Little update to my Flickr app that calculates your most popular places: now you can see your most popular countries, localities, regions and neighbourhoods.

Check it out:

Flickr Top Places

Coming soon after the announcement of Google’s new Chrome browser and its V8 JavaScript engine, the WebKit project has now released details of SquirrelFish Extreme. An update to the never officially released SquirrelFish engine, the benchmarks against Safari 3.1 certainly look impressive. Other benchmarks also show it outperforming both V8 and Firefox 3.1’s TraceMonkey engine.

SquirrelFish Extreme uses four different technologies to deliver much better performance than the original SquirrelFish: bytecode optimizations, polymorphic inline caching, a lightweight “context threaded” JIT compiler, and a new regular expression engine that uses our JIT infrastructure.

Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme

Very entertaining talk from Flickr’s Cal Henderson on Django’s shortcomings.

I’ve been messing around with a little Flickr application this afternoon which shows your top places. Here are mine:

Give it a try and post a comment with your number one place:

Flickr Top Places

Unlike the rather terse release notes for the iPhone Software Update 2.01, the 2.1 notes are much more informative:

oneConnect for iPhone

Originally uploaded by hey mr glen

Today, Yahoo have released a beta iPhone application called oneConnect. One of the cool features is Pulse, which shows you status updates from your friends on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr. Very handy.

Yahoo! oneConnect™ for iPhone. A new way to stay in touch.

Despite his carefully cultivated “maverick” image, McCain is playing it traditional and conservative by using HTML 4.01, the W3C spec from 1999. Obama shows himself to be much more progressive, adopting the 21st century XHTML 1.0 transitional standard.

Obama is RESTful » Idol Hands: Days in the Life of an Alpha Geek

Mr. Stephen Fry introduces you to free software, and reminds you of a very special birthday

Freedom Fry — “Happy birthday to GNU”

Google have announced news of Chrome, a new open source Webkit-based browser. The central premise is that it has been designed from the ground-up to work efficiently with the demanding web applications of today’s web. In particular, it features a JavaScript engine called V8 which can utilise multiple processes, as opposed to the single-process engines that power Firefox and Safari.

As Google are emphasising performance, it will be interesting to compare their efforts with Safari’s new SquirrelFish JavaScript engine.

Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project