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60% of Americans feel uneasy about Web site personalization

Nearly 60% of Americans questioned in a Harris Interactive poll said they were uneasy when Web sites use information about personal online activity to tailor advertisements or content. by AM

Tags: Web, Personalization, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, AM

Blog posts 2008-04-14

IBM demos 'On Demand Workplace'; Will Web 2.0 deliver productivity gains?

IBM demoed its enterprise 2.0 experiments Tuesday including its On Demand Workplace--an application that's part intranet, part Facebook and part Web service that becomes an interface to legacy systems. IBM executives held court with a handful of bloggers, writers and analysts at its New York offices. The presentations, currently...

Tags: Web, Workplace, Personalization, IBM Corp., Hennessey, ODW, RSS, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Web Services, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-18

I, Me and My Phone: Identity and Personalization Using Mobile Devices

This paper presents a framework for ubiquitous authentication using commodity mobile devices. The solution is intended to be a replacement for the proliferation of physical authentication artifacts that users typically have to carry today. The paper describes the authentication protocol and its prototypical implementation for a solution designed for the...

Tags: Solution, Phone, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mobile, Personalization, Mobile Device, Authentication, Identity, Security

White papers 2007-11-08

Personalization With Application Settings in Visual Basic

This paper discusses the new Application Settings feature in Windows Forms 2.0 using C#. However, the application settings feature is also available in Visual Basic. The author continues the exploration of this new feature, focusing on how the developer can automatically bind the application settings to the Windows Forms controls,...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic, Author, Jupitermedia Corp., Personalization, Application Setting, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Development Tools, C#, Programming Languages, Operating Systems, Software, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2007-06-07

On Enriching Ajax With Semantics: The Web Personalization Use Case

With the dawn of Ajax the capabilities of tracking user behavior multiplied. The same holds for the capabilities of adapting the user interface in a Web browser. To provide meaningful adaptation, the events, context and elements of an Ajaxified Portal must be given meaning. This paper shows the use of...

Tags: Web, Use Case, Adaptation, Personalization, Ontology, AJAX, Portals, Strategy, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Management

White papers 2007-03-16

Integrating ASP.NET Personalization With C1WebSchedule

The 2007 v1 release of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise introduced two new components, C1WebSchedule and C1WebCalendar, for developing Outlook-style scheduling applications for the Web. C1WebCalendar provides navigation and date range selection for an associated C1WebSchedule control, which displays appointments in day, week, work week, or monthly views. Although C1WebSchedule includes a...

Tags: Storage, Microsoft ASP.NET, Personalization, C1WebCalendar, .Net, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-03-16

Will My Yahoo make personalization matter?

Will My Yahoo make personalization matter?Personalization takes effortMost little guys, like me, who like to follow stock markets have discovered the great power of Yahoo Finance. Making the leap to My Yahoo takes a little effort, but is certainly worth it for people in finance. But, most people...

Tags: Investment, Yahoo! 360, personalization, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-08

uiOne: Using Device Personalization to Promote Mobile Data Services

This paper explores how the mobile device User Interface UI has evolved to create intuitive user experiences, along with groundbreaking, new applications that have vastly increased device utility. In particular, this paper addresses the benefits that operators, Original Equipment Manufacturers OEMs, developers, and subscribers achieve with the customization capabilities of...

Tags: Mobile, Qualcomm Inc., Personalization, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2007-01-26

A Study on the Effects of Personalization and Task Information on Implicit Feedback Performance

While Implicit Relevance Feedback IRF algorithms exploit users' interactions with information to customize support offered to users of search systems, it is unclear how individual and task differences impact the effectiveness of such algorithms. This paper describes a study on the effect on retrieval performance of using additional information about...

Tags: Algorithm, Performance, Personalization, Engineering

White papers 2006-11-11

Microsoft Office 2007 beta 2 (technical refresh)

Microsoft's latest sneak peek at its 2007 update to the Office software package unveils a much more customizable interface for Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Access. As Microsoft fine-tunes the Office 2007 system in preparation for its delayed release, expected early next year (though that is not yet set in...

Tags: Word processors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Corp.

Product reviews 2006-09-13

How Does Your Company Present Itself?: Personalization, Consistency, and Persuasion Across Customer Touchpoints

Companies spend millions of dollars producing and distributing documents and communications that fail to capitalize on what they know about their customers. Oftentimes, these customer communications fall woefully short of reinforcing brand, developing customer loyalty, and providing a unique customer experience. These communications tell customers what they owe, what was...

Tags: StreamServe Inc., Communication, Personalization, Branding, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance

White papers 2006-08-24

Trip Router With Individualized Preferences (TRIP): Incorporating Personalization Into Route Planning

Popular route planning systems (Windows Live Local, Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps, etc.) generate driving directions using a static library of roads and road attributes. They ignore both the time at which a route is to be traveled and, more generally, the preferences of the drivers they serve. This paper presents...

Tags: Router, Preference, Personalization, GPS, Microsoft Windows, Routers & Switches, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Networking, Hardware

White papers 2006-04-04

Exploiting IP Networks to Create Sticky Services: Driving Revenue and Loyalty With Greater Simplicity, Richness and Personalization

In pursuit of new revenues and competitive advantage, all service providers are looking for new services to offer fixed and mobile customers. At the same time, pressure to simplify networks and lower costs is leading service providers to deploy smarter, all-IP networks. These, in turn, offer new application and service...

Tags: Revenue, Network, IP, Service Provider, Personalization, Alcatel, IP Network, Business Services, Networking, Telecommunications

White papers 2006-03-01

Personalized Interactions With Reality Based Interfaces

This paper describes a perspective on the evolution of HCI toward personalized interfaces, moving toward unique customized interfaces that possess expressive qualities defined by their end-users. The increasing availability of personal portals and configurable skins, coupled with the means to distribute personalization, allow a wealth of novel interface mappings to...

Tags: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Personalization, Interface, Portals, Internet

White papers 2006-01-07

Citizen Relationship Management (ZRM) - The Challenge and the Promise

Citizen Relationship Management holds out the promise of a much more effective, efficient and simple government at the service of its citizens. ZRM borrows heavily from Customer Relationship Management CRM. The latter has been defined as "customer-centric business strategies that optimize the long-term value of selected customers." Citizen Relationship Management...

Tags: Personalization, CRM, ZRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Government, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

White papers 2005-08-09

A Fuzzy Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Technique for Web Personalization

Collaborative filtering CF is a popular technique used in web personalization for building recommender systems, which predict the preferences of an active user, based on the preferences of past like-minded users. CF techniques are either memory- based or model-based. While the former is more accurate, its scalability compared to model-based...

Tags: Technique, Web, Personalization, Collaborative Filtering, Productivity

White papers 2005-08-01

The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary?

On May 17th, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary?" Paul Saffo, director and Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future click here for my audio interview with Paul prior to the event, was the...

Tags: Audio, Media, Broadband, Personalization, Entertainment, Wireless Broadband Connectivity, Advertising & Promotion, Broadband Internet, Podcasts, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wireless, Marketing, Internet, Networking, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2005-05-19

Personalization comes to brick-and-mortar stores

Personalization comes to brick-and-mortar storesMessage has been deleted.The end to cashiers?If this software can "guess" what you will order, why not go all the way and use RFID tags and have the food order placed when you walk in? You could walk in a store, have a "confirmation" of order...

Tags: Food & Beverage, personalization

Discussion threads 2005-04-25

Taking Music to the Next Level of Mobility and Personalization

Sony StreamMan is an exciting new service that responds to a rapidly increasing consumer demand for personal music entertainment on the mobile phone. As well as offering instant access to a vast library of music on demand, StreamMan also allows users to download songs to their mobile phones, access special...

Tags: Mobile, Mobility, Cell Phone, Personalization, Alcatel, Entertainment, Music, Sony StreamMan, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2005-03-01

Google takes searching personally

Google takes searching personallyGoogle AlertI read that Google's new 'Web Alerts' are similar to the well-known Gogole Alert (www.googlealert.com) service based on the Google API.Had a look at the two services. It seems that both are straightforward to use, but the more established Google Alert offers greater user control and...

Tags: E-mail, Printers, Findory, second-best, personalization, customization, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-03-29