Web 2.0 & Blog Tools for Small Business Promotion

Automatic Back-up of Online Bookmarks

Sloba — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:55:22 +0000

About a month ago, when I downloaded Mozilla Firefox version 3.1 (still in beta) I lost part of my Firefox bookmarks. Though I were partially aware of that possibility I was lazy enough to skip backing up process of the bookmarks, thinking that my regular hard disc back up is already doing that. I was [...]

IMDB Search Engine Added to Toolbar

Sloba — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:26:39 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday I added IMDB search engine to the web2whizzing toolbar (also called web 2.0 toolbar). It enables you to search for movies directly from your browser. Since I love watching movies I often visit IMDB (Internet movie data base) website where I can inform myself on almost any film’s plot, cast, images from [...]

So Vivid Week in the Social Media World

Sloba — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:38:37 +0000

Last week was so intense in the web 2.0 and social media world with leading companies, Facebook and Google, introduced quite significant changes. Facebook proclaimed a great update to its API that allows developers to read and post status updates, links, and notes to Facebook. Facebook now also allows third-party developers to create applications that can update [...]

Download Web 2.0 Toolbar

Sloba — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:17:42 +0000

Click Here to Download web 2.0 Toolbar Last night I finished web 2.0 toolbar building, and I do not use web 2.0 just because it is popular term. This toolbar really contain links and tools web 2.0 based. Though my first intention was to create blogging toolbar, but with addition of links to Websites which are [...]

Web 2.0 Toolbar is coming

Sloba — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:55:12 +0000

I didn’t post anything here at the blog in January since I first took a rest from all online activities and then I had a bad luck with Firefox bookmarks loosing them with activation of Uniblue speed up program Firefox 3.1 beta. Then I tried to remember few bookmarks I used often from my Firefox [...]

Social Media in 2009

Sloba — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:14:39 +0000

The battle in different fields of social media in 2008 has become severe. From users point of view there is just too much information. This post has been motivated by Sarah’s post at readwriteweb on social media predictions for 2009, and I will bring my thoughts. Additionally to SEO friendly and social-media-friendly, in 2009 it seems [...]

WordPress until 2009, and beyond

Sloba — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:36:43 +0000

It is two weeks from WordPress 2.7 release now, and since I always wait few days, letting developers to upgrade plugins, this is my first post with WordPress 2.7. I am quite impressed. I also embedded the video with new features (released with latest version) to the admin tutorial. You can even go beyond after the [...]

Monitor Website Stats with 4 simple Firefox add-ons

Sloba — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:44:18 +0000

Monitoring my website stats and visitors never was easier. With Firefox add-ons not that I’m monitoring my site stats, yet I can use these web trackers to track other website stats in my market or any other I visit. Firefox add-ons I use are alexa ranking tool, compete website visitors tool, Google Page status extension [...]

Mozilla’s Firefox vs Google’s Chrome

Sloba — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:31:11 +0000

Image via Wikipedia Do opening pages depend so much on browser’s speed? As I know web surfing mostly depends from web server and Internet connection. Yes, when you’re starting a session with Google Chrome it opens much faster than Firefox, but in further surfing there is no big difference. Of course, I f you have many [...]

Why Anchor Text Should Be Varied?

Sloba — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:59:36 +0000

Since I’ve recently published a post on few social media tools, which are helpful for link building and backlink purpose, these are additional thoughts on link building (building links to own website). If you provide a good content people will link to you. The above tools can be helpful to stay in touch with larger audience. [...]

The best Video Search Engine

Sloba — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:26:59 +0000

Which is better it depends on user’s priorities, but a month ago I found really awesome video search engine. I can audaciously say the best one. It’s fast and efficient, but above all it has some pretty unique features. Here they are. The best feature of VideoSurf I see in the ability to jump easily from [...]

Youtube’s Widescreen Video, Obama’s First Change

Sloba — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:37:30 +0000

„I knew Obama would bring change.“ This is a great joke comment at Digg on YouTube goes widescreen topic. There are 3402 diggs for this story after 5 days( YuTube brought widescreen feature at Tuesday). People are enthralled with this widescreen change at Digg. Opposite to that, at YouTube’s blog users are not so delighted. [...]

Do You Make Link Building Mistakes?

Sloba — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:51:03 +0000

As a blogger and website owner you want to attract links to your website, but the key is not just to attract links… we need to attract good links. The best links are that come from related websites which are similar and related content provider but not the same type of material or service. A [...]

Who is linking to you?

Sloba — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:41:01 +0000

Have you ever noticed two publishers or bloggers start arguing and the one of them never heard about the other before? The first one noticed when the second mentioned him and reciprocates back. If you’re not sure how to monitor the web about the links to you ( incoming links ) here’s a clue. I noticed [...]

Obama vs Mccain in Social Marketing

Sloba — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:14:20 +0000

What was the main factor in American election’s final score? Was is it a race, chose of vice presidents, burden of previous Republican administration, elan of younger candidate… but what about social media marketing? Have you seen all the posts in blogosphere or on Digg? All other factors were important, but social marketing made the big [...]

Web 2.0 Tool for Text Highlighting

Sloba — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:38:57 +0000

Recently I have written a lot about web 2.0 traffic and tools that can help in traffic accumulation, but now something completely different related to web page and text highlighting. It’s again great web 2.0 tool. Actually it works as Mozilla Firefox extension and this web 2.0 tool is Wired-Marker. Wired-Marker is a highlighter that you [...]

Hologram Transmit on TV

Sloba — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:48:11 +0000

Unbelievable hologram presentation for the first time on television. Jessica Yellin beamed to the CNN studio. Obviously star wars is galloping into our lives. It happened half an hour ago. I was watching CNN, looking what are the stats at American Election and it just happened. I’ve even grabbed my mobile and recorded a part. I [...]

New Web 2.0 Traffic Guide

Sloba — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:44:26 +0000

Serbia and Montenegro (Press Release) October 30, 2008 — Web2whizzing, website with blogging and social media tips, today announced its simple to follow social media marketing guide (social media optimization). If you have tried to catch up with social media trend you may run into distraction and interruption…info overload…paralysis of analysis…disconnected information…Yes it can be so [...]

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of Business Social Networking

Sloba — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:21:21 +0000

Business owners in the offline market know the value of networking. There are a lot of ways locally, nationally and worldwide for meeting new people who share similar business interests and benefiting from these contacts. With Internet and all social networking trend the value of networking only increases. It’s easier to reach more [...]

How to Cross Post to Large Number of Social Websites?

Sloba — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:18:10 +0000

Very good web 2.0 tool which can cross post your messages to large number of different social websites is Ping.fm. Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap. With just one click post to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and many others. There are different micro-blogging, blogging, bookmarking and social network platforms [...]

Syndicate Posts All Over the Internet

Sloba — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:11:26 +0000

There are number of ways to upload video online, and certainly one good is with blip. With blip you not only upload the video, yet syndicate your video post with other social platforms. Automate cross posting Blip enables you to automate cross posting by checking services you want automatically to syndicate to. Other way you may leave [...]

Video Promotion Tool

Sloba — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:25:23 +0000

How do you promote your videos? Do you use YouTube, Revver or Viddler? Online video marketing is very useful nowadays when these sites receives so many visitors, but are you aware that there is a video marketing tool, wherefrom you can automatically upload your videos to about 20 video websites. It sounds like useful tool, [...]

Social Bookmarking Strategy – Automate Social Bookmarking

Sloba — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:55:34 +0000

This social bookmarking strategy is using social bookmarking tool – OnlyWire. The first thing to do is to register on all bookmark sites that are supported at OnlyWire. At the moment, there are 19 websites, Twitter is micro blogging, but those rest are bookmark directed. Social Bookmarking Strategy with OnlyWire Of course, you have to save logins [...]

How To Use Windows Movie Maker To Brand Your Videos?

Sloba — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:52:29 +0000

This video tutorial will show you how to brand video using Windows Movie Maker (the video editor program you should already have on your computer. If you’re not aware that you have this editor program, just use the search tool on your computer and type “Windows Movie Maker”). Branded videos you can upload to video sharing [...]

Must Have SEO WordPress plugin

Sloba — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:11:50 +0000

I had problems using WordPress SEO Master plugin getting some error message, but recently plugin developer have made it updated for WordPress 2.6.2. Since I had the error I needed to deactivate, but now I am able to use it in full strength adding more search engine optimization to my WordPress blog. The plugin will let [...]

Top 30 Social News Websites

Sloba — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:50:56 +0000

Though many people do not see difference on the beginning, social news sites are a little bit different from bookmarking websites. As the name is saying the focus should be on news, so you can submit or vote for the particular news. Regard to that, when submitting a site to social news websites be sure that [...]

Google Chrome Impressions

Sloba — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:33:55 +0000

Using and testing Google Chrome for a week now, I can confirm it’s really fast. Google Chrome is opening sites much faster especially Websites that I have already visited. 1-2 seconds and kaboom, the whole page is opened. Though blogs (like mine as well) need a little bit more time, probably because of all plugins [...]

World Internet usage statistics

Sloba — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:39:57 +0000

It is interesting to see Internet usage statistics, especially couple of things with good trend and couple still very lazy. Unfortunately in Africa only 5% of people use Internet and in Europe countries like Serbia and Albania only with 15% and 13% users respectively. But also there are certainly very good trends like The Netherlands – [...]

Top 50 Social Bookmarking Websites

Sloba — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:24:29 +0000

What’s better indicator of the value of an online site than a group of people who have assembled into a community and suggested their chaps that they really should “check out” a particular Web site? Here is a list of top 50 social bookmark websites, places where people share their links with purpose to recommend one [...]

Yahoo Buzz

Sloba — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:56:02 +0000

I have a limited access to Internet these days, just a quick update on yahoo buzz. Until recently it wasn’t open for all publishers, but 3-4 days ago I’ve been notified about public lunch of yahoo buzz. So it is open for all publishers now. It is similar to bookmarking services, with difference that every story [...]

Get Rid of Misspellings Once and For All

Sloba — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:50:02 +0000

Image via Wikipedia For people who have found my web 2.0 tools section as interesting, here is another cool web 2.0 tool. It’s spell checker program, great writing resource. Actually it is online tool, so no need for downloading. All you have to do is to paste the text into the box and this web [...]

Advanced WordPress Video Tutorials

Sloba — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:02:33 +0000

(PressMethod) – web2whizzing, dynamic and influential blog and web 2.0 guide website has added a new WordPress tips section to the site (Advanced WordPress Tutorials) so visitors can discover how to use this highly popular software more effectively. WordPress is a free, open source, customized software that got available in 2003. Since then, it has become [...]

WordPress CMS – Video Guide

Sloba — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:09:51 +0000

This is the 4th video of Advanced WordPress Video Tutorials. This video tutorial is showing how to create content management system with WordPress platform. If you would like to have static home page at the same time moving blog page to www.yoursite/blog, after this video guide you will know that. You may also want to download My [...]

Modify WordPress Theme – Video Tutorial

Sloba — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:39:38 +0000

This is the 3rd video of Advanced WordPress Video Tutorials. This video tutorial is showing how to work with some WordPress theme codes, that is how to add autoresponder code to the blog sidebar, how to put banner in the single post and similar things. Create a successful blog Bookmark and share with friends this page: