By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 20, 2008
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
- From the DF Archive: Highly Selective ★
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Suggested reading in advance of today’s upcoming fireball: this piece I wrote in August 2006 regarding keyboard selection in lists.
- ‘Keming’ ★
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A typographic neologism from David Friedman.
- HandBrake 0.92 ★
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New version of the excellent open source DVD ripper. Now Leopard-only.
- NYT: Microsoft Said to Plan Proxy Fight for Yahoo ★
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The New York Times:
Microsoft has begun to make preparations to proceed with a proxy fight against Yahoo as it seeks to gain control of the Internet company, people briefed on the matter said on Tuesday.
- Roz Ho Now Leading Microsoft’s Danger Division ★
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Guess who’s heading up Microsoft’s recently-acquired Danger division? Former MacBU honcho and keynote enthusiasm drain Roz Ho. Unlike Matt Rosoff, I don’t think this makes it any more likely at all that Microsoft will turn Danger into some sort of serious iPhone competitor.
- James Duncan Davidson on Aperture 2.0: ‘They Listened’ ★
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James Duncan Davidson on a meeting he had with the Aperture team at Apple after he switched to Lightroom:
The one detail I will share is that, at one point, I’m pretty sure I said something along the lines of “I don’t really care how it is implemented under the covers, but what I need is to be able to zip through several hundred photos quickly and rank them. Boom. Boom. Boom. And while I’m doing that, I don’t want to be waiting on the system to render up the images. Those little delays add up.”
- Duty Calls ★
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XKCD with the funny.