How to install packages on Ubuntu behind a Proxy Server?
-Akshay RanganathWhile working behind a proxy, the normalsudo apt-get install may not work. This is because of the command line interface does not detect the proxy settings. To ensure a smooth...
View ArticleAdsense Basics
Lets discuss a few things about Google adsense. Once you get your account approved you will have 3 different ways to make money.1.Adsense for content2.Adsense for search3.ReferralsFor all the 3 types,...
View ArticleAdsense Features
Let us look into some features that are given by adsense which make a publisher’s life a hell lot easier.1. Channels:Channels are primarily used to determine which type of ads or what pages are earning...
View ArticleWhy del.icio.us is more Web2.0 than digg.com?
-Akshay RanganathToday, I was reading the book, "The Long tail" and I started to wonder on which of the sites digg.com or del.icio.us offers a more user-oriented behaviour? After all Web2.0 is about...
View Article3 Months after Ubuntu...
-Akshay RanganathIts been three months since I installed Ubuntu 7 (Fiesty Fawn) on my laptop. Looking back at the way I've used it and issues faced, here's my take on the system:1. User InterfaceThe UI...
View ArticleCase Study - How to analyze a Web Analytics Report?
Akshay RanganathWhat to see in your Analytics Report?Once you have for the Analytics Code onto the site, what do you start to measure? Here’s a short article on it with Google Analytics and a Blog on...
View Article7 Web Analytics Sins - White Paper by ClickTracks
-Akshay Ranganath Read this nice article on the 7 Web Analytics Sins from ClickTrack. The 7 sins are: Sin #1: Simple Visitor CountsLearn the factors that can potentially skew visitor data. Sin #2:...
View ArticleHow to design website to be web analytics friendly?
-Akshay RanganathLast week, we received a few requests for implementing Analytics code on over 1000 pages of a client web site. It was while breaking our heads over the sheer amount of mundane task...
View ArticleWhy resourcing is difficult for Web Analytics?
Lately, I had to take sessions on Web Analytics to multiple user groups. The types of questions that were asked and the focus from the groups opened my eyes on a problem that we'd never realized till...
View ArticleMalacious help on Linux - and how to avoid it!
Today, I read this intriguing article on dangerous or malacious code on Ubuntu. The article was quite an revealeation in terms of how someone can ensure that your life with Linux is destroyed! The post...
View ArticleA Resounding accolade to Open-ness!
-Akshay Ranganath In the hard-headed economically oriented and prestigious magazine, The Economist, Open Source has come in for a lot of praise. Read the article on predictions for the year 2008 with...
View ArticleWhat my guts tells me about future of media?
-Akshay Ranganath There was a wonderful article on how where the Media as a space is headed. This is an article by a VC about how he sees his kids use the new media and what he can derive from their...
View ArticleArticle: Lessons on corporate blogging
-Akshay Ranganath In his article, Lessons from Corporate Blogging , Nicholas Carr, the author of the controversial paper, 'Does IT Matter ' puts in his thoughts over corporate blogging. Here's what he...
View ArticleTutorial: Analyzing trends through Web Analytics
-Akshay Ranganath After a long break from the field of analytics, I am back to it! I was just waiting for the data to be collected on my blog to take this further. In this article, I'll try and explain...
View ArticleHelp please: Which Linux distro is best for mom and dad?
-Akshay Ranganath My Problem Well, as usual, my desktop running Windows XP got infected by virus and died yesterday (Apparantly, AVG did not help). I was about to re-install XP on it when it dawned on...
View ArticlephpMyVisites: A Short Review
-Akshay Ranganath Lately, we've been conducting a lot of tools evaluation for a new client. One of the things that we were looking was to see if any Web Analytics tool could help us in readily getting...
View ArticleShort guide to using Web Analytics Solution Profiler (WASP)
Today, I was just looking at something and stumbled a nifty tool call W.A.S.P. Its a plugin for Firefox and stands for Web Analytics Solution Profiler. Freely downloadable from http://wasp.immeria.net,...
View ArticleShould I use a Third party or a First party cookie
-Akshay RanganathIn this artilce, I'd like to point out the difference between the third and first party cookies and the relative merits / demerits of both. Its based on the article by Avinash...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome - A Quick Review
-Akshay Ranganath Today, Google is launching it's new browser called "Google Chrome" as a beta in more than 100 countries. This is to be an open source browser, taking a lot from the communities of...
View ArticleMarketing campaign analysis & tracking via Google Analytics
In the world of web analytics, one of the fundamental pillars of understanding the site behaviour is through segmentation whose “is to allow your marketing/sales program to focus on the subset of...
View ArticleGoogle updates Google Analytics solution
-Akshay Ranganath Google recenty announce bundling of more Enterprise class features into its Analytics package (See Google Analytics blog at...
View ArticlePiWik v/s Google Analytics
-Akshay Ranganath For a particular need, I had done a comparison of Piwik versus Google Analytics as a web analytics tool. Thought of sharing the same. Points considered in evaluation Cost /...
View ArticleGoogle Chrome is now off beta
-Akshay Ranganath As per the Google Blog dated 11th Dec, Google Chrome is now off beta. Frankly though, I am so used to FF that Google Chrome never really registered with me. I did use it more as a...
View ArticleUbuntu & Chrome - Dual Attack on Microsoft?
-Akshay Ranganath Today, I was just going through some of the popular news items on Digg and found some interesting articles. Microsoft which has been the leader in desktop OS and the browser market...
View ArticleAn Ode to OpenSource
-Akshay RanganathLast week, in our office, we were working on building an application that needed some graphs and charting capability. Lots of options came up, from Flash, to Silverlight, CSS, AJAX and...
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