By John Gruber
OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Perplexity chose WorkOS over building it themselves.
Linked List: January 10, 2011
Monday, 10 January 2011
- ‘For All Our Failings, Despite Our Limitations and Fallibilities, We Humans Are Capable of Greatness’ ★
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Today seems like the right time to relink this wonderful short film by Michael Marantz, based on an excerpt from Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. (Thanks to Chris Henslin for the suggestion.)
As I watched, my wife was in the next room helping our son count past 200, higher than he’d ever counted before.
- Not Helping ★
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Jon Armstrong:
This part of “The Left” is not tying Sarah Palin or trying to pin blame on her (yet) to the heinous assassination attempt and murders this Saturday past. This part of “The Left” wants to have a conversation about the tone and is using Sarah Palin’s recent violent imagery and language as an example to start that conversation.
Right can point the finger back all they want, but we’re not the ones putting crosshairs on peoples’ backs and telling people to reload.
- PerversionTracker Returns (Again) ★
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Oh, this should be good:
Awoken from our slumber by the ungodly appsplosion of the past few years, we emerge to do battle once again with the forces of mediocrity.
- Tweet of the Day ★
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AT&T’s official Twitter account retweets a post from BGR titled “Why I’m not switching to the Verizon iPhone: Need for speed”.
- SmallWorks BrickCase for iPhone 4 ★
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What a great idea: a Lego-compatible iPhone case. I’ve never regularly used a case to hold my iPhones, but I received one of these in the mail from SmallWorks last week (black, of course), and it’s the first case I kept on my iPhone for an extended period of time. It fits great on the phone, and bricks fit great on the case. My six-year-old Lego-obsessed son went nuts for it. You have to love their slogan: “Brick your phone.”
- Joe Wilcox: ‘Why Verizon Won’t Let Apple Announce iPhone’ ★
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Joe Wilcox on why Verizon didn’t announce its iPhone deal last week at CES:
It’s not that Verizon wasn’t allowed, the carrier didn’t want to take away from other new handsets on its network before they were announced — that’s the more sensible conclusion. This week Verizon announced some of the hottest Android handsets available on any US carrier — from HTC, Motorola and Samsung.
Right. And which of those phones is front-page newspaper news? Which are the ones people will line up around the block for on day one?
Verizon isn’t AT&T. The United States’ largest cellular carrier isn’t accustomed to taking crap from handset manufacturers. Verizon controls everything on its network and is quick to customize handsets with its software and services. AT&T is different, or was when Apple launched the original iPhone in June 2007. AT&T made lots of concessions to get iPhone, such as granting Apple control over the software and updates.
Does Wilcox think Verizon will have any control over the iPhone’s software and updates? Does he think there’s going to be a Verizon logo stamped on the hardware?
(To be clear, I don’t think there’s any conflict between Apple and Verizon over this announcement. I think both companies are happy to have it hosted by Verizon in New York. Why would Verizon prefer to announce it tomorrow rather than last week at CES? Easy. More publicity and attention this way. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the iPhone coming to Verizon is bigger news than all phone-related news at CES combined. Maybe even all of CES combined.)
- ‘Dive Into HTML5’ Stats ★
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Mark Pilgrim, on the analytics for the web edition of his Dive Into HTML5 website:
98.7% of the search engine traffic came from Google. Less than 1% came from Bing. The rest came from search engines that I didn’t know still existed.
John Gruber sent me three times as much traffic as Bing.
Let’s make it more: Dive Into HTML5 is a remarkably good book. Detailed, comprehensive, and carefully written. Pilgrim is a natural teacher.
Another neat stat: despite the popularity of the free web edition, the print edition from O’Reilly is selling very well, too. (Perhaps it’s selling well because of the free web edition.)