20+ Tools to Create Your Own Infographics
http://goo.gl/VGOEq #doqc #opendata #do101
/v @DO101Mtl @thomfound

... Big Data, cloud computing and mobile are all intimately connected to open source.  Hence, it's not surprising that of the top-10 tech skills in demand on Indeed.com, listed in order of how fast these keywords are growing in online job postings, six of them are explicitly open source :

1.HTML5
2.MongoDB
3.iOS
4.Android
5.Mobile app
6. Puppet
7. Hadoop
8. JQuery
9. PaaS
10. Social Media

http://goo.gl/2e0rO

#Git  for  #Functional  programmers
#functionalprogramming  for #GitUsers  

Ice Cream Sandwich is the current version of Android (version I). #ICS #K4Kouign
Next version will start with a K.
+Eric Schmidt is asking for suggestions.
+Mathias Herberts just started a proposal to lobby for Kouign-Amann
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kouign-amann
Support this proposal by retweeting.

Currently reading free ebook on #GraphDataBases


http://graphdatabases.com/


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The NOSQL Phenomenon
3. Graphs and Connected Data
4. Working with Graph Data
5. Graph Databases
6. Working with a Graph Database
7. Graph Data in the Real World
8. Predictive Analysis with Graph Theory

Great selection of data visualization tools: say goodbye to bar charts!

/v +Pau Giner

Move a pile of obsolete language manuals to the incinerator

#GoLang presentation by +Rob Pike

Why #Concurrency is not #Parallelism

http://goo.gl/IIkp6

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Amazing letters game
 /via @Know: This is mind blowing.

#Programming  

The "Orange Algorithm" they say ...

http://goo.gl/kjunb

#OpenAccess   #ScientificPublishing  

#ProgrammingParadigms  
/v +Paul Klint 

#Samsung & #SamsungMobile look really strange:
Twitting announcements for Galaxy from an iPhone!

/v @iLaurent +Tugdual Grall

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Slides for "Go at Google"
+Rob Pike's keynote at SPLASH #Tucson  #Splash12
#GoLang  

Multiple Inheritance?

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BRILLIANT and AT LAST : )

/v +Debasish Ghosh @debasishg
An open source book on Algorithmic Graph Theory
http://goo.gl/5yd6s


Contents:

Introduction to Graph Theory
Graphs and digraphs
Subgraphs and other graph types
Representing graphs as matrices
Isomorphic graphs
New graphs from old
Common applications
Application: finite automata
Graph Algorithms
Representing graphs in a computer
Graph searching
Weights and distances
Dijkstra's algorithm
Bellman-Ford algorithm
Floyd-Roy-Warshall algorithm
Johnson's algorithm
Trees and Forests
Definitions and examples
Properties of trees
Minimum spanning trees
Binary trees
Huffman codes
Tree traversals
Tree Data Structures
Priority queues
Binary heaps
Binomial heaps
Binary search trees
AVL trees
Distance and Connectivity
Paths and distance
Vertex and edge connectivity
Ford-Fulkerson theorem
Menger’s Theorem
Whitney’s Theorem
Centrality of a vertex
Network reliability
Optimal Graph Traversals
Eulerian graphs
Hamiltonian graphs
The Chinese Postman Problem
The Traveling Salesman Problem
Planar Graphs
Planarity and Euler's Formula
Kuratowski's Theorem
Planarity algorithms
Graph Coloring
Vertex coloring
Edge coloring
Applications of graph coloring
Network Flows
Flows and cuts
Ford and Fulkerson's theorem
Edmonds and Karp's algorithm
Goldberg and Tarjan's algorithm
Random Graphs
Network statistics
Binomial random graph model
Erdos-Renyi model
Small-world networks
Scale-free networks
Graph Problems and Their LP Formulations
Maximum average degree
Traveling Salesman Problem
Edge-disjoint spanning trees
Steiner tree
Linear arboricity
Acyclic edge coloring
H-minor

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If this was a program, rather than just gravity, it would be way less cool.
via +Jake Gross

#DataViz  

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Nice animated GIF /v +Dirk Deridder 

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How a key works.  That's the best use of an animated GIF that I have ever seen. Now I'm off to my lock-picking class.

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Apparently there is some consensus on GWT is dead?
No mention of GoogleTV
No much mention of ChromeBook either. It this ChromeBook still important in Google Cloud strategy?

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The last session of the Google Developer Day 2011 Berlin just ended. As a brief summary these are the key impressions I took from today:

Judging from the keynote, Android and Google+ are the two focus products most strongly promoted by Google at the moment. Of course, the web (with Chrome Browser and HTML5) ist still an important topic, too. The now released in earnest Google AppEngine got its fair share of promotion, too.

Google, the geeky technology company, has finally discovered the importance of good User Experience (remember stuff like the UI of AdWords?). Many of the speakers kept reiterating how crucial UX is. A nice insight by +Mike West: The time of the functionality behemoths (like MS Word) seems to be finally coming to an end with the shift to smaller applications (aka “Apps”) on mobile devices and in the web that focus on solving a small problem space really well. Providing in some cases gorgeous UIs, that are a selling point of their own. - And that users might come to expect after decades of suffering. :-)

Dart is to be watched. If this project takes flight, it will almost certainly replace GWT (see below). And things like CoffeeScript might quickly lose traction, with a neat language that effectively compiles to Javascript and has native implementations on popular browsers.

In the long run, GWT is dead: No single mention in the sessions I visited, apart from (anxious) questions by visitors of the Dart session. Google’s Dart advocate asked about Dart’s relation to GWT underlining that many former GWT developers are now working on Dart is telling, I guess.

Google (like other companies) is working hard on enabling small companies or even individuals to launch and monetize new cloud services and applications with a minimum effort (and risk). And earning their share in doing so (Google App Engine, BigQuery, Chrome Web Store, In App purchases, Google AdSense for games, etc.). In part, this is somewhat backporting the experience of the mobile app economy into the web space.

Whether it’s app or web, nowadays it has become extremely difficult to bypass Google (in contrast thinking back just 3 years, when there was no Chrome and no Android to mention).

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Perhaps we need both true innovators and vulgarisators? However we should get rid of patent brokers ASAP.

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Image is enough! In my opinion C is way more important that any Apple device.(that's using C).

What motivation do I have as a programmer(I am not saying that I am a good one) to do dope shit? Not even credits!

If you do something useful and open source everybody loves it but you still don't have money nor reputation.


If you do something useful and closed source everybody loves it but you have money and reputation.

If society is driven on non valuable values every individual follows and ...

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#UNIX #C

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Goodbye Dennis Ritchie

{ RIP( dennis_ritchie ); }

Author of C, co-author of one of the best guides to a programming language that I've ever read The C Programming Language, not to mention his work on Unix, he was hugely important to the development of modern computing.

I'll leave you with this quote from the great man:

"UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity."

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html

America's scientist surplus *

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A nice interactive web tutorial on trying and learning Git!
Very nicely executed!

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Batman equation done with the Google function plotter. Find the live demonstration here: http://goo.gl/QTzAq. All you need to do is, adjust the axis.

Thanks to +Axel Freyn for the input.

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The truth is scary...

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If your brain works normally

This is another example of an amazing illusion!!! The last sentence is so true.

If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, the dots will remain only one color, pink.

However if you stare at the black '+ ' in the center, the moving dot turns to green.
Now, concentrate on the black ' + ' in the center of the picture. After a short period, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will see only a single green dot rotating.

It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear. This should be proof enough, we don't always see what we think we see.
Reshare this to all of your friends and amaze them.

Peer review doesn't work any more. What could be the alternative?

Another interesting Guardian article :
"By and large, the problem does not arise from outright fraud, which is rare. It arises from official pressure to publish when you have nothing to say."

http://goo.gl/et1kl

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In doing this, New Zealand is essentially taking the position that existing laws provides enough protection to software as it is; patents only serve to stifle innovation because of the ever-looming threat of being sued by so-called patent troll companies.
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In line with our short discussion yesterday about quantum mechanics.

#scienceeveryday   #sciencememe  +Memetic Engineering 

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I am impressed. And in Europe we are rapidly going in the same direction.

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via +Hans-Martin Mosner #SaveTheBankers

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So there is now a patent on rectangular shaped things ;-)

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community designs ftw!

Imperative vs. Declarative Programming again

Humorous Programming Language Debate  "Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel"

Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel

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Is OOP dead?

OOP has been eliminated from the introductory CS curriculum at Carnegie-Mellon-University (CMU) in favor of an introductory course to functional programming. They say that OOP "is eliminated entirely from the introductory curriculum, because it is both anti-modular and anti-parallel by its very nature, and hence unsuitable for a modern CS curriculum". And this is but one of the many criticisms of OOP.

http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/teaching-fp-to-freshmen/

#GitHub  for beginners

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http://www.bonkersworld.net/building-software/ #cartoon

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#vim #emacs #visualstudios #learningcurves
If you find this hilarious I congratulate you

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We all perceive the world differently...

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Yet another #MVC  alternative. 

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Animated Engines. A fascinating site that shows interactively how twenty-one different engines work.

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#Nostalgia

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This has been making the rounds but I think it's great :) If you don't know the connection between these two, well, then you weren't around in the 80s :)

Seven dirty secrets of data visualisation http://www.netmagazine.com/features/seven-dirty-secrets-data-visualisation

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Tautochrone curves
Drop a ball on this curve and it'll reach the bottom in the same amount of time, no matter where you drop it.

A tautochrone is the curve for which the time taken by an object sliding without friction in uniform gravity to its lowest point is independent of its starting point. The time is equal to π times the square root of the radius over the acceleration of gravity.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautochrone #math #physics

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science:
http://goo.gl/Z97IN

/v +Lincoln Rocha

Institutions with Best Papers:

Carnegie Mellon University 19.8
Microsoft Research 19.0
University of Washington 17.3
Stanford University 17.1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 13.3
Cornell University 9.9
University of California Berkeley 9.9
University of Toronto 9.4
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8.3
IBM Research 7.9
University of British Columbia 7.8
University of Texas at Austin 7.4
University of Oxford 6.2
Georgia Institute of Technology 5.8
Weizmann Institute of Science 4.5
Yahoo! Research 4.4
McGill University 4.4
University of Maryland 4.3
AT&T Laboratories 4.1
University of California Irvine 4.0
Google 3.4
Brown University 3.3

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CREATING, USING & PROMOTING GOOGLE+ PAGES PROPERLY
(The Ultimate Tutorial - updated)

Ok, so I've seen a lot of articles about Google+ pages, but none seemed to be complete and I wanted a fast way of understanding, using and promoting Google+ pages. So I made a slideshow to help you out faster then ever with this new Google+ pages. At the bottom of the post you'll find some interesting articles that inspired me.

This is a very long post, so I recommend after you finish the parapraph to look at the slideshow first. After that you can look at 6 GOOGLE PLUS BUSINESS PAGE VIDEOS YOU NEED TO SEE https://plus.google.com/u/0/106393478695568433143/posts/M2y8H81RnnF and then you can get some deeper understanding by reading the post if you want to or if you're looking for the links in the photos. Now you can just watch the slideshow. If you like it please share it, (then continue reading) and give me some feedback on the original post: https://plus.google.com/106393478695568433143/posts/HrEJHUA6ECt


TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Things you need to know about Google+ Pages
2. How To Create a Google+ Page
3. Customizing a Google+ Page
4. Sharing as a Google+ Page
5. Promoting your Google+ Page
6. Targeting your audience with your Google+ Page
7. Using hangouts for your Google+ Page
8. Optimizing your Google+ page for SEO
9. Measuring statistics for your Google+ Page
10. Cool examples of Google+ pages.


I. THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GOOGLE+ PAGES

Pages can be made for a variety of different entities whereas profiles can only be made for people.
Businesses can have multiple pages, so your product manager, for example, could run a Google+ Page just for his or her product line, while someone else runs the corporate brand. You could also do pages for particular events, though right now, there’s no event-specific type of support
For smaller companies and brands, there is no verification process that certifies your Google+ Page as yours currently. However, when you verify your email that you added in the contact info, it will show you a small verification badge in the contact info section proving that you are the owner of that email.
Pages can’t add people to circles until the page is added first or mentioned.
Google+ Pages automatically unfollow the users that unfollowed the page.
The default privacy setting for elements on your page profile is public.
Pages have the +1 button.
Pages can’t +1 other pages, nor can they +1 stuff on the Web.
Pages can’t play games.
Pages don’t have the option to share to ‘Extended circles’.
Pages don’t receive notifications via email, text, or in the Google bar.
Pages can’t hangout on a mobile device.
Local pages have special fields that help people find the business’ physical location.

II. HOW TO CREATE A GOOGLE+ PAGE

1. Choose an Accessible Gmail Account (optional)
Set up a new gmail account to make it accessible to multiple members of your marketing team (because multiple admins and ownership transfer are not supported yet, however the Google+ team said they're working on it)

2. Click Create a page or go to https://plus.google.com/pages/create

3. Pick a categoryur business fits into. The categories are as follows:
Local Business or Place
Suitable for: hotels, restaurants, places, stores, services. Requires the primary phone number of the local business, so it can be located on Google Places.
Local businesses get special listings, and it all starts after you choose the “Local” option by entering a phone number.

Product or Brand
Suitable for: apparel, cars, electronics, financial services

Company, Institution or Organization
Suitable for: companies, institutions, organizations, non-profits

Arts, Entertainments or Sports
Suitable for: films, TV, music, books, sports, shows

Other
Suitable if your business doesn't fit into another category

4. Add Info
Next step is entering your business name and website. After this, you have to select an additional category that suits your business. These sub-categories are dependent on the main category you choose.

For example, for "product or brand" you can choose from the likes of food and drink, arts and entertainment, fashion and beauty, home and garden, etc.

You then need to select who can view your Google+ profile. The default is any Google user, or you can restrict this to 18 and older or 21 and older.

5. Tagline and Photo
You have 10 words to summarize your business in the tagline. After you've done this, you can add an image.

6. Get the Word Out
In the next step Google offers you the ability to tell your personal Google+ circles about your new business page. However, you will not do this right now.

Customize your page even further and start sharing a few updates before you begin telling the world about it. Promoting a blank page isn't a great way to convince people that your Page is valuable enough to add to their Circles. So invest some time into optimizing your page and sharing a few links to valuable content before you start promoting it to the masses.

III. CUSTOMIZING A GOOGLE+ PAGE

To go from your personal profile to one of your page, click on the small down arrow under your name.

Edit your page profile by adding an ‘introduction’, contact info and website. To do this simply click on the blue ‘edit profile’ button.

Your bio allows you to put in your entire service offering. Make it count. It even has a full rich text editor so you can bold, underline and italicize your text, input hyperlinks, bulleting and numbers.

Add Scrapbook Photos. To add images to create a ‘photostrip’ effect, click on the blue ‘edit profile’ button and then click ‘Add some photos here’. See how to make the photostrip effect here: http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/how-to-customise-your-google-plusprofile-page/

If you want to show geo location information in newly uploaded albums and photos, be sure to check the box under the ‘Photo’s’ tab when editing your page.

Set up a short URL or redirect of some kind that’s memorable. For example for my +Creative Web Design page, I will create www.creativewebdesign.ro/+. That will be easier for everybody to share.

IV. SHARING AS A GOOGLE+ PAGE

Make sure you pre-populate your page with content before announcing it to your fans on other networks. That way, they’re more likely to add you to their Google+ Circles when they get to your page.

You can do many of the same things that a personal account can do, including: share photos, share videos, share links, conduct hangouts.

There are currently 2 calls to action for your potential followers, have them ‘circle’ you (or add your brand page to their circles) and +1 your page.

It doesn’t appear that there’s any support for automatically posting to a page. That’s likely to come as part of a future Google+ API release. Google gave no further update on when this is coming.

Unlike Facebook, Google+ Pages is a little more forgiving if you make a typo in a post or suddenly decide you don’t want people to leave comments or share with others – you can edit the post or change that setting AFTER you’ve posted.

Regularly share fresh content, react and respond to your fans, be engaging, and optimize for lead generation. Then measure, adapt your strategy, and optimize your presence based on your own individual results and goals.

You can disable comments on posts you share via your Brand page. When you disable comments on a post, other people will no longer be able to leave comments (but they can still +1 and reshare it). You can also delete a post or disable resharing if that's what you want.

What NOT to do. Don’t spam. Don’t leave comments in other people’s posts asking them to follow your page. Don’t share to often. You will get your page deleted. And probably your personal account as well. I warned you.

V. PROMOTING YOUR GOOGLE+ PAGE

Link up your Google+ Pages on your website using the Badge Maker so that you get the benefit of the rel=publisher tag and make yourself eligible for Google Direct Connect. To get the custom code, click on the ‘Get started’ link on your brand page profile and then go to the ‘Connect your website’ section.

Cross promote on all your other networks. Post a link to your new Google+ page on your other social media, email newsletters, and on your site, inviting followers there to add your page to their circles on Google+.

Post interesting, relevant content; ask questions that get people to comment and engage; and don’t be shy about asking followers to share your posts with their friends.

Post a variety of content. Make use of Google+’s rich display of photos and videos. Google+ displays media in follower’s streams more prominently and pleasingly than Facebook, so it’s a big “plus” here to call attention to your posts.

Engage with followers. Encourage and participate in conversations about your posts.

Ask your employee base to promote your Google+ Page to their networks. This is doubly easy if your employees are using Google+ for Apps, since you can just send an all-system email. If they’re already on Google+, they should circle the company page first.

Display the +1 button everywhere.

Use your mailing list

Make sure that you promote your page off of Google+ with links, drive users to add you to circles and post regularly on your Google+ page and you may have a better chance of accessing Google+ Direct Connect.

VI. TARGETING YOUR AUDIENCE WITH YOUR GOOGLE+ PAGE

Google Plus makes it pretty easy to sort followers into groups (they call them Circles) and send targeted, relevant messages to these smaller audiences. Brands can create robust content calendars with posts intended just for certain cities, ages, gender and languages.

You get to separate your VIPs, Customers, Following, and Team Members into circles. Meaning you can market to just your VIP customers, just your Team members (think “collaboration” or team updates), your Customers, and then anyone you are Following (think prospect customers).

These are just the default circles, but you can target your audience the way you want it. Just ask your followers where they’re from, what they like and so on. The opportunities are limitless. And free of charge.

VII. USING HANGOUTS FOR YOUR GOOGLE+ PAGE

As previously suspected, they’ve recently integrated Google Docs for brand pages (Hangouts with extras)

As a brand page you have the ability to create Hangouts which can be huge to create that community and collaborate with your partners. It’s also a great way, especially for celebrities, to make that connection to their fans.

The “Hangouts with extras” feature has integrated Google Docs, allows you to name your Hangout, share notes and sketchpad, and allows screen sharing for total collaboration.

VIII. OPTIMIZING YOUR GOOGLE+ PAGE FOR SEO

1. Page name, tagline, introduction, keywords
If you are branding your business, put that as your page name. Then add your tagline and about info using keywords you normally use. Your page name will be the title (see the name in the browser tab).Your page name + tagline will be the META description of the page which are important ranking factors

That means you should use keyword rich descriptions. That doesn’t mean you should use keyword stuffing, just name the page so it matches your site/business and write the tagline and introduction as you would write a description for your site – use keywords but write for people telling them what your page is about.

Fill out the “About” section completely. Be sure to mention your keywords in this section when you can. Like other SEO initiatives, be sure to focus on creating useful, engaging content first, then gently inserting keywords when appropriate as a secondary priority.

Be sure to add a link to your website (and other online assets) in your Recommended Links section. Because you can customize the anchor text, you can make these links extra SEO-friendly by including a keyword in the anchor text when appropriate.

Fill out as many of the fields as you can, and be sure to include various types of media (text, photos, video, etc.) so that search engines see a rich experience when they crawl your page.

2. Tag images
You can tag images you add to your page, so for example, if you have a photo with some famous person in your industry, you can tag that person in your page’s photo.

3. Cross promoting. Link to all of the social networks your brand has a presence. You can customize the name of the link as well.

Include a link to your Google+ Page from your corporate website and other assets such as your LinkedIn profile, your blog, and any other websites you have. Building links to your Google+ Page will help it rank on the first page for your brand name and possibly other keywords as well.

Additionally, your website itself should have +1 buttons. Make sure it is easy for people to “+1″ content and share it with their Circles on Google+.

4. Consider creating multiple pages. You can create a page for each individual stores/franchises or line of products, as appropriate.

5. Once your Page is ready to share, start building an audience. Search engines will recognize your popularity as a sign of authority. That authority will translate in to better rankings as well.

6. When sharing photos. Upload photos, and include descriptions for each photo. Where feasible, add a link to a page on your website with more information on the product or item featured in the photo.

7. When sharing videos. You can do the same for videos: upload videos and include transcripts or summaries of the video content for SEO purposes. Link back to your website for more information where you can.

8. When sharing content. Unlike Twitter or Facebook, Google+ gives you the possibility to write very long messages if you want to. Publish content that your fans will find useful and engaging. When a long-form message is appropriate, try to optimize this content like you might optimize a blog post. Individual posts do get their own URL. So if a post goes viral, it is entirely possible that the post itself ranks well in the search engines.

IX. MEASURING STATISTICS FOR YOUR GOOGLE+ PAGE

1. Using Ripples

Ripples show you:
* Number of public and total reshares
* Names of each follower that reshared your post
* Number of direct public reshares from each follower
* Names with links, comments and relative time of most recent followers with reshares
* A timeline to show the progression of the shares

Things to look for:
* Time of day that most reshares occur
* Time of day that your biggest resharers repost. For example, if we were to look at several ripples and see that +Someone to post or repost around the same time each day, we could almost figure out the best times to get him to reshare stuff he likes (assuming he's following you).
* How influential is your topic?
- to which followers?
- at what time of day?
- to how many people?
* Do resharers comments make a difference? Take a look at the right side and see if they added their own comments to the reshare or did the post stand on its own.
* Were most of your reshares a result of a direct share from you or from reshares from other people?

2. Using third-party websites

CircleCount.com allows you to list your Google+ Business Page in the CircleCount directory. They will show you a nice chart, track the number of new followers you get every day and show you the average numbers for your latest postings (comments, +1es, reshares per posting).

They will also show your CircleRank, a nice follower growth simulation on your profile and the most followed Google+ Pages at www.circlecount.com/pages/

Adding yourself to the SocialStatistics.com directory allows you to track your own Google+ profile or page, giving you follower’s statistics and chart. You can see the most followed Google+ Pages at http://socialstatistics.com/top/pages

10. COOL EXAMPLES OF GOOGLE PLUS PAGES

+adidas Originals
+Google Chrome
+Pepsi
+Mashable
+Android
+TOYOTA
+Fox News
+HootSuite
+Angry Birds

ARTICLES THAT INSPIRED ME:

How to Set Up a Google+ Brand Page
http://mashable.com/2011/11/08/how-to-google-plus-brand-page/

How to Get Started With Google+ Pages for Business
http://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/11/how-to-get-started-with-google-pages-for-business/#.TsE06z1Fu7t

How to Create a Google+ Business Page in 5 Simple Steps
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/28624/How-to-Create-a-Google-Business-Page-in-5-Simple-Steps.aspx

Google+ Pages, 11 Tips To Get You Started
http://socialfresh.com/google-pages-11-tips-to-get-you-started/

HOW TO MAKE YOUR GOOGLE+ BRAND PAGE MORE VISIBLE
http://greatfinds.icrossing.com/how-to-make-your-google-brand-page-more-visible/

Complete Guide to Optimizing Your Google+ Brand Page
http://www.virante.com/blog/2011/11/09/complete-guide-to-optimizing-your-google-brand-page/

Digging Into Ripples by +Dan Soto
https://plus.google.com/u/0/114122960748905067938/posts/CWpuKNuDQ1g

13 Cool Examples of Google+ Brand Pages
http://www.dreamgrow.com/13-cool-examples-of-google-brand-pages/

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Other useful posts: #gvgpUseful

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Kids today

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#Wireless everywhere

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Oh this new wireless technology :)

#DataViz  

Are we still in March or already in April?

#GoogleReader  

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#Truth  +1 and share if you agree!

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I need to Cloudwash our software

We don't care what smart people think, there aren't that many of them
 

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A classic from xkcd...

DataScience

Introducing Shiny: Easy web applications in R http://www.r-bloggers.com/introducing-shiny-easy-web-applications-in-r/

A gentle and convincing introduction to Git and Github
and why this is going to change the world ...

http://on.ted.com/CShirky2012

+Clay Shirky 

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Amazing

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O.O what did you see ?

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#JellyBean  

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How to impress your friends (or annoy your iOS counterparts): 40+ voice searches thrown at Google on Jelly Bean

I never make videos, but felt compelled to share the many new voice capabilities on +Android, some of which were not demoed on stage during Google #io12. You may be surprised by some answers, notably those provided by the Knowledge Graph.

This is not a performance or comparison test (I don't have an iPhone 4S or a Samsung Galaxy S3).

Also, sorry about the quality. My old Canon PowerShot does NOT do justice to the beautiful screen on the Galaxy Nexus.

Disclaimer: the only edits I made were to cut time between each of my queries, as well as re-order some of the demos from the original order I recorded them in, so they would fit into categories. None of the queries themselves have been edited or cut down, and the sequences are intact. The processing time happened exactly as you see. This demo is made on the early build of Android 4.1 (JRN84D, takju build for Galaxy Nexus I/O edition), on a wifi connection. Consider this beta.

A few observations:

1. Google will give you walking or driving directions directly, if you specify it. Asking for transit or biking directions does not work at the moment.

2. Google is able to distinguish how 'long' a bridge is in length vs. how 'long' a movie is in duration. That's assuming the data already exists in the KG.

3. Local search, coupled with auto-correct, is able to properly locate and spell 'Worcester Mass' and 'Wooster College', even though these places are in different states and can be pronounced the same way (or at least, I did).

4. The voice will speak back any answer it finds in the KG; however, Google currently requires that your query somewhat matches the way attributes are labeled in the Graph. For example, asking for the 'height requirement' of Space Mountain works, but asking 'how tall do I have to be for Space Mountain' does not work at the moment, because this particular data is labeled as 'height requirement'.

5. In order for answer cards to work properly, everything on your device (and the Google Now app) must be set to US English. More languages will be available soon.

6. Sorry, Siri! Although I'm not on the  #boycottapple  bandwagon per se, I gotta say, it's becoming more difficult to love you. :)

Hilarious
Sarkhollande: They call them Dupont and Dupond
/v +Jean-Michel Billaut

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#BoycottElsevier

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Eisen:

"The scientific community could decide tomorrow to eliminate restrictions on access to the research literature. But, because of a complex stew of narrow self-interest, vanity, laziness and tradition, the majority of scientists continue to feed the beast – unwilling to act on their own to change a system they know is wrong."

What is a Turing Machine?
http://goo.gl/sTtbl
/v @Jose_A_Alonso

"With 2012 being designated Alan Turing Year, you may find you are asked to explain just what a Turing Machine is and why it is so important. Here is an illustrated guide..."

Interesting reading on #OpenTeaching
http://goo.gl/2MO8t

"... and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the end of the tyranny of the degree. When big name employers accept another credential in place of a Bachelors, the jig is up for higher ed.

"And it will absolutely happen during 2012. Before the year ends we’ll read stories of people who don’t have a degree landing very respectable jobs partially on the strength of these a la carte, informal credentials earned in an open teaching model."
"Employment possibilities based on individual course credentials rather than entire degrees means a decline in traditional university enrollments. Why go into four years’ worth of student loan debt when I can get the eight courses I need for a job in 18 months? People in and out of the university system in 18 months instead of 48 means an instant doubling of higher education capacity in the US"

"The drop in general education enrollments will also impact the size of the job market for adjunct faculty."

"These declines in overall enrollments generally and in general education courses specifically will impact higher education’s funding model."

"Perhaps the most interesting part of this analysis is the degree to which the fate of higher education will be dictated by the whims of industry."

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Abstraction is the power of stating with precision (1) which elements you want to consider and (2) which elements you want to ignore (or to "abstract out") in the observation of a given system at a given timepoint, for a given purpose.

Thanks for +Antonio Vallecillo for reminding the quote from Edsger W. Dijkstra: the purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise [1]

[1] Edsger W. Dijkstra: "The Humble Programmer "ACM Turing Lecture 1972.
http://goo.gl/QAB3t

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RT @Pete_Brown: wow. just wow. Devil's Pool Victoria Falls

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Save A Life, Recognize A Stroke: STR

I lost an aunt to a stroke recently, so this information has special significance to me. A high school classmate shared this on Facebook today and I thought I should share it with you all.

S Ask the individual to SMILE;
T = TALK. Ask the person to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (e.g. 'It is sunny out today');
R Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS."

Below posted on Facebook by Yash Ar, https://www.facebook.com/yashar1

You can Save someone's life by sharing this.

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
During a party, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. (they offered to call ambulance)

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken up, Ingrid went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00pm , Ingrid passed away.)
She had suffered a stroke at the party . Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be with us today.

Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. It only takes a minute to read this...

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Remember the '3' steps, STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster.
The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions :

S * Ask the individual to SMILE ..
T * = TALK. Ask the person to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (eg 'It is sunny out today').
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS .

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call the ambulance and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

NOTE : Another 'sign' of a stroke is
1. Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue.
2. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke.

A prominent cardiologist says if everyone who gets this status shares it; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.

And it could be your own.

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I guess this guy had to run after the picture...

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Good idea.

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[The "G" Clearly Stands for "Genius"]

Oh, wow. On top of the last two posts (https://plus.google.com/u/0/103765013042311928518/posts/cfwYX5ACG99 and https://plus.google.com/u/0/103765013042311928518/posts/RqsXwoH9Xs9) +Patrick Dorr just shared with me this novel use for toilet-paper rolls! Keep 'em coming! The OCD-nerd in me is looooving this. :D

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via +Mary Lignoul Robinson

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Scientific publications are some of the most outrageously expensive pieces of literature you can buy We should repeat this again and again in order to convince some academic institutions to move.

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Very good story and I really agree that the model of publishing in science should be redesigned. It is just wrong:

"Academic publishing is an odd system — the authors are not paid for their writing, nor are the peer reviewers (they’re just more unpaid academics), and in some fields even the journal editors are unpaid. Sometimes the authors must even pay the publishers.
And yet scientific publications are some of the most outrageously expensive pieces of literature you can buy. In the past, the high access fees supported the costly mechanical reproduction of niche paper journals, but online distribution has mostly made this function obsolete."

Wholse text on:

http://gigaom.com/2011/07/21/pirate-bay-jstor/

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One picture says a lot. Plenty of examples come to mind.

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#diferencias

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Scientific Publication is pure rentier capitalism or economic parasitism.
Could not agree more.
How did the academic community come to accept this?

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Publication scientifique.

"What we see here is pure rentier capitalism: monopolising a public resource then charging exorbitant fees to use it. Another term for it is economic parasitism. To obtain the knowledge for which we have already paid, we must surrender our feu to the lairds of learning."

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Patented Emotions http://mimiandeunice.com/2011/08/17/patented-emotions/

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List of all computer ports

Hilarious
Very well observed

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#NoSQL

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Go NoSQL Style -- Gangnam Style for IT people and Nerds! NoSQL Style (Gangnam Style Parody for Geeks)

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#ChromeBook   #Ubuntu  

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I flipped the developer switch on my $249 Chromebook, downloaded crouton, typed in a few commands, waited several minutes, and now I'm running a full version of Ubuntu alongside stock Chrome OS.

My Chromebook is no longer just a content-consumption device, as I now have access to the full suite of GNU/Linux programs that I'm already used to using. I immediately installed Emacs, GCC, gEDA, and a cross-compiler so I can use it to design circuit boards and program microcontrollers.

There is no dual booting involved, nor am I paying the performance/memory hit of running an entire OS in a virtual machine (it shares its kernel with Chrome OS). The Chromebook still cold boots in just a few seconds, wakes from sleep instantly, and receives its updates like normal. Chrome OS handles the network, power management, and other hardware like a champ, the only difference being that if I want to do something more than just surf the web, I can hold down a few keys, and instantly switch between Chrome OS and Ubuntu.

I can't believe that I ever considered buying an expensive MacBook Air and installing GNU/Linux on it, when for just the price of the AppleCare Protection Plan alone, I was able to buy an entire (brand new) laptop that got me the same end result with minimal effort.

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If you wanna draw some software diagrams you can use PlantUML. There are many plugin implementation for different platforms (e.g. LaTex, Wikis, jQuery).

http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/

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Excellent trick. Thanks Dragan. Going to change all my passwords to "incorrect". Makes life much simpler.

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How to remember a password

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I wholeheartedly support this initiative

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Robotic elephant, can carry up to 49 passengers, really it's true!


Video proof here
http://frigginlaser.com/2012/02/24/robotic-elephant-can-carry-up-to-49-passengers-really-its-true-i-have-video-proof/

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#Piracy

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Very nice article about iracy and Movies http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/02/03/you-will-never-kill-piracy-and-piracy-will-never-kill-you/

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#ControlOfInternetSpeech

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