Roundup: Google goes deeper into TV ads, CNN uses Facebook Connect, Flickr’s new homepage and more

Here’s the latest action:

Google starting to catch on to this TV ad thing? –It’s been almost two years since the search advertising giant made its first foray into television advertising. In order to grow, it’s going to need more time slots (inventory) to sell. It took a step in that direction this week, striking a deal with Harris Corp., a company that will help add and manage new inventory. Google TV Ads also made a deal with COREMedia, which will help measure the performance of direct response television ads. NewTeeVee has more.

CNN uses Facebook Connect to share debate comments — The cable news channel has an area on its site that allows users of the social network Facebook to use their logins to sign-in and leave comments about the most recent debate. Facebook Connect also made these comments viewable on both CNN.com and Facebook itself. Inside Facebook has more.

Flickr rolls out new homepage — The new landing page for the photo sharing site has been in testing for several weeks, but now all will see it. Basically, it looks more like a feed of information, like all other social networks have.

Nokia profit falls — The world’s largest handset manufacturer saw a 30 percent decline in profit in the third quarter. The reason? Competition and worldwide economic issues. The Wall Street Journal has more.

Will Wright weighs in on Spore DRM — The Spore creator wishes he paid more attention to it, but he didn’t realize it’d be such an issue. He also thinks this is part of the growing pains inherent to the transition from brick and mortar game sales to online, downloadable ones. Kotaku has more. Meanwhille, Gamasutra has Wright’s boss, EA chief executive John Riccitiello, talking about it.

The Weekly Standard discovers Twitter — The political magazine/site is clearly on top of things. The best line? “It’s an ingenious way of keeping in touch, particularly for people who need to expose as much of their lives to public scrutiny as possible.”

Glam hires a CFO — Former Shutterfly chief financial officer Stephen E. Recht joins the team.

A blogger has an idea — Allen Stern of CenterNetworks has launched CloudContacts, a service that allows you to send you business cards in and have them posted on the web accessible from anywhere. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me as I stare at a stack of hundreds of them which I will never go through — and then be annoyed when I need to find someone.

Brightkite for the iPhone looks great, is late — The service, which has a central focus on location, would have been perfect as a social network for the iPhone 3G. Too bad it took them this long to make an app while others like Loopt and Whrrl were ready to go on day one. See it in action below. Mashable has more.