peHUB Second Opinion 6.7

Facebook just created a cutesy video to explain their social plug-ins, replete with folksy sounding voiceover. (If you weren't creeped out by Facebook already, you will be after watching.) Does Microsoft need to sack Steve Ballmer? Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky thinks it's high time. Goldman tries to run out the clock. “We did not ask them to pull up a dump truck to our offices to dump a bunch of rubbish,” says Phil Angelides, the chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Rumor has it that Apple announced something today. Countrywide Not On Your Side agrees to pay $108 million for collecting excessive fees from cash-strapped homeowners. The FTC says it's one of the largest judgments in its history. Ponzi schemer Ken Starr is "all anybody is talking about in the Hamptons or California.” Too bad, too sad for Marsh and McLennan, which sells the analysis and security firm Kroll for a huge loss just six years after buying it.