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Tonight, 7/29/08, at 7 PM EST Rick Butts is conducting a live interview with @CoachDeb, author of the new Twitter Handbook.

This is a chance to get for free what other people will have to pay for. The call will be recorded but only available to members of Twitter Squeeze.

If you don’t know what Twitter Squeeze is visit my Squidoo lens about it:

squidoo.com/twittersqueeze

@CoachDeb is great to listen to  and always shares valuable information so reserve a place and have fun.

Tags: twittersqueeze, coachdeb, rickbutts, twitterr

There’s been huge activity in the social media circles about the new search engine Cuil.

Today it hit the mainstream and topped Google Hottrends. Not only did Cuil go to the top but so did the name of one of its creators, Anna Patterson, and several terms, like ciul, cuil search, cuil.com, kuil and www.cuil.com, made the top 100.

Note to owner of ciul: PAY ATTENTION! your site name is rocking with traffic and you’re doing nothing.

So the question is, can the two ex-Google employees that create Cuil and positioned it as the biggest and best search engine on the planet make it cool?

Right now it looks like not. Cold, ice cold, but the reasons are too much to discuss in a micro-blog post.

I will say this, though, slow, super slow, and incomplete, I’m talking huge holes.

So check out my findings on Squidoo Cuil Search Engine to see where it is and follow where it goes.

Tags: cuil, newsearch engine, anna patterson, cuil search engine

Ok, I am convinced now, Twitter has some serious juice for getting a message out. And the juice gets squeezed from two directions.

Your reputation on Twitter can drive traffic on your behalf.

Congratulations Donna Fox!

Yesterday @DonnaFox was able to get more than 70 tweeps to vote for her on my Squidoo lens which tracks the best business building blog posts from Internet marketers on a daily basis.

She wasn’t on the list, now she is, and at #1. So Twitter love does have some pull. But it’s just the start.

Google Loves Individual Tweets

If you go to Google and type in, twitter squeeze, no quotes, you’ll find the post in spot #1 is a tweet.

Yup, an individual tweet that is newer, and less informative, than the twittersqueeze.com itself.

And this isn’t an isolated case.

Now here’s something to think about long term: your profile page gets page rank, big time.

Look at @MariSmith, she’s a PR5. That’s huge, and everything she Tweets gets extra weight on Google.

Now to start seeing how long the listing lasts :P.

Here’s a pick of the search result in case it has changed:

Tags: twitter, google, pagerank, pr

I am REALLY trying to keep things on my blog positive, making my negative statements through omission. But I’ve just had a revelation about a feeling I’ve had for oh so long and need to get it off my chest.

My vision cleared when I came across a promotion today (here it is in a tweet no way I’m linking out from here) offering to package every blog post for automatic delivery to Twitter.

It’s like mass produced dung flinging trebuchets pre-loaded and precisely aimed at this nice community.

And I realized why I’ve viewed so many big name marketers with disdain.

They think I’m a Hoover and my only job is to indiscriminately suck up every piece of cr*p they launch in my direction. Or more on metaphor, a baby bird with mouth wide ready to accept regurgitated anything directly down my throat.

Don’t they get that blatant promotion and cr*p offers just don’t fly in this environment? And even if they have some value it will turn to cr&p if they lob every post they make towards us.

Kind of reminds me of IBM at the beginning of the micro-computer revolution. Old school thinking that just didn’t get it.

Oh yeah, I forgot, the big name marketers don’t care about us, we’re no their target market. As long as they convince their wool covered minions that it works they get the spoils.

But still, we end up with the excrement. And then get ridiculed in forums to boot.

OK, now I promise to hold my tongue for at least another week.

Tags: badmarketing, guru scum, social media faux paux

Would you like to Digg! a page with only one click? Here’s the “code”. I know this works in Firefox & Flock.

At any page drag the url favicon to the favorites tool bar.

Right click the newly created favorite item and select properties.

Change the name, I use DiggIt, it’s short so it doesn’t take up much space on the toolbar.

Past the code below into the address box. I have broken it into several lines so you can read it, but it needs to be all 1 line with no spaces:

javascript:location.href=’http://digg.com/submit?phase=3&
url=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+’
&title=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title)

You probably can’t read the line below but it is the entire code for copy and paste:

If you are logged in this will begin the Digg! process automatically, otherwise you will go to the log in page.

A quick screen capture video of this process will follow shortly.

Tags: digg, favoritestoolbar, one click digg, digg shortcut