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The unfortunate part of something this transformative is the inevitable, ardent stupidity which is going to erupt from the general public. Even if in a few years self-driving cars are proven to be ten times safer than human-operated cars, all it’s going to take is one tragic accident and the public is going to lose their minds. There will be outrage. There will be politicizing. There will be hashtags.
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I was wondering how long it would take people to spam Google Analytics. Looks like it's happening now. http://www.ditherandbicker.com/posts/2015-01-10-rip-google-analytics.html -
Google takes over operations of Moffett Airfield, taking the real world one step closer to @hertling's Avogadro Corp http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/10/google-moffett-airfield-nasa/
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Interesting you mark this section of it, this part also stood out to me. As a l... | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
At first, it was striking that one day I booked a flight and then about two weeks later, my dashboard mentioned to me that I should leave 40 minutes early for my flight because of a traffic accident. It knew my flight information, when I should leave, and routes to the airport. I followed Google's suggestion and made it to the airport on time, taking an alternate route Google displayed for me. Once I landed, Google updated my dashboard about the currency exchange, surrounding events, restaurant reviews, foreign news, and more... it "knew" I wasn't home anymore, but across the world. It was initially strange, but with more trips and more experiences, I grew to like that Google could give me handy data.
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How is Google personalizing this map? http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3722/10761397654_deefb80970_o.png I never check in on Google Places, only Foursquare, and somehow they are *only* showing businesses that I have been to on this map!
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@ChrisTeso Wow, that's it, thanks! "At Google, we keep search logs to improve our services..."
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Does Chrome submit URLs you visit to the Google search indexer?
Today I surprisingly found a page in a Google search I was looking through, but I know I'm the only person who could have possibly visited the page.
The page was a debugging URL I was using to monitor some server activity, and I never shared it with anyone or pasted it in any chat interface. It is even running on a non-standard port, so even visiting the root domain wouldn't lead a crawler to it.
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Tracking Facebook Likes in Google Analytics
Google Analytics provides some hooks for tracking Facebook likes on your web pages as well as other social interactions. This lets you see how many people have "liked" your pages, and which pages are most popular on Facebook!
This is a quick guide on how to set up Facebook like tracking in Google Analytics.
First, in your
<head>tag, put your Google Analytics tracking code as normal.<head> ... <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); </script> </head>Then, immediately after your
<body>tag, add the Facebook script according to their documentation.<body> <div id="fb-root"></div> <script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script> ...Now here comes the magic. Immediately after the Facebook script, add a new script tag with the following:
<script> window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.Event.subscribe('edge.create', function(targetUrl) { _gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'facebook', 'like', targetUrl]); }); FB.Event.subscribe('edge.remove', function(targetUrl) { _gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'facebook', 'unlike', targetUrl]); }); FB.Event.subscribe('message.send', function(targetUrl) { _gaq.push(['_trackSocial', 'facebook', 'send', targetUrl]); }); }; </script>This will track likes, unlikes and shares of all your pages and send the data to Google Analytics.
Don't forget to actually add the "Like" button somewhere on your page!
<div class="fb-like" data-send="false" data-width="300"></div>Now, in Google Analytics, you will be able to find the reports by clicking Traffic Sources -> Social -> Plugins.
