The semiannual Omniture Web Analytics Competition kicks off this Thursday at 251 TNRB (Tanner Building) in the Marriott School building of the BYU campus in Provo, Utah (Google Map). The competition is co-sponsored by Omniture (OMTR) and the Kevin and Debra Rollins Center for eBusiness at BYU.

Check out the event notice on Facebook for more information, share with your friends, or to RSVP! Save to your calendar here.

The competition, which has been running for several years, gets steadilly more intense. With that, the prizes this year have also been increased to reflect the incredible creativity and passion the competitors have placed in the event.

What is the Web Analytics Competition?

The Omniture Web Analytics Competition is an event where student teams analyze an actual company’s web site using Omniture’s flagship software SiteCatalyst. After performing the analysis, teams then present their findings and recommendations to a panel of Omniture judges who in turn choose four teams to present at the competition’s final event.

About Omniture

Omniture, Inc., headquartered in Orem, Utah, is the pioneer of next-generation online analytics technology that delivers the essential intelligence web commerce leaders and innovators that drive business decisions to increase ROI. Omniture’s SiteCatalyst is the most mature and comprehensive technology for web analytics, offering unprecedented scalability and flexibility combined with an intuitive user interface. Omniture is the only company in its market to offer a comprehensive view of activity on a company’s website, including historical (data warehouse) and real-time analysis and reporting. In addition, Omniture offers smart professional service teams, experienced in helping customers determine the questions they must ask in order to arrive at the answers they require. Proof of its world-class technology and outstanding team, Omniture has the highest level of retained and satisfied customers in the market, including eBay, AOL, Wal-Mart, Gannett, Microsoft, Oracle, Intel, Overstock.com, GM and Hewlett-Packard.

No Experience Necessary

Omniture trains all the participants on SiteCatalyst, which in and of itself is a reason to enter. This training is invaluable and could be a difference maker come interview time. If you don’t have a team put together don’t worry. Not only will there be a chance to meet other students at the competition kickoff meeting, but even if you don’t decide to join a team we have had teams of one do very well in the past…even win! So don’t miss out on the chance to gain amazing experience and a nice boost to your resume!

Questions? E-mail owac@byu.edu

Prizes

• 1st place: $10,000 + HDTV(s)
• 2nd place: $5,000 + iPhone(s)
• 3rd place: $2,500 + iPod Nano (s)

More information:

• Check out Omniture.com
• More about Omniture
• More about the eBusiness Center at BYU
• Jobs and Work at Omniture

Utah Open Source Conference

Thursday August 28, 2008 – Saturday August 30, 2008
Salt Lake Community College Redwood Campus
4600 S Redwood Road
Salt Lake City, Utah 84130

Website: http://2008.utosc.com

The Utah Open Source Conference 2008 will be held at the Salt Lake Community College, Redwood Road campus from August 28 – 30, 2008.

The Salt Lake Community College Computer Science department is excited to be a sponsor of the 2008 conference and will be using it to improve students’ awareness and understanding of open source software.

The Utah Open Source Foundation is proud to volunteer their time to help such a great cause as promoting free software and open source.

The pricing for this event is $70, but for college students, Local User Group members and a few select others, the total price will be $35/person. This price is less than last year’s event but will have almost twice the presentations and more room for the presentations.

On the Couchcast, we spoke with Jason Hall about the Utah Open Source Conference this year.

Utah Blogger/Geek Dinner May 2008 by Laura Moncur

Looking for the Utah geeks, bloggers and coders? You’ll find them at the Utah Geek/Blogger Dinner. This month, we’re meeting at Paradise Bakery. If you have been feeling lonely for computer conversation in the Salt Lake Valley, you’ll find it all here!

THEY HAVE WI-FI, so you can bring your laptop if you want!

RSVP at Upcoming.org: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/857123

Utah Blogger/Geek Dinner
Thursday, July 31, 2008
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Paradise Bakery
1010 E 2100 S
Salt Lake City, Utah 84106

Website: http://codeaway.org/

We are hosting a job-fair/open house tomorrow (July 23) from 4pm until 8pm at our offices in Orem, Utah. If you are curious about the Utah Technical job market right now, or you know someone who is, send them by!

We’ll be taking resumes and conducting interviews, and likely playing some pretty mean Mario Kart on the wii.

SOS Engineering & Technology
1256 S. State #101 (West Doors)
Orem, Utah 84097

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Local tech company Bungee Labs is hosting a FREE showing of Batman the Dark Knight this afternoon at 4:00pm. (I interviewed @ReverendTed from Bungee last Friday on the Couchcast)

We believe Utah is home to many amazing companies…and we want to get to
know more of you.

Bring your family or friends and join us this Tuesday, July 22nd, for the
4:00pm show of Batman the Dark Knight at the Jordan Commons Megaplex.

Seating is limited. Reserve your tickets (up to 4) here:
http://www.bungeeconnect.com/movie/batman

Show information
Tuesday July 22nd, 4:00pm

Theater Address
Jordan Commons | 9400 S State St, Sandy | map: http://snipurl.com/2sx47

Let me know if you need more tickets of if you have any questions.

This is an awesome gift to the community from Bungee Labs! Check out more about Bungee Labs by watching a short video (2:27) about the applications you can build with Bungee Connect.

One of my favorite events each month is coming up tomorrow (Friday, 5/30). Phil Windley’s CTO Forum/Breakfast at the Novell Cafeteria in Provo (map).

Anyone interested in how information technology is used to build products or run companies. Despite it’s name, you don’t have to be a CTO to attend—just interested in technology, where it’s headed, and the problems of starting and building a high-tech business in Utah.

If you’ve seen something cool or just want to discuss a current topic, come prepared to bring it up.

Put these future meetings on your calendar:

* June 27 (Friday)
* July 18 (Friday)
* No breakfast in August
* Sept 26 (Friday)

Mozy, a very cool/hot tech company in Utah, is hosting a BIG SHIN-DIG on Friday night this week… and to make enough room, they rented out the entire

HARD ROCK CAFE, SLC
505 S 600 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84102

Get Directions(801) 532-7625 (Google Map)

RSVP on Facebook, if you like… or just show up ready to geek out and party

Details:

When: Friday, May 2nd, 2008 from 7:00-9:00 PM
(Don’t worry though, no one’s going to kick you out at 9:01)
What’s happening: Food and prizes, including: a MacBook Air, an iPhone, an iPod Touch and multiple iTunes gift cards (employees are eligible to win these prizes), entertainment by “Dueling Pianos Anywhere” Come for a minute or come for hours – just make sure you come, cause it’ll be worth one of your Friday nights!

This month’s Geek Lunch is going to be in downtown SLC at the Tucanos in the Gateway!

I have setup reservations for 15 though I’m pretty sure that will need to increase this. Please Please Please RSVP so that I can give an accurate count to them. This is their opening week, in fact, the day after grand opening, so it’ll likely be packed!

Info:

RSVP on upcoming.org or See the calendar item on Utah Tech Events

Also register online with Tucanos and get a $10 Gift Card in honor of the SLC Tucanos Grand Opening!

Details from Laura Moncur:

Thom Allen and Brad Baldwin are sponsoring PodCampSLC in Salt Lake City THIS Saturday March 15, 2008 a10am – 4pm at the Neumont University.

10701 S. River Front Parkway, Suite 300

South Jordan, UT 84095

http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/PodCampSLC

It’s a BarCamp for new media: blogging, podcasting, vlogging, etc. If you are a blogger, this is the event that you really want to be part of.

If you don’t know what BarCamp is, here’s a video that explains it:

Make sure you sign up to attend (it’s free) at Upcoming.org