Where Google Search Plus Your World Goes Wrong

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 plus Your World works. Google has done some pretty unremarkable things in the past (Hello turning off sharing in Google Reader!). The one thing they’ve always excelled at are their efforts to try and improve search results.  For example, Panda was a huge move and it removed some of the most irrelevant sites from the top search results pool (spam, splogs).[.....]

Recovering from Twitter Phishing

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!  (Hat tip to @cspenn.) Step 1: Stop clicking the links that get you hacked in the first place.  Even if you know the person, consider the message that’s accompanying the link.  If it sounds suspicious it probably is. Step 2: No seriously. Stop. Step 3: If you are still logged into your account, log out. Step 4: Clear your browser[.....]

SBBuzz: Helping Small Biz Get Answers

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 weekly on Twitter. SBBuzz not only covers the blogging, Twitter and social media efforts of small business owners, but has had some interesting guests to talk about business plans, small town small biz and cashflow. Every week, more small business owners join in the conversation to find out the answer to their questions. If you are a small business owner[.....]

Chat Catcher – Twitter mentions of your blog into your comments

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 you should also check out). It captures tweets about your blog or blog posts and copies them into your blog comments.  So the discussion on Twitter can be recorded and revisited in the comments later on.  Brings the conversation together in your space where the conversation started. Here’s how it looks: It’s super easy to install: Register your blog. We’ll[.....]

Twitter Replybot

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 optional. Try it and let him know what do you think?