Remember the days of searching places like Yahoo to find the best results that fit?  I can remember painfully clicking link after link to find the relevant search results on my search topic.  Me and the back button?  We considered getting engaged. I came across a Search Engine Land experiment on how the new Google Search... Read More →

If you have gotten your Twitter account hacked because you’ve clicked on a phishing scam link, here’s how to get it cleaned up.  Otherwise you might find yourself on lists you don’t want to be on. Edited to add: Also, periodically check your sent tweets to see what your account has been doing without you!... Read More →

Disclosure: I’m co-founder of sbbuzz with Pamela O’Hara and Michelle Riggen-Ransom of BatchBlue Software. A few months ago, small business owner Whitney (@wald12) came to Michelle and Pam for advice on how to get started with technology and social media for her business. Brilliantly inspired by #journchat, they created a chat for small business owners... Read More →

Want the tweets about your blog posts to be posted to the blog comments so the discussion is all in one place? I just saw Chat Catcher (the coolest thing) in action over on Dave Fleet’s blog this morning and immediately tweeted and added it to chelpixie.com.  He apparently found it via Shannon Whitley (whom... Read More →

Christopher Penn has come up with a brilliant script, Twitter Replybot, to allow you to follow back the last 20 people who replied to you on Twitter.  You enter your credentials, and fill in the captcha, press send and done.The service is free and he does ask for you to sign up for his newsletter, but it’s... Read More →

To those of you I keep going on about Twitter (and trying to get you sucked in), here’s a video that explains it simply. Thanks to @leelefever and @sachilefever. Check out other Common Craft videos at http://www.commoncraft.com/! Read More →

A few weeks ago, @chrisbrogan, @DYKC, and @spin wrote a collaborative blog post on friending in social networking spaces and how they handle it. I used to take a Chris Brogan approach to my friend adds, especially on Twitter. Then the issues started. As of this writing, I have 764 followers. I tried following all... Read More →

I was reading Mitch Joel‘s post on Twitter as “The Social Pulse of Life” and I started to comment but it kept getting longer and longer. I decided that continuing my thoughts over here would be a good idea. I’m not surprised that Second Life or other virtual communities weren’t mentioned on his “comments based”... Read More →

Just a little update before I attempt to remind myself to blog daily….new habits are a pain in the tush until they are habits. On Going Broke, I left a voicemail for Daph and Tam this week and Daph dead panned the answer to my question, Does that boot make Tam’s ass look fat? Apparently... Read More →