Sanga sledging Pollock: Sledging in Gentleman style 🙂
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As an aside, Sanga is a lawyer by education.. You can expect even his sledging to be politically correct! 🙂
Tags: Cricket
Sanga sledging Pollock: Sledging in Gentleman style 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/w
As an aside, Sanga is a lawyer by education.. You can expect even his sledging to be politically correct! 🙂
Tags: Cricket
Try Duolingo (language tool). You can use it over web, but I feel that the best way is to use the iPhone app.
Definitely unusual, and although it may be too early for me to label it effective (It's just my third day of learning Spanish using DuoLingo iPhone app; I am loving it so far.), based on the reviews and articles that I have read about this app, this appears to be quite effective. In fact, a recent study found this to be more effective than other traditional methods:
Study: Learning Spanish With Duolingo Can Be More Effective Than College Classes Or Rosetta Stone | TechCrunch
Try it! Certainly, a better use of your free time than Draw Something or Angry Birds (game)
The concept is called ReTargeting.
Here is a video from AdRoll that can serve as an introduction to this concept:
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The concept is not unique to Jabong. In fact, most eCommerce websites these days would deploy some form of retargeting mechanism, either built inhouse, or by using a third party tools like Adroll.
And indeed, as seen in screenshot[1] below, Jabong is using Adroll for this purpose.
[1] The results are from a browser extension called Ghostery. If the website is using a popular third party tool for web-analytics, tag-management, ad-serving, or A/B testing, Ghostery will detect it.
Tags: Ghostery, Remarketing
There may be a more elegant tool, but you may want to try the good old Site-search on Google..
Syntax: site: <URL of the FB Page> <Search Keyword>
Below is a screenshot of the query that you are interested in:
Tags: Facebook
A recent report from eMarketer suggests that number is about 33 Million
Details here: http://www.emarketer.com/
Personally, I would however recommend you to look at other sources too. eMarketer is usually a reliable source, but I am not fully sure of this study, especially because Twitter is banned in China, and the study lists China as the leading country in number of Active Twitter users. Some users may be accessing using proxy-services, but still this does not explain the extremely high usage.
Tags: Twitter
I agree with this! When it comes to friendship, I have always been a "Quality over Quantity" guy. I have always had a few very close friends, and a lot of acquaintances, and even a guy like me has 800+ friends on Facebook! And that's not a lot: the last I checked, 94 of my friends have 1000 or more friends!
1000 friends! Is it possible for someone to have 1000 real friends! Studies suggest that there is actually a limit to the number of social relationships one can maintain, and for most people, the number is somewhere between 100 and 230 (150 is the commonly used number) This is called Dunbar's number named after British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who did some research on this topic. (Read more about this here: Dunbar's number)
But Dunbar's analysis is from pre-social media days. (His article was first published in 1992) Is it possible that with the advent of social media, the mankind has suddenly become more "social"? Apparently not! Read about this guy's attempts to take on Dunbar, or may be try your own experiment. Either way, I am sure you will come up with similar results!
Dunbar's Number Kicked My Ass in Facebook Friends Experiment | Underwire | Wired.com
The cartoon strip below is profound and funny at the same time, and sums up everything I have said above.
Tags: Facebook, Social Media
Amit is one of the most common Indian names in my generation, thanks to immense popularity of Amitabh Bachchan, who also goes by Amit (the shortened version of his name). Hence, in my school days, I was always one of three or four Amits in the class. When I came to the US in 2009, I thought this would end, but instead, I started meeting Amit Bhatnagars too, in addition to lots of just Amits!
This has led to many memorable incidents: some amusing, and some irritating and frustrating. I am listing a few here in no particular order:
Some incidents around just first common name:
I had shared these experiences (and some more) on my blog some time ago: Plight of being an “Amit”
Tags: Amit Bhatnagar Yes, emails, ID, US
Praveen Reddy Vaka and Anon-User have already demonstrated two mathematically correct ways of handling this. I will discuss a slightly less accurate, but a reasonably practical and relatively easy approach using Excel:
A screenshot of my excel solution for this is included below:
Tags: Mathematical puzzles
Someone from Quora can confirm this, but based on what I have observed, I don't think they are using any third party tool for A/B testing.
I use a tool called Ghostery (browser extension) for this purpose. If the website is using any of the popular third party platforms for web-analytics, tag-management, ad-serving, or A/B testing, Ghostery will be able to detect those. Of course, if you are doing this in-house, it won't detect anything.
This is what Ghostery detected for Quora:
So, it does not appear that they are using any of the popular third party tools.
Ghostery does detect most third party A/B testing tools, if present:
Optimizely – Analysis by Ghostery
Adobe Digital Marketing (Omniture)
Visual Website Optimiser (Wingify)
Tags: A/B Testing, Ghostery, Quora
I am not aware of any Quora feature that allows you to do this, but I have the RSS feed of my answers synced to my blog (http://amitbhatnagar.com
Here is a sequence of steps that you can follow, if you have a WordPress blog (I am sure there are options available for other platform, but I have tried only WP)
This mechanism will help you have back up of your Quora answers on your personal blog. This may be bad SEO for your blog because of duplicate content. So, you may want to have a different sub-domain for this purpose, something like quora.yourdomain.com.
BTW, since no step above needs your Quora credentials, technically, you can repeat the above steps to get the backup for contributions of any author. You may, of course, want to request the author's approval before posting his/her contributions to your blog.
Tags: Quora
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