Category: Internet

Ads and Analytics on Twitter is a lovely platform #ads #twitter #ipo #analytics #socialmedia

I really liked the simplicity and design of the Ads Platform in Twitter.

You can visit it here- https://ads.twitter.com

Screenshot from 2013-10-07 12:20:07There are two options- either promote your tweet or promote your account

You pay only if the tweet gets an activity (retweet,favourite,reply,follow) or if you get a new follower.

That is an innovative breakthrough in social  networks marketing.

Now if only Google Plus and LinkedIn network showed more such options- I would love to promote my blog on Google Plus- but I am not sure on the options.

I also like the simple design that Twitter Ads offers. I do think an initial free $5 for some accounts should help kickstart this adaptation in a much bigger way.Screenshot from 2013-10-07 12:24:52 Screenshot from 2013-10-07 12:42:10 Screenshot from 2013-10-07 12:41:53 Screenshot from 2013-10-07 12:41:12 Screenshot from 2013-10-07 12:40:41 Screenshot from 2013-10-07 12:34:03 Screenshot from 2013-10-07 12:32:51 Screenshot from 2013-10-07 12:31:44 Screenshot from 2013-10-07 12:30:13 The recommended keywords is designed very nicely and subtly. You can click on screenshots for a better look (links have been updated)

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Once you finalize your campaign- you should see a campaign dashboard.

You can also click on the Analytics tab on the top of campaign dashboard and see your own activity, thus adding to social media analytics options. Here  it is more of a series of screenshots that is supposed to act as a mini- tutorial to make you familiar with the paltform.

Installing the book (SVMono) class in Lyx

  1. Start Lyx
  2. Your user directory can be got from looking at Help (last tab top -right)> About Lyx ( For Windows  this can be AppData – to find AppData put %appdata% at cmd line – or using windows button and R to run it – something like C:\Users\dell\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0) Screenshot 2014-07-19 07.06.20Screenshot from 2013-09-27 15:29:34
  3. Download SVMono class from SVMono
  4. Unzip all the files into the layouts folder of your User Directory (step1) Screenshot from 2013-09-27 15:32:03
  5. Go to Lyx- Tools (second last tab-top right-) Reconfigure
  6. Close Lyx
  7. Start Lyx again
  8. Lyx (Documents (third last tab -top right ) Preferences- select Sv Mono as document class Screenshot from 2013-09-27 15:34:16

References-

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UserDir

Thoughts on Soft Ware and Soft Vapour

  1. Interfaces for software, hardware,design and products evolve as technology enables better materials and more efficient consumption. The basic handicap though remains that humans do not evolve, at least not noticeable to themselves

  2. Human psychology continues to play a key role in marking success and failure of technological adoption. This includes the paradigms of loss aversion and being prone to logical fallacies in arguments put forward in advertising by fellow humans.

  3. What is easier? To create a better machine for a man. To train a man to be better at the machine. Often it is a mixture of both. Both have multiple costs and benefits to various agency players including incumbent corporations , challenger innovators, countries, regions and trade zones and environment.

  4. The practice of shipping code with an impatience of making up metrics alongside evolving industries causes dishonesty among interested stakeholders

  5. There are some things that can not be explained unless the receiver is trained to think along different paradigms than he has been used. The altered state of consciousness however is almost never credibly reversible.

  6. Information processing is the drug, not information itself.

  7. A Feedback loop is simple to construct with the results and errors flowing into inputs and next iteration processing. A Feedback loop is tough to sell to your own team , sometimes! Feedback loops are also inevitably gamed sometimes! By people of course

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Broken Ubuntu Fix libnautilus-extension1a

I kept getting this error-

The package libnautilus-extension1a needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it.

This prevented my Ubuntu 12 from installing anything new

This was the final solution-

$ sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status (you can use vi or nano instead of gedit)

Locate the corrupt package, and remove the whole block of information about it and save the file.

In my case the package libnautilus-extension1a was corrupted so I removed all info about it, and voila now the reinstall is working

Hat tip-

http://askubuntu.com/questions/146150/unable-to-fix-broken-packages-with-sudo-apt-get-install-f

 

 

 

 

Jeroen Ooms’s latest APP #rstats #appiness

Jeroen Ooms, famed inventor of Open CPU and advanced Web Apps, just released a new app.

Source-

https://public.opencpu.org/posts/knitr-markdown-opencpu-app/

A new   OpenCPU app allows you to knit and markdown in the browser. It has a unique  code editor which automatically updates the output after 3 seconds of inactivity. It uses the Ace web editor with mode-r.js (thanks to RStudio ).

the source package lives in the opencpu app repo on github. You can try it out on the public cloud server

#install the package
library(devtools)
install_github("markdownapp", "opencpu")

#open it in opencpu
library(opencpu)
opencpu$browse("/library/markdownapp/www")

The app uses the knitr R package and a few lines of javascript to call

Some tips on creating a useful blog for beginners

1) Blog post title should be self explanatory

2) Use categories and tags for better navigation

3) Use a theme which attracts not distracts

4) Simple language in blog writing works best

5) Useful blogs get more traffic than autobiographical blogs. Unless you are a celebrity.

6) People who enjoy writing blogs create better blogs

7) Writing a blog  is like jogging. Do it every day , even when its boring and painful. or Do it as much as your schedule permits.

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How to be a better writer

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Background- I wrote this as an accident while trolling on Quora. I was not confident of what I wrote- in fact I wrote it anonymous except people kept asking me why! It was pure serendipity- I wrote it less than 4 minutes and submitted without thinking. Then edited once based on feedback.

Some one clearly more smarter than me made my tips for writing into a picture http://amandaonwriting.tumblr.com/post/54265230509

and it went popular on Tumblr just like it did on Quora!

Apparently if some guy like Wil Wheaton likes your words, it can go viral!  It has 41799 notes ( reblogs+hearts) on Tumblr as of now.

http://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/54699823961/torteen-great-advice-to-writers

Words . Reposted by a member of STAR TREK:NG. I can now die a happy Geek! The Internet is a funny thing!

Thank you everyone! Now if only Google learnt to include OCR for Images as part of text search!

  1. Write 50 words . That’s  a paragraph.
  2. Write 400 words . That’s a page.
  3. Write 300 pages. That’s a manuscript.
  4. Write everyday. That’s a habit.
  5. Edit and Rewrite. That’s how you get better.
  6. Spread your writing for people to comment. That’s called feedback.
  7. Dont worry about rejection or publication. That’s a writer.
  8. When not writing, read. Read from writers better than you. Read and Perceive.

But overall, just write more to get better.

1887+ votes on Quora!! 🙂 Probably my most viewed content ever- !

61036 people  have viewed this answer!

https://www.quora.com/Writing/How-can-we-improve-our-writing-skill/answers/2048810?__snids__=94784810&__nsrc__=1

Also it got a mention here-

Ajay Ohri: The 8 Rules of Writing

Now I think I should take some of my own advice and get back to writing