In the Facebook Security presentations I have made, a few things have always come up as concerns:

How do I keep my account from getting hacked?
I don’t want people to tag me in photos.
I want to protect my Facebook friends, how do I do this?
How do I control who can see my photos?
My family does not want to see my work-related posts, I don’t want my coworkers to see my  personal posts. How do I separate them?

Over the next few weeks I will cover these issues, and others brought up by readers. Post suggested topics and any questions in the comments. For Part II I’ll cover how to separate work and personal posts.

PostPost lets you search your Twitter feed for users, hashtags, etc. pretty much anything. From the PostPost Twitter bio: “Strip away the noise on Twitter with PostPost, the Twitter strip search tool.” It is a simple tool to use as well. Go to PostPost.com, log in using your Twitter login, approve the app’s use of your account, and you’re all set to search.

Give PostPost a try at PostPost.com. Post your thoughts in the comments below.

Looking back over the past 2 Holiday seasons, there were 2 spikes in mobile searches for retail terms, one was Black Friday, the other the week before Christmas. In the graph below, you can see that this pattern repeat each of the past 2 years. Google makes the assumption that these searches were conducted by shoppers who missed free shipping deadlines, then moved to in-store shopping.

Courtesy of Google

Google also conducted a survey of Smartphone and Tablet users. 33% of these mobile device users intend to begin their shopping before Thanksgiving this year.

In a Search Engine Land post in February, 2011, Google reported that 79% of its top advertisers are not mobile ready. This means no mobile optimized site. It is doubtful that small local businesses even approach the Google top advertiser numbers, despite the fact that the advertiser mobile adoption data is 7 months old.

What does it all mean? There is  a huge, rapidly-growing market of mobile-ready consumers out there. Businesses who want to tap into that market must be where the consumers are. Mobile-readiness is a requirement for marketing success today.

As a digital marketer, I often want to see what the real world results are for a Google search. Here is a quick way to temporarily, and at-will, turn off the personalized results. Because other folks may be getting personalized results, you cannot REALLY see exactly what they will. But, with this system, you can remove your personalization.

After you do a search, add the following to the search query URL – “&pws=0″. If you do not want to add the parameter manually, drag this link, Turn off Google personalization, to your bookmarks toolbar.  After you do a search, click on the bookmark. The bookmarklet is courtesy of the Google System Blog.

I like to keep my folders clean and organized the way I want. I use Adam Pash’s (Lifehacker) Belvedere to keep my downloads folder emptied. I had a little difficulty finding how to make Outlook put downloaded attachments where I want. It is possible, but requires a registry edit. In this post, I’ll explain how to make that edit.

WARNING: Changing your registry is dangerous. Simple mistakes can render your system inoperable. Be very cautious to follow the instructions below in perfect detail!

To edit your registry(again, do not take this edit lightly!), go to ‘Start’ and click on ‘Run…”. Type ‘regedit’ and click ‘OK”. In the left panel look for the key name ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER’ and expand it. Drill down in the folder structure as follows:
Software=>Microsoft=>Office=>11.0=>Outlook=>Options=>Mail
Create a new entry by going to (in the menu) Edit=>New=>String Value
Name your new entry “DefaultPath”. After your entry is created and named, double-click on it and enter the FULL path to the location of the folder you want to use for downloads. Your change is automatically saved when you close Regedit.

That’s it! Your change will take effect the next time you start Outlook.

Roger Creasy, Internet Genius

Next up: Navigation.

My logo needs a little work, too. I will see what I can do.

I am working on a redesign of my site. I hope to have most of it complete within the next few days. Feel free to watch the progress and send me feedback through the comments.

Thanks!