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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.
Firstly, for Non-Twitter Users: I resisted it at first but now I find that I am a raving fan of Twitter. If you are not using Twitter yet, take my advice and just do it. Even if you don’t plan to Twitter much yet, just register to make sure you grab a user name that’s [...]
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YouTube Embed Code Options – Autoplay On or Off
Posted on 26. Sep, 2008 by Brian Wong.
The Ultimate Online Video Solution – Easy Video Player 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 [...]
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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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Massive List of Social Networking Sites
Posted on 09. Apr, 2008 by Brian Wong.
Web 2.0 marketing is here to stay and one of the best ways to get targeted free traffic to your site is through social networking sites. Here are 5 ways to promote or drive traffic to your sites with social networking: Create groups around your niche market and keyword and let people find you Search [...]
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Massive List of Video Sharing Websites!
Posted on 18. Mar, 2008 by Brian Wong.
Here’s a Massive List of Over 200 Video Sharing Sites It’s hard to ignore the power of video when you market online. With more and more free video sharing services popping up each day, I decided to compile a list of the ones I like here. One of my favorite sites to use is www.veoh.com [...]
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YouTube Traffic Strategy Update
Posted on 29. Feb, 2008 by Brian Wong.
Some of you from my previous blog will remember that I posted a video on YouTube as an experiment. Since my switch to WordPress some of you may not have access to the previous post. In any case, here is what I did. I noticed that the all the most viewed videos on Youtube had [...]
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Web 2.0 Badges – Useful collection of stylish web 2.0 badges and badge generator
Posted on 27. Feb, 2008 by Brian Wong.
For someone with no graphic design skills like me, creating a button like the one you see on the left would take some substantial effort. This site has a simple and easy button/ badge generator. All you need to do is select the design and type in the text and your badge will be ready [...]
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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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