By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 15, 2007
Saturday, 15 December 2007
- Keith Richards’s ‘Run Rudolph Run’ ★
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Re-released last week for the first time since 1978: Keith Richards’s first solo single, a killer take of Chuck Berry’s rock-and-roll Christmas classic. My wife found a semi-decent digital version of this on Napster a few years ago, where by “semi-decent” I mean “good enough to listen to but you could hear the needle dropping on the turntable the guy used to record it to MP3”.
Worth checking out just for the photo of Keith on the album art. (The song’s in the DRM-free iTunes Plus format, to boot.)
- Letterman Pursuing a Deal With Writers ★
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I still pine for the days of the old strike, when Letterman went back on the air sans writers, running Hal Gurnee’s Network Time Killers in lieu of actual comedy bits. But good for Letterman — this strike is killing my late night mojo.
- Amazon Removes the Database Scaling Wall ★
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Dave Winer on Amazon SimpleDB:
It’s amazing that Microsoft and Google are sitting by and letting Amazon take all this ground in developer-land without even a hint of a response.
- iPhone on EDGE vs. Nokia E61i on 3G ★
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With regard to my previous item suggesting it’s a bad assumption that 3G phones are inherently faster than iPhones on EDGE: iPhone Infoblog (German) ran a side by side comparison of an iPhone on EDGE against a Nokia E61i on 3G, and — guess what — they rendered pages at almost the exact same speed. Needless to say, the pages look far better on the iPhone. (Thanks to Gavin McKeown.)
- ‘Just an Ordinary Phone’ ★
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From an InformationWeek piece on the LG Voyager iPhone knock-off:
“The Apple iPhone shook things up. If you look closely at the iPhone, it’s just an ordinary phone in an extraordinary package,” said Jeff Kagan, a wireless and telecom industry analyst.
Where do they get these clowns?
Also, with regard to statements-as-fact that a Voyager with 3G networking is “faster” than an iPhone on EDGE, how about someone runs some side-by-side benchmarks?
- T-Mobile and Twitter ★
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DeWitt Clinton on T-Mobile’s decision to block Twitter:
If you think the rest of Internet needs net neutrality laws, that’s nothing compared with the backward-facing worldview of the established mobile carriers. You guys aren’t going to last long at this rate, and when it is all said and done no one is going to look back and longingly pine for the days of a handful of restricted carriers running closed networks.
- A Dopplr Tour ★
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Dopplr, a community site for travelers, is now out of beta and open to the public. Worth checking out just for the very well-designed UI, even if you’re not a frequent traveler.