Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the news that eBay is reducing its workforce by 10% is that it had 10,000 employees before the cuts. How many people does it take to run an auction website?
EyeTV Hybrid for sale
I’ve just put my Elgato EyeTV Hybrid on eBay since I rarely use it these days… check it out if you fancy a bargain - no reserve
Flickr for iPhone
Very nice iPhone specific version of Flickr
Flickr Top Places, updated
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:
JavaScript engine war hots up
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
Your top places, according to Flickr
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:
Apple’s Much Improved Release Notes
Unlike the rather terse release notes for the iPhone Software Update 2.01, the 2.1 notes are much more informative:
oneConnect for iPhone
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.



