It appears that the Daily Deal space is getting a bit more crowded as crowdsourced directory service Yelp recently confirmed that they have been testing Groupon-style deals in Sacramento. http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/26/yelp-gears-up-to-take-on-groupon-starts-testing-local-deals/ Switched.com later reported that the above mentioned TechCrunch Groupon story was blown out of proportion. http://www.switched.com/2010/07/27/yelp-is-not-competing-with-groupon/ Time will tell.

The Republican presidential candidacy is still far from decided, based on the split primaries and mixed polls so far. So here’s another source for trying to figure who’s really pulling ahead — the number of new Facebook fans that each candidate is getting, according to the Inside Facebook Election Tracker .

Facebook COO Shifts Europe focus from privacy to economy -  At a recent conference in Europe, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told the audience that the economy is probably more of a concern than privacy. She said so given an impending privacy law draft that would affect 27 European Union countries. Specifically, she suggested that the law could have a negative impact on the EU economy. [Image via  Facebook ] Facebook has a €2.6 billion U.K.

As just about everyone should know by now , the seeds of what grew into Facebook were planted at Harvard. Might there be a bunch of mini-Zucks lurking in the dorms of Cambridge?

The Windows release of Kinect is coming up in a couple days , but for most people that won’t be a major event: the Kinect they have is sitting on their TV or in a drawer, waiting to be taken out for an impromptu Dance Central 2 party. Of the 10 million Kinects out there, the only ones connected to computers are the ones being fiddled with by the various hackers and students making science projects out the things