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Where are the most socially savvy small businesses (SMB) in the U.S.? Most reside in California, considering the state has three of the top five social cities.

This list is from small business market sales intelligence provider, Radius‘s Social Small Business Report. They looked at SMBs in the top 85 U.S. cities and ranked them via the Radius Social Index, a score compromised of social media presence and daily deal activity.

The top 10 list as it currently stands looks like this:

1. San Francisco
2. Los Angeles
3. Washington D.C.
4. Seattle
5. San Diego
6. Chicago
7. New York
8. Dallas/Ft. Worth
9. Phoenix
10. Tampa

Some other cool stuff from The Social Small Business Report:

• Grand Rapids, MI (29%) and Oklahoma, OK (28%) have the highest percentage of SMBs with Facebook pages.
• Metropolitan cities that serve as home to major daily deal companies such as Living Social (Washington, DC – .5%) and Groupon (Chicago, IL – .4%) have the highest percentage of SMBs that have done at least one daily deal. However, both cities are less than 1 percent.
• Buffalo, NY (20%) and Rochester, MN (20%) have the highest percentage of SMBs with Foursquare check-ins.

If you want to know more about the report, email the Radius team at info@radiusintel.com.

Time for your FAVE recap and mine… It’s what’s hot in tech and social.

Listen, I know you’re busy. When I first started this blog I considered making the tagline, “Putting in the man hours so you don’t have to.” I enjoy doing this research and I want to make it as easy as possible for you to always be in-the-know on all things social. If you read nothing else this week, this run down will keep your social and tech IQ above the rest. Rest easy, busy one, I’ve got your back.

Go ahead and copy and paste your favorite links and send them to your boss, co-workers, peers. They’ll remember (in case they forgot) what a rockstar you are. (Or you can always forward a copy of this post.)

1. The Huffington Post wins a Pulitzer.
2. Path Announces $30M+ Round Of Funding. That’s a lot of cheese.
3. Read It Later rebrands as “Pocket.” Oh, it’s now free. Lets its 4.5m users save articles, videos, images and more.
4. Foursquare confirms 20M users, 2 billion check-ins, on 4sqDay 2012
5. Apple reportedly launching ‘iPad Mini’ priced at $249-$299 in Q3 (Wait, isn’t this an iPhone?)
6. Social logos on TV actually work? In the U.S, about a third of TV viewers have liked a show’s or brand’s Facebook page or tweeted about what they saw on TV after seeing one of these logos.
7. Twitter mobile ads can now be targeted by platform
8. The MPAA says you can infringe copyright just by embedding a video. Eek!
9. College students can win a paid summer internship with The Huffington Post, Techcrunch, AOL Video or About.me.
10. The top 10 social media influencers, according to Klout.
11. The first reality show about Silicon Valley is in the works. Meet the cast.
12. Rackspace launches OpenStack-powered next-gen public cloud

Here’s one less headache for you… You can now change the name of your Facebook Page. Be it because your business name changed or an accidental misspelling, no need to be embarrassed any longer.

If you need your web address changed you’re still pretty much out of luck. Sorry. For now, bookmark this page for your records (https://www.facebook.com/help/contact_us.php?id=262629790471076).

It’s time to celebrate. In the past 30 days there have been quite a few major tech milestones. Here are the ones I think warrant a little extra attention.

So many social networks and tech companies, so little time. Here goes:

1. The iOS app Clear sells 350,000 copies in 9 days
2. Skype hits major milestone as 32 million people sign on at once
3. Facebook sends 60 million monthly visitors to 3rd party mobile apps. Wowzer! I’ll take some of that link love.
4. Twitter hits 500 million registered users, according to Twopcharts
5. Apple prepares to hit 25 billion App Store downloads and celebrates with $10,000 prize
6. Twitter opens ad platform to 10,000 Small Businesses
7. Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than it sold Macs in almost 30 years
8. Pinterest now has over 10.4 million registered users, 9 million monthly Facebook-connected users, and 2 million daily Facebook users
9. MySpace announces one million new users
10. Yahoo!’s C.O.R.E. creates 13 million story combos a day and gets to a million clicks
11. Reddit’s community is now 35 million strong
12. Flickr turned eight years old
13. LinkedIn hit 150 million registered users
14. The Daily amassed more than 100,000 paid subscribers on the iPad

Upcoming milestone: Oreo is about to turn 100 years old.

photo credit: Pixel Fantasy via photopin cc

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You can file this under “potential Trivial Pursuit knowledge.”

Have a FAVE you think I should feature? Email me at PRsarahevans [at] gmail [dot] com.

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The image above isn’t something I accidentally spilled pizza sauce all over. It highlights the 123 countries where iTunes Apps and iPhones are available.

Asymco shares other global images highlighting the domination of iTunes and iPhones as well. Check ‘em all out over on their site.

(h/t @techcrunch)