No, that wasn’t a typo. There’s actually a thing called ‘Facebook Places’. It’s the latest and greatest feature from the giant social networking site. ‘Places’ is an application that is targeted at those with web-enabled phones. Similar to the Google Maps Profile & Foursquare, it is a way to virally share where someone is physically located.

Here’s another great infographic from FlowTown and All Techno Blog.

I’m really a sucker for infographics and this one I found over at All Techno Blog is great.

If you’re like thousands of Americans, you’ve discovered the magic of Groupon– when Groupon held a 50% in GAP stores last week nationwide, they sold hundreds of thousands of them, crashing the system and causing some users troubles when they tried to purchase the deal. Groupon works by only making each daily deal effective once a certain number of people purchase the deal. Due to the popularity of the site, most of the deals do get “tipped”, allowing them to be active.

CNN.com had a great article today about social media ‘check-in’ sites that you can use from your couch. They mentioned a few great sites that, like, Foursquare, lets you check in. However, instead of checking into bars, stores, and restaurants, users can check into the TV shows they are watching, their hobbies, or books they are reading. Here are few sites that I’d like to call, “social media for couch potatoes”.