May 2009 Update:  I wrote this post over 2 years ago while I was still a Master’s student at BYU.  In the interest of full disclosure, I now work at Omniture.  Because I get the bulk of my traffic from search engines and variations on the Google Analytics vs. Omniture theme are always in my top 20 search terms, I wanted to make sure that my readers knew the current situation.   Not everything I [...]

I suppose I’ve probably mentioned this before, but Omniture is sponsoring a web analytics competition at Brigham Young University. I’m happy to announce that after a weekend of stewing my group was just informed that we’ve made it into the finals. Of the 40 or so teams that signed up originally, they’ve selected 4 to go into the finals. We just found out and the finals are only 3 days away. There isn’t a whole [...]

It’s been awhile since I wrote anything related to Web Analytics.  I’ve been involved in a competition sponsored by Omniture where we pour over a sites data and figure out what recommendations we can make to the company’s management to improve site and boost online revenue.  I can’t say much since I signed a Non-Disclosure agreement, but it has certainly been interesting. I ran across this article and thought it was interesting in the context [...]

So I had a momentary lapse into insanity over this last President’s day weekend and tried out a few other distributions of Linux. I began with Gentoo. I believe that compiling software from source is the worst possible software distribution model, but I figure it’s always wise to know the enemy (and I saw a friend running it with some really sweet 3d animations). Gentoo I figured I’d give it a try. I will say [...]

This was a strange exception that I struggled with for several hours this evening, but I have finally prevailed. The Background For my Information Architecture class, we’ve got to create a web service provider and a web service requester, this provided the initial impetus for my recent push into web services and the last few posts dedicated to the topic. Now our professor has published a web service that basically dumps his database out into [...]