Sales, Social and Tech

Google Post, which was previously available for the US Elections in 2016, is now available for all small business who have registered their business with Google My Business. Google Post allow you to put small snippets about a promotion, event, or show case new products,etc. Take my company's Google My Business layout above. If you Google "NetGain Systems", you will see the NetGain Systems Pte Lte Google Business Profile. Below the profile is the Google Post of our free IT monitoring software. According to Search Engine Land , Google says this give businesses the ability to: Share daily specials or current promotions that encourage new and existing customers to take advantage of your offers. Promote events and tell customers about upcoming happenings at your location. Showcase your top products and highlight new arrivals. Choose one of the available options to connect with your customers directly from your Google listing: give them a one-click path to make a...

Have you seen the new Notes on Facebook? Notes was part of Facebook to provide for longer updates, however, the old Facebook Notes was kind of boring and stale. Say goodbye to the old Facebook Notes The new Facebook Notes now allows you to add a cover photo, similar to Medium,  and even allows you to select Bold, Italics, Mono, and even add links just be simply highlighting the words and the option appears above the words. In comparison, the old Facebook Notes required you to know a little html that you have to enter before and after the text. So far, the new Facebook Notes only allows you to add photos, but hopefully, it could allow adding of videos and even let users put HTML for more advance users. Maybe Facebook should even allow users to add advertising in the post and earn from it, something similar to Google’s Adsense program. The new Facebook Notes will give the various online blogging publishers, eg Medium, Blogger, a run for the money. Google’s Blog...

Looks like Google.com.sg has gone voting. I wonder who did L vote for?

Most Gmail users in Asia would have woken up to a new Gmail inbox with tabs that filter your emails accordingly. You can get your old Gmail inbox back into two simple steps. Step 1 - Click the gear box on the top right hand corner and select "Configure inbox". Step 2 - Uncheck the boxes "social" and "promotions". Click save. Viola. Your tabs are going. Say a big welcome back to your old Gmail inbox.

Snapseed, the iPad app of the 2011, is now on Android Play. Plus it is free. It is available here . Wrote PC World , Though it doesn't have quite the stunning interface of Apple's iPhoto for iOS and some of the mind-blowing content-aware tricks of Adobe Photoshop Touch, Snapseed remains one of the most powerful image editors available for tablets. Best of all? It's now free.

Facebook is about connecting to your friends. Google's counter strategy for Google+ is that your friends can give you better search results. Will this social network strategy work?

If your job requires you to access your Gmail on different computers, or you are travelling and logging into a public terminal, you might to consider getting the 2 steps verification from Google. I have found the 2 steps verification extremely useful in my line of work and feel safer accessing Gmail from different PCs. Here's a video on how to get this security feature from Google.

Since working with Aneace Haddad at Taggo, I have inculcated the three questions which Aneace has kept asking himself as an entrepreneur. Yes, we do throw ideas back and forth, but when the idea is on paper, we ask ourselves “So What, Who Cares and Why Me?" to the ideas. The next step is to ask if the feature or idea will be seen as a painkiller, vitamin or cocaine. No, we are not selling drugs, but rather a description to how the idea will be seen by potential client. Thus, a little exercise I did by putting the Google Chrome OS in the limelight and to see if the new OS will pass the test. So What? The Google Chrome OS came about in the era when the netbook was hot. The netbook started from the ideas of the One Laptop Per Child and Asus decided to make a low end commercially available version with a Linux OS. As we know the Linux OS wasn’t that well received so Asus moved to Windows XP Home. Windows Vista would have made netbooks a slow moving brick. So netbooks jumped ...