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[Vid] Facebook Adds Twitter-Like Features to Status Updates
Posted on 22. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.
Facebook recently added a new feature to allow users to reference friends or Facebook pages in their status updates. Here’s a 2-minute video tutorial of how to make use of this new feature: Some notes, the “@” feature only works to reference friends in your Friend list and Facebook pages that you are a fan [...]
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Twitter Tip: How To Promote Your Company, Product or Brand Professionally on Twitter
Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.
I love me some Twitter. But alas, there are many newbies who are using Twitter the wrong way to promote “stuff”. These users actually lower the value to all other Twitter users by being of low value and generally being a nuisance by adding irrelevant “noise” to the Twitter feed. Eventually, these accounts will be [...]
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How To Use the Apture WordPress Plugin!
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.
Have you heard about the new Web 2.0 service/ plugin called Apture? I am really impressed with it and after this, you will too. Please see this video tutorial below to learn how this page was created. Mouse over the links below to see all the other cool features Apture can add to your blog. [...]
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How To Use Twitter Lists
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Brian Wong.
I logged in to my Twitter account today discovered a new item next to my “following” and “follower” count. It says “Listed”. I was naturally intrigued and soon discovered that its a funky new way that Twitter introduced for us to organize our Twitter feeds. It’s really timely as I was beginning to find my [...]
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Is the World Ready for Google Wave?
Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Brian Wong.
My friend Jon Yeo just sent me a Google Wave invite and I started experimenting with it. Here’s a video explaining how Google Wave works: I must say that the project has very exciting potential. However, in practice, I have found the user interface quite a challenge. Its not as intuitive as other Web 2.0 [...]
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How to Create Pre-Written “ReTweets” for Twitter
Posted on 13. Mar, 2009 by Brian Wong.
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a pre-written “Retweet” link or button. What this means is that with a click of a button, the browser will go to your Twitter account and create a new Tweet with your pre-written message in it. Now, I’m having a hard time explaining this [...]
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Twitter Crash Course: How to “Retweet” Like a Pro
Posted on 18. Feb, 2009 by Brian Wong.
What is a “retweet”or “retweeting”? Have you ever received an interesting email and forwarded it to your friends? You know, like a funny joke or a breaking news item that you thought would be of interest to your friends so you hit the “forward” button on your email client to pass that message on. That’s [...]
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Twitter – How To Auto-Reply And Auto Follow
Posted on 07. Oct, 2008 by Brian Wong.
IMPORTANT UPDATE : The post below was written in 2008. As many of you will soon notice, the SocialOomph website is no longer a free service. I have yet to find a free service to fill the gap for auto-replies as originally outlined in this post. However, my Twitter auto replies are now 100% handled [...]
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YouTube Embed Code Options – Autoplay On or Off
Posted on 26. Sep, 2008 by Brian Wong.
Here are some problems I face when embedding YouTube videos on my website. First, the user has to click on the “play” button for the video to play. People who are new to online video might not even know to how to do that. Second, at the end of the video, the “related videos” pop [...]
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How To Allow Twitter to Update Your FaceBook Status
Posted on 04. Aug, 2008 by Brian Wong.
If you use Facebook and Twitter, you’ll probably want your Facebook status to be automatically updated every time you post an entry to Twitter. This is a good idea because there are many more third-pary applications to update your Twitter status. This makes it extremely convenient to use. For example you could use “Twhirl” on [...]
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My Twitter Drive
Posted on 28. Jul, 2008 by Brian Wong.
I am on a campaign to get all my friends on Twitter and to add as many friends as possible to my Twitter list. Add me to your list here: www.twitter.com/brianwong When I first came to know about Twitter, I thought “who would want to use this?”. I mean it only allowed you to post [...]
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The Future “New Media” – My Rant
Posted on 28. Jul, 2008 by Brian Wong.
I had lunch with a really good friend yesterday who is also in the Internet industry and we talked a lot of about the future of the “new media”. Despite us both being very involved in the Internet and with Web 2.0 projects we agree that we are not even scratching the surface of what [...]
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Massive List of Social Video Sharing Sites
Posted on 12. Apr, 2008 by Brian Wong.
Here are 5 ways to promote or drive traffic to your sites with social video sharing websites: First step is to create a video that is relevant to your target market group. ... You can either use a WebCam and record a video directly from YouTube's site or use free software like CamStudio to record your desktop computer screen while you talk over the recording. ... You can even try and rank higher by encouraging video comments and other awards/ ranking systems given by the video sharing service. (e.g. most viewed, most commented, most favorited, most linked..etc) Here's a massive list of social video sharing sites ranked by Alexa Ranking and includes Google Page Rank information: [Table=4]
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Massive List of Social Bookmarking Sites
Posted on 12. Apr, 2008 by Brian Wong.
Here are 5 ways to promote or drive traffic to your sites with social bookmarking websites: First step is to create a bookmark with your affiliate link. ... So do the math, creating 50 bookmarks on the sites below could get you 500 to 5,000 links/ visitors and beyond for free! ... Other people using the bookmarking site will search for content based on tags, titles and description Encourage others to bookmark your link.
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About Brian Wong
Brian Wong is a serial entrepreneur, life explorer and father of two. Over the last ten years, he has founded successful businesses in several areas including the health and wellness industry, in property investment and in online information marketing.
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