Video chat is still something many people don’t feel comfortable with. For U.S. teens, however, it is quickly becoming a pretty routine way of communicating with each other.

It was just over a month ago that social media management platform HootSuite picked up $20 million in a secondary investment round that valued the company at $200 million. Now we have heard from multiple sources that the company is looking to better than double that: HootSuite is in the process of raising a $50 million round at a $500 million valuation. And what’s making this even more interesting are the investors that are being mentioned in connection with the round: HootSuite is looking to have discussions with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google – a sign of how the surge in social media investments is also giving a lift to companies that are figuring out ways to harness that for third parties.

Researchers at Disney and Carnegie Mellon University have created an interesting new technology using Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing that allows nearly any object to sense multiple points of contact on its complex service.

Facebook says that it will roll out its new self-serve offers feature to all local business pages in the U.S. today. Previously, offers were only available to a small number of premium advertisers and beta partners.

During the conference call this afternoon for their first quarter earnings , LinkedIn executives boasted about the impressive mobile growth they’re seeing. In the last week of March, the company says mobile accounted for 22 percent of unique visitors, up 8 percent from the same period last year.

Facebook today set the price range for its initial public offering at $28 to $35 per share, which would lead the company to raise between $5 billion and $6.3 billion, at a valuation up to $96 billion, according to an updated S-1 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Video platform Brightcove just released its first earnings report after going public in March. Brightcove posted a net loss of $4.3 million – that’s down from $5.8 million last quarter. The company’s revenue for the first financial quarter of 2012 was $19.9 million, an increase of 53% compared to the first quarter of 2011 when the company made $13.1 million.

Anyone who’s played competitive sports knows how important stats, analysis, and post-game film are. They’re an excellent way to improve both personally and on a team level, yet it usually takes a dedicated staff to push out rich, thorough analysis.

One of the most frustrating online experiences for me is trying to track down a web page or tweet that I saw a few days ago. If I’m lucky, I bookmarked the page or favorited the tweet, but most of the time I haven’t, and so I can only sit there and fume

Facebook has just released the promotional video for its pre-IPO roadshow as well its prospectus for investors (embedded below). The 30-minute video is split into five parts covering Facebook’s mission, products and platform, advertising, finance, and its future. After clicking through several SEC disclaimers, you can check it out for yourself.