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.

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.

Editor note: We also recommend Momentile, a website where you are encouraged to publish one photo every day, for 1 year.

Taking the picture is just part of the fun. After you have snapped that excellent shot, you might want to share it with your friends and worldwide family. Here is a list of great photo sharing sites.

By James Adams

Google the term “search engine optimization”, or SEO, and in 1/3 of a second you’ll have about 36 million results! Needless to say, all of that information can be a bit overwhelming. So where should you start? A good way to dig into the world of SEO is simply this: Find keywords that are currently popular, and then build some content around them. Here’s a brief look at six tools that will help you to do just that.

Here are my responses to Darren Rowse’s 7 link challenge that he posted on ProBlogger on July 16. It was a little time consuming- there is so much great content out there! But I’m proud of what I’ve come up with. Have you done the 7 link challenge? Let me know in the comments!