Large Marketing Community Opposes Google-Yahoo Deal

The Association of National Advertisers is pretty important; its members have spent over $100 billion on marketing-related efforts.  Unfortunately for Google and Yahoo, the ANA isn't supporting their search advertising deal, and has instead expressed its objections in a letter to the Department of Justice.

Google Chrome Gets Slapped Around in Germany

It doesn’t get any more “official” than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany’s oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news Tagesschau announced the following under the headline “Warning against internet browser"*:

You’re Not Safe Using Facebook Apps

In the name of finding any possible way that hackers can get at your data, a group of researchers has penetrated Facebook via a could-be-malicious application proving that Facebook Apps are unsafe. The app seems harmless enough. It's a National Geographic "photo of the day" app that gives users (obviously) a different photo each day.

Bebo Alters Users’ Profile Names

Bebo was once referred to as "the best social network" based on a variety of factors, one of which being its protection of members' privacy. It is that protection, however, that has a lot of its users peeved. They are apparently changing users' profile names at will whether they like it or not.