Facebook applications are the new thing these days, and those (annoying) Quiz applications hold the largest percentage of all applications available out there. But you hardly see any of these applications which have some real value, until now that is.

Mozilla’s Security Quiz is the first Facebook quiz application that actually does something useful. The application asks the user five basic questions about Internet Security, and ranks your knowledge based on them. Interestingly, the application also serves as a security and privacy guideline for developers who design quiz applications because this app doesn’t ask for or store any personal information on your Facebook profile – not even your name.

Taggable photos have taken Facebook by storm. More often than not, you’d find your name on the face of Master Yoda or Mr. Burns or even on Playboy models (has happened, believe me). And you know what happens next – You start getting lots of comment notification emails from Random people you don’t even know, you end up wasting most of your time checking your notifications, your boss then fires you, your girlfriend leaves you and your thrown out of your home/apartment, Martian plants erupt from Earth’s core and have long elastic vines that climb inside your body from the behind and RIP your lungs out and – Ok maybe I exaggerated a little. Its not that bad, they don’t actually rip out your lungs, they just plant their seeds in them.

Anyways I’m sure most of you wouldn’t want that to happen. And the one easy way to stop it is to kill photo notification emails once and for all. But that would be a little too extreme in my opinion because you don’t always get SPAM. You also get some comments and tags on those old moments shared by your friends when life was much more simple and fun. So here is my tip on how you can eliminate the comment SPAM without compromising the genuine stuff.

Just ran into this new Bing Cashback Ad via TechCrunch (yeah they actually posted something pro-Microsoft). Anyways the ad is cool and happens to be the first ever to only focus on Cashback. Cashback was shown in a couple of more ads like the original Bing launch ad (embedded below).

From the latest wind of rumors out on the internet, The Wall Street Journal, AdAge and a number of other sources are reporting that Microsoft Yahoo! search deal has been signed and the announcement would come later today. Though we don’t know the exact parameters of the deal, WSJ had this to say:

Microsoft, which last year made a failed $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo, would finally win what it wanted most from the Internet pioneer — huge volumes of queries that run through Yahoo’s search engine.

At the same time, Yahoo is expected to reap additional search-advertising business to expand its share of the market.

It isn’t clear who would benefit the most out of this, as Bing would get the much needed boost in search market volume, while Yahoo! would get better search advisement deals via Microsoft adCenter. Besides that, I don’t think other players like Google would be sitting quietly about this, because the Google Yahoo! advertisement deal also attracted a lot of attention from legal authorities.

While the previous ads in the Bing marketing campaign revolved around the Search Overload syndrome, the latest ad actually shows off a very useful feature of Microsoft’s decision engine – the Ticket Price Predictor.

While other search engines can help you find the right flight, Microsoft’s decision engine can also tell you when is the best time to make that trip saving you a couple of bucks in the process. Watch the Ad embedded below after the break.