By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: January 11, 2008
Friday, 11 January 2008
- Rory Prior on the Impact of NetNewsWire’s Release as Freeware ★
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Rory Prior, developer of NewsLife, a competing feed reader:
Honestly I am a little bitter about this, what NewsGator has done is effectively anti-competitive, NNW has somewhere between 10 to 17% of the entire RSS market (that’s across all platforms) and probably 70% or more of the Mac share (I’ve not been able to dig up any conclusive figures on this however). To suddenly make that product free is obviously going to decimate the competition.
For what it’s worth — and keep in mind that DF’s traffic almost certainly isn’t representative of the Mac market as a whole — NetNewsWire utterly dominates the desktop feed reader share in my server logs. According to Mint, 16 percent of my feed traffic goes to NetNewsWire users, and another 19 percent goes to NewsGator online, much of which I suspect goes to NNW users with synching turned on. The only other desktop apps that account for 1 percent or more of my feed traffic are Vienna (2%), Firefox (1%), and NewsFire (1%). For comparison, Google Reader has 10 percent, and AppleSyndication (the framework for RSS in Safari) is under 1 percent.
- Alex Payne: Shared Hosting Is a Ghetto ★
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Alex Payne:
Well, the Java community ignored shared hosting users. The Python community ignored shared hosting users. Basically every development community save Perl and PHP have stayed the hell away from shared hosting. Why? Because shared hosting is a ghetto.
- James Bennett on Modern Web Frameworks and Shared Hosting ★
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James Bennett:
As I see it, there are three major issues facing frameworks on shared hosting.
First off, the new wave of popular frameworks all make a clean break from a traditional CGI-style model where the application is simply loaded and executed fresh on each and every request; this is a necessary change (reloading a framework like Rails or Django on every request would result in horrific performance), but one that causes headaches for web hosts.
- Exciting Macworld Expo News From Apple ★
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News from Moscone: a banner from Apple that’s using a new identity font: Myriad Pro Light. (Or, I think, a slightly customized-for-Apple variant of Myriad Pro Light. Apple’s usual Myriad Pro is slightly customized.)
Oh, also, a slogan for the show: “There’s something in the air.” Guesses: (mild) an AirPort-enabled network backup storage device for Time Machine; (medium) some sort of ubiquitous wireless networking for new MacBooks; (hot) the long-fabled touchscreen tablet-sized Newton-y thing, replete with ubiquitous wireless networking.
- The Easiest Way to Charge Money for Software ★
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Matt Linderman:
Q: What’s the easiest way to charge money for software? A: Build software that helps people make (or save) money.
- Layer Tennis: Veerle Pieters vs. Cindy Li ★
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Very fun, very stylish match.
- The Joy of Tech: Macworld Expo Celebrity Checklist ★
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It’s highly unlikely that I’ll be wearing one, but you should.
- Interarchy 9.0 ★
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Nice update to my favorite file transfer utility. Adds support for a new transfer protocol built on top of SSH; listings and mirror updates are significantly faster than via SFTP. UI-wise, the best new feature is drag-reorderable tabs. And who doesn’t love a release notes entry like this one:
Interarchy now has much improved resolution independence. If Apple ever get their act together and finish Mac OS X’s resolution independence support Interarchy should be ready.
