By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Apple TV 2.0 can now receive and play audio transmitted from iTunes.
Terrific questions and answers regarding EveryBlock.
New $89 graphics app, with specialized features for creating resolution-independent images and icons — more or less a specialized app for creating user-interface graphics. There’s a nice in-app tutorial that comes up during the first launch. Beta-tester Peter Hosey has more to say about Opacity here.
The Financial Times:
Google on Wednesday said it had seen 50 times more searches on Apple’s iPhone than any other mobile handset, adding weight to the group’s confidence at being able to generate significant revenues from the mobile internet.
“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,” Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations told the Financial Times at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Just bought by Sun, apparently works well on Mac OS X.
Glenn Fleishman on where Apple fits in with the new AT&T/Starbucks partnership.
Vara’s new extremely impressive $100 screencast recording app for Leopard. Allows you to record both your screen and video from a DV camera simultaneously, and includes its own built-in video editing interface.
Miguel Helft reporting for The New York Times:
The letter is not likely to hold many surprises for investors who follow Yahoo closely, as it largely repeats points the company’s executives have made in recent months. And it sheds no light into what next steps Yahoo might pursue, following Monday’s rejection of Microsoft’s offer. Microsoft has vowed to press forward with its bid.
Yang did, however, use capital letters this time.