By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 6, 2008
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
- Daring Fireball RSS Survey ★
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As a test of the aforelinked Google Spreadsheet form feature, I put together a brief four-question survey regarding the Daring Fireball RSS feed. I’ll keep it up for a day or two, and will publish the results. Everyone is free to participate.
Update: Very cool. Using Firefox, if I keep the spreadsheet document open, I can watch the results come in live.
Update 2: Sadly, at some point overnight, the form started generating errors upon submission. No idea what went wrong, but it doesn’t seem to work any more.
- Fantastic New Google Spreadsheet Feature: Forms ★
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Google Docs Blog:
Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address. They won’t need to sign in, and they can respond directly from the email message or from an automatically generated web page. Creating the form is easy: start with a spreadsheet to get the form, or start by creating the form and you’ll get the spreadsheet automatically. Responses are automatically added to your spreadsheet.
I just gave it a shot, and it’s amazingly simple. I’m not sure it could be any easier than this to create surveys or signups. This sort of collaborative feature simply isn’t possible with desktop spreadsheets like Excel and Numbers. (Via Ian Betteridge.)
- QuickTime 7.4.1 Security Update ★
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Another important security update for QuickTime (both Mac and Windows).
- Introducing LCD Scrub ★
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New $18 utility by Daniel Sandler reverses the effects of image persistence on LCD displays. Interesting.
- Ars Benchmarks MacBook Air With Solid State Drive ★
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Too bad the two machines had different CPUs — it sort of defeats the purpose of trying to determine the value of the solid state drive if the machine also has a faster CPU.
- Twitter Stats From Super Bowl Sunday ★
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Twitter traffic graphed against highlights from the game.
- Chyrp ★
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New open-source PHP/MySQL “lightweight” weblog engine by Alex Suraci. Love the design of the project site. Cameron Hunt has switched to Chryp from Tumblr for his splendid cameron.io.