By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 8, 2008
Tuesday, 8 January 2008
- Adobe and Omniture: Further Details ★
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John Nack:
Q.: Why does Adobe use a server whose name is so suspicious-looking?
A.: I’m afraid the answer is that we don’t really know. The fact is that this SWF tracking code already existed on the Macromedia side at the time the companies merged, and it was adopted without change by a number of products for CS3. The people who wrote the code originally did not document why they used that server name, and we can’t find anyone who remembers. I’m sorry we aren’t able to provide a more solid, definitive explanation.
Q.: Follow-on: Given that you can’t give a good reason why Adobe is using a server whose name is so suspicious, are you going to change the name?
A.: Absolutely. […]
Kudos to Nack for the way he’s dealt with this.
- Scalzi on Sony BMG’s Ridiculous ‘DRM-Free Music’ Scheme ★
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Sony BMG, the dumbest of the dumb.
- Bento 1.0 ★
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FileMaker’s new iWork-style personal database ships.
- OmniFocus 1.0 ★
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Long-in-development task management app from The Omni Group ships. $80, or just $60 for owners of OmniOutliner Pro.
- New Xserves, Too ★
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Apple PR: “Starting at just $2,999, the new Xserve has up to two Quad-Core 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon processors for 8-core performance, a new server architecture, faster front side buses, faster memory, up to 3TB of internal storage and two PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots for greater performance and flexibility.”
- Apple Releases New Eight-Core Mac Pro ★
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Why announce now, a week before Macworld Expo? Clearly because they have plenty of other, more consumery, new products to introduce. (Plus, now that Apple is using Intel CPUs, and because Intel publishes a roadmap, these new systems, while impressive, weren’t exactly out of the blue.)
- How to Read The New Yorker in 10 Easy Steps ★
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Heather Champ’s technique largely overlaps with mine, except I never read the back page Cartoon Caption Contest first, and I think Anthony Lane is a terrible film critic.
- Casio EXILIM Pro EX-F1: 60 fps ★
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This new $999 camera from Casio sounds amazing:
Capturing up to 60 frames per second at full resolution and a staggering 1200 fps if you drop the image size to 336 × 96, this innovative camera will also shoot 1920 × 1080 Full HD movies at 60 fps.