September 01, 2012
Cloud Storage Race – Dropbox, Google Drive, Box
Even though cloud storage market is almost completely populated at this moment, Dropbox, Google Drive and Box seem to be the biggest players in the race. Different providers might offer various features but these three remain synonyms for cloud storage.
Features that all cloud storage services have in common are: folder syncing across multiple devices, file sharing and online backup. Pricing plans and storage space differ from provider to provider and it becomes increasingly difficult to choose only one of them. However, these three big names seem to constantly be in the race. I’m not including Skydrive from Microsoft for now and will be covering it at later stage, whenWindows 8 will officially launched the final version. For now, lets quickly look into some of the features of Dropbox, box and Google drive.Dropbox Vs. Google Drive vs Box cloud storage:
Dropbox:
Dropbox is the leading consumer-oriented cloud storage with 50 million registered users. This number is mostly reached through its referral program – 500 MB bonus storage in free account and 1 GB in premium accounts for each new user that accepts your invite. This was basically the word of mouth marketing for Dropbox. Its simple interface and intuitive features were enough to gain users’ attention, especially among those that are not particularly tech savvy. The simplicity is probably the most notable feature of Dropbox, but this doesn’t mean it’s poor in functions.
The best thing about Skydrive is their huge user base and it supports multiple platform. Being one of the popular and oldest cloud storage here, they have a huge advantage but now with launch of Google drive and skydrive, and leaked Dropbox password, we can expect other free cloud storage services to take a leap.
Google Drive:
Google Drive’s adoption was very smooth among Gmail users. It somehow came as the missing piece of a puzzle for those who were using Gmail and Google Docs for years. Though it entered cloud storage race quite late, Google Drive was able to gain plenty of faithful users. In the first 48h after launch it reached 5 million downloads.
By the end of June that number doubled. Even though it was long rumored that GDrive would be Dropbox killer, it actually didn’t take over many Dropbox users. Rather, it remained the choice of faithful Google fans because of its excellent integration with G Docs and Gmail. If you are an iPad user, you will love to use Google drive on it. It might take little time to get use to Google drive, but by converting docs.google.com to Google drive, Google got their initial user base without any sweat. If you have not yet started with Google drive, you can quickly grab a free account from here using your existing Google login.
BOX:
Box cannot actually be compared to these two because its focus is mostly enterprise market. Box is a big name with more than 11 million users and 120,000 businesses and this number continues to grow. Box constantly improves its services and seeks new ways to penetrate different markets. Recently they announced opening the offices in Europe and enhanced collaboration with the partners – they introduced free storage on HP desktops and assigned free Box accounts to LGAndroid device buyers. But what exactly makes Box enterprise market favorite? Though their free account is obviously poor with features, the premium accounts allow creating online workspaces by syncing any folder with contents, comments and discussions, task assignment and many others. Besides this they have a great pro pricing plan.
You can also check out Pingdom comparison of Dropbox vs Google drive vs box vs Skydrive here.
All three big companies have different weapons to conquer particular segments of the market. It is expected that Gmail users would prefer Google Drive, but the real battle is for the platform agnostic ones. As more users start moving to the cloud their expectations from the services grow. Even though all providers give their best to improve their services it is still hard to announce a single winner.
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August 21, 2012
Facebook Users Watch 500 years of YouTube Video Every Day!
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Every person on Earth spends an average of 26 minutes on YouTube per month.
Do you know that "500 years of YouTube video" are watched on Facebook every single day?
Google has released new statistics around YouTube usage across the world and the world's favorite video website continues to set new records. Here are some highlights:
- In 2011, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views* (video playbacks).
- 60 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. This number was only "48 hours" a couple of months ago.
- Over 4 billion YouTube videos are viewed a day up from 3 billion so the new channel based layout seem to be doing well for YouTube.
- Over 3 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube.
The one figure that has however stayed constant for YouTube in the past few months is the number of unique visitors. YouTube, according to the press page, gets around 800 million uniques every month so they still another 50 million to beat Facebook.
[*] Facebook gets around a trillion pageviews every month according to Google's own data.The YouTube statistics page also says that 700 YouTube videos are shared on Twitter each minute. Surprisingly, there's still no mention of Google Plus on that page.
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How to Turn Twitter into a Gmail Notifier
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I am ready to share a little project around Gmail that I have been working on this weekend. The idea is that you can turn your Twitter Timeline into a Gmail Notifier and get notified (via tweets) as soon as new email messages arrive in your mailbox.
And since you can link Twitter to your phone number, you can even get SMS text alerts for new Gmail messages on your mobile phone with the help of Twitter. There's no programming required and you can be up and running in 5 minutes.
Tutorial: Get Gmail notifications as Tweets or SMS Alerts
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Use Google Analytics to Track When People Print your Web Pages
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Say you have a website that is printer-friendly but you are not too sure if people are actually printing your web pages. And if they are, you are interested to know how often they print pages and what is the kind of content that users are most likely to print on your site.
There are basically three ways to print any standard web page (see above screenshot):
- Experienced users may press the Ctrl + P keyboard shortcut (or Command-P on a Mac) to send the current web page to the printer.
- Some web pages have a dedicated PRINT button on the page itself.
- Other users may prefer to print web pages from the File Menu that is standard across all browsers.
Because there are multiple ways to print the same web page, it is difficult to use JavaScript based event tracking in Google Analytics to track print usage.
A simple workaround is that you add an invisible tracking image (like the ones used for read receipts in email) only in the printed version of a web page. Thus when a user prints a web page, through any route, that tracking image will download on his / her computer and you can easily track the print (and print preview) action.
Track Print Usage with Google Analytics
That was the boring theory but you can safely skip the technical details and get right into implementing the actual tracking code.
All you have to do is copy-paste the following code above the closing </body> tag in your website template. If you are on WordPress, you can simple paste it in your footer.php file.
Please remember to replace REPLACE_ME in the code with your actual Google Analytics Profile ID which looks something like this – UA-12345-89.
<script type="text/javascript"> var ga = "REPLACE_ME"; var css = document.createElement('style'); if (css && ga != "REPLACE_ME") { var gimg = "http://ctrlq.org/urchin/?"; gimg += "id=" + ga; gimg += "&d=" + document.location.hostname; gimg += "&i=" + document.location.pathname; var cstr = "@media print {body:after"; cstr += "{content:url(" + gimg + ")}}"; var node = document.createTextNode(cstr); if (css.styleSheet) { css.styleSheet.cssText = node.nodeValue; } else { css.appendChild(node); } var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]; if (head) { head.appendChild(css); } } </script> Once the tracking code is live, wait for a day or two as as Google Analytics may take time to process usage data. Then log in to your Google Analytics dashboard, go to Content –> Site Content –> Pages and set /print/ as the search filter.
You'll get a complete list of web pages that have been printed in this duration while the Pageview column will reflect the the number of times a particular page has been printed . Set the Secondary Dimension in the report as Browser or Operating System or Country and you'll get additional details about the users who are using the Print function on your web site.
Here's a sample print usage report generated with Google Analytics.
How Print Tracking Works?
Should you be interested in the technical details, here they are. The JavaScript code adds the following CSS rule to your HTML webpage while it is rendering in the browser.
<style type="text/css"> @media print { body:after { content:url("GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_TRACKING_IMAGE") } } </style>This is simple print only rule that will add an invisible tracking image to the printer-friendly version of your page (body:after). When a user prints the page, the tracking image downloads on the user's computer and this is registered as a page view in Google Analytics as shown in the above report.
The above CSS rule is only activated when the users invokes the print or print preview command. Some PDF writing programs also use the Print stylesheet when saving web pages to PDFs and thus, the same tracking code will work in those cases as well.
PS: If you have a PHP enabled web server, you can simple copy this PHP file on to your own server as index.php and replace ctrlq.org/urchin in the above JavaScript code with your own web server's address.
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