Got this email in my inbox this morning, and at first blush it looks pretty convincing. So the important question is, how do you know if it’s real or not?  There’s no single point of failure here, an element that says it’s a scam for sure, but let’s look at a non-exhaustive list of what’s wrong with this email. Which Inbox First look at your own inbox.  Is this the email address that your bank [...]

Facebook is not run by philanthropists intent on providing a valuable service to the world by helping them keep in contact with people they know (or don’t know as the case may be).  It is run by businessmen who are making money in various ways that include selling advertising and personalization. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with making money (I like to do that myself), but it does have an impact on how [...]

I’m not the most creative person in the world, but every once in awhile I try. We were carving pumpkins for family night on Monday and I was trying to think of something besides the regular old triangle-nose-smiley-face-with-two-teeth pumpkin. Alison suggested I do the cube. She was referring to the weighted companion cube from a game called Portal in which you weave your way through levels of physics puzzles with your portal gun and anything [...]

Call me a sellout (I’m ashamed already), but I have it on pretty good authority that in order to be a good blogger, you need to be on Twitter. Now that I’m taking this blogging thing a little more seriously (on the Omniture Blog), I went ahead and made an account. The straight facts? It is a pretty good way to spread the word to a crowd of people with a certain interest, though it [...]

And the last piece that I was waiting for has fallen into place.  I’m now officially the newest member of the Omniture Blogging team.  Find my analytics related posts at http://blogs.omniture.com/author/brobison/.