Photos and video can be even more personal than a handwritten card.

Cult of Mac has a great write-up of an app for iOS called Girls Around Me, which essentially displays check-ins and public profiles of girls around you. With a little shift in context it could easily be confused for a hot new startup (discoverability meets speed dating!), but no, it really is just a way for guys to creep on nearby girls who have failed to lock down their info

Daily deals site Groupon today issued a pretty significant revision of the financial results it previously reported for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2011. According to the company, it actually made $14.3 million less in revenue during the fourth quarter of 2011 than it previously reported — $492.2 million, compared to the previously stated $506.5 million.

With Evinar, you can’t bring audience members onto a live streaming stage with you, but you can broadcast anything else.

This year was supposed to be the year of the Ultrabook. It was supposed to be the year where svelte notebooks became standard. It was supposed to be the year that Intel’s latest ultra-mobile platform gave Windows PC makers something to celebrate.

Apart from a few single-day dips this month, Mitt Romney leads the Republican presidential primary candidates in new Facebook Likes per day, according to our Inside Facebook Election Tracker . This week Newt Gingrich had several days of negative fan growth, losing as many as 50 Likes in a day. Although Gingrich has scaled back on his campaign, he tells the press that he will stay in the race until Romney gets the 1,144 convention delegates he needs to win the nomination. Despite winning decisively in Louisiana on March 24, Rick Santorum saw his rate of new fans decline this week.

Twitter has taken its Tweetdeck app offline after an apparent bug has possibly given some Tweetdeck users access to others’ accounts.

Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marksw, Rob La Gesse, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm PT.

From the outside, we early adopters see Best Buy as a dinosaur in a dying world. The company recently announced the closing of 50 stores in the U.S. and 400 layoffs, mostly in corporate

In the lead-up to today’s mandatory switch to Timeline for pages, a number of companies released so-called studies about how the new design affects fan engagement rate. However, these reports — and many news outlets that covered them — completely misinterpret cause and effect. Timeline is primarily a design change and is unlikely to be directly responsible for any differences in fan engagement because most interaction occurs on posts within News Feed, not on pages themselves