool phone, but notice how few of the photos show the OS.)
But then the article goes on to point out that Wi-Fi — which the iPhone supports — is faster than EV-DO, and that long-term, WiMAX looks like it’s going to kick some major ass in terms of range and data transfer speeds. Hint to those complaining about the iPhone feature set: Just because the original iPhone uses EDGE doesn’t mean all future iPhones until the end of time will use EDGE. Duh.