By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 15, 2008
Friday, 15 February 2008
- Greenspun on Internet Software Patents ★
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Philip Greenspun:
I was asked “Why didn’t you patent this yourself, if you developed it first?” My reply was “It only took me an hour to build; if I went down to the patent office after every hour of programming, I wouldn’t get very much done.”
- Acorn 1.1b1 ★
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Gus Mueller on what’s new in Acorn 1.1:
A web export window, polygon selection tool, “trim to edges” menu command, vector tool improvements, a new crop widget, menu commands to move layers around, a drop shadow filter for bitmap layers, Levels and Auto Levels (yay!), drag images out of the layers list, […] resize an image via a percentage, option-drag bitmap layers in the canvas and the layers list to duplicate them, a grid, and lots of bug fixes.
- China Mobile Claims 400,000 iPhones in Use on Its Network ★
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If true, one out of every ten iPhones sold to date is in use, unlocked, in China.
- Computer Administrative Debris ★
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Cathy Shive, on “computer administrative debris”:
The iPhone and Apple TV-type applications have it easy in this sense, because their users are mostly browsing content. The developers don’t often need to provide them with a context to adjust or create the content. Most desktop apps, on the other hand, are all about providing that context. Still, there are some things that desktop application developers can do to trim the amount of debris on their interfaces.
- Amazon S3 Storage Down This Morning ★
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Dan Frommer:
Amazon’s S3 Web-storage-on-demand service has won a lot of mindshare in the Web 2.0/startup world. Which means when the service breaks down, as it did this morning, you’re going to hear a lot about it. Users are complaining that parts of Twitter and Tumblr — graphics, for example — are down.