First, eBay is laying off 150 people of the 15,500 who work there, about 1%. Smart alignment of PayPal and eBay operations staff. Doesn't appear to affect Skype.

About Joost:

• Portfolio breaks the rumor you'll be able to play Joost television shows as easily as you play YouTube videos.
• Silicon Alley Insider finds it
• Stan Schroeder comments: "This, however, is big; having to download a desktop application to watch videos online surely annoys and drives away many potential users."

My take... a lesson for Skype: go where the users are, remove obstacles to adoption like Skype's 20MB+ download before your first Skype call. Get your click-to-your-first-call down from 10-20 minutes to 10 seconds.