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Link roundup 8/5/08

August 5th, 2008

Bookmarks Are Dead. Long Live Bookmarks: Jeremy Wagstaff writes about the current state of bookmarks and bookmark synchronization tools in his Loose Wire blog. He discusses the latest release of the Delicious service, PersonalBrain, and what these might mean when combined with new services such as Twitter.

iPhone Calendar Syncing: Daring Fireball’s John Gruber writes describes the differences in the iPhone synchronization models between iTunes and MobileMe. He clearly shows tradeoff’s in each choice. Apple will hopefully bring parity to both options in the near future.

Mozilla SSL policy bad for the Web: I agree with Nat Tuck’s sentiment that the way the Mozilla 3 browser handles self-signed SSL certificates is poorly handled. Nat makes the case that there are plenty of valid reasons to use self signed certificates and that these certificates still offer useful eavesdropping protection. The user interface in the latest Mozilla client virtually ensures that non-technical users will assume that a self-signed certificate is completely invalid.

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