By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: April 3, 2009
Friday, 3 April 2009
- Joshua Schachter on URL Shorteners ★
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Joshua Schachter:
The worst problem is that shortening services add another layer of indirection to an already creaky system. A regular hyperlink implicates a browser, its DNS resolver, the publisher’s DNS server, and the publisher’s website. With a shortening service, you’re adding something that acts like a third DNS resolver, except one that is assembled out of unvetted PHP and MySQL, without the benevolent oversight of luminaries like Dan Kaminsky and St. Postel.
- Apple Design Awards, 2009 ★
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Applications now open for Mac and iPhone apps. (There’s a nice photo of the team from the Omni Group, which won last year for OmniFocus for iPhone.)
- Mike Arrington Still a Jackass, Film at 11 ★
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Kara Swisher calls bullshit on Mike Arrington:
TechCrunch, which slapped a loud headline on its first post, “Sources: Google in Late-Stage Talks to Buy Twitter,” then changed it to “Sources: Google in Talks to Acquire Twitter (Updated).”
What’s next? “Google and Twitter Have a Lovely Organic Lunch and Discuss Trading T-Shirts (Updated Update)”?
The TechCrunch report, penned by Michael Arrington, also added a let’s-just-cover-all-our-bases update at the bottom of the ever-changing post that then hedged the news it had just hyped.
This is not new for the tech blog, especially related to Google.
On July 28, 2008, TechCrunch reported: “Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For ‘Around $200 Million,’” and said there was a letter of intent signed.
The Washington Post must be so proud to have such high-quality bullshit running under its name.
- One Million Downloads of iPhone Skype Client in Two Days ★
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About six downloads per second. Wow.