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- Exploring the New Personalization Features in ASP.NET 2.0-Level 200
- This session is based on the Beta 1 version of ASP.NET 2.0. The new personalization features, and the Profile class, make it easy for ASP.NET 2.0 developers to store data about their users - shopping cart, personal information, and more - enabling enhanced customization. This webcast shows you how to...
- Tags: Microsoft ASP.NET, Personalization, Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, .Net, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- metaio Adds Personalization and Realism to E-Commerce
- The company wanted to make consumers' online shopping even more engaging and informative, many e-commerce retailers are seeking to enhance their Web sites with multimedia features such as video clips, audio files and photo slide shows so that shoppers can "Try before they buy." Munich, Germany-based software provider metaio GmbH...
- Tags: Software, Personalization, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, E-business, Metaio, Web Technology, Retail, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
- Case studies
- MSDN Webcast: ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Personalization (Level 200)
- To keep your Web sites competitive, you are likely challenged to increase the levels of personalization and authentication. What if you could do both and work more efficiently at the same time? This webcast helps to discover the new membership and personalization features in Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 that make it...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft ASP.NET, Personalization, Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
- Webcasts
- MSDN Webcast: MSDN Events Reloaded: Membership and Personalization in ASP.NET 2.0 (Level 200)
- This webcast will show Membership services and security controls and how they can provide the web site with secure user authentication and protect its contents from anonymous users with minimum coding on the part. Using login and LoginView controls one will avoid writing the same login pages over and over...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft ASP.NET, Personalization, Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- MSDN Webcast: Exploring the New Personalization Features in ASP.NET 2.0 (Level 200)
- The new personalization features, and the Profile class, make it easy for ASP.NET 2.0 developers to store data about their users - shopping cart, personal information, and more - enabling enhanced customization. A person doesn't even need to write the data access layer oneself - the Profile class takes care...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft ASP.NET, Personalization, Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0
- Webcasts
- Secure ID Card Solutions: At the Forefront of Document Personalization for Government Agencies
- Datatrac specializes in the secure personalization of identification documents and cards for government agencies. Thee have designed a fully automated document/card personalization system and housed it in facilities that meet all government security requirements. The system is operated by an experienced staff that has passed rigorous training and government security...
- Tags: Security, Agency, ID Card, Government, Datatrac Information Services Inc., Personalization
- White papers
- 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
- Google and the quest for personalization
- It's a question that's as old as Computer Science itself. Can we construct the perfect intelligent machine? While the perfect intelligent machine should more than just ace the Turing Test, this article at Technology Review on a Q/A session with Peter Norvig, Google's Director of Research, seems to suggest that...
- Tags: Google Inc., Personalization, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Personalize ASP.NET 2.0 sites with profiles
- The ASP.NET 2.0 Profile system allows you to easily store user-specific information. Learn more about setting up and using this new feature in your applications. Personalization is a key component of most Web applications these days. TechRepublic and Amazon are good examples of sites that remember certain...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft ASP.NET, Middleware, Databases, Tony Patton, .NET, Enterprise software, ASP.NET 2.0 Profile system, tool, personalization, Profile system, server, database, ASP.NET 2.0, .NET Newsletter, Environment, Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, .NET Framework 2.0, Listing C, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Data Management
- Technical articles 2006-12-21
- 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
- Personalize ASP.NET 2.0 sites with profiles
- Personalization is a key component of most Web applicationsthese days. TechRepublic and Amazon are good examples of sites that remembercertain user attributes. Providing such functionality with ASP.NET 1.x requiredsome extra work and the use of the Session object, but version 2.0 simplifiesthe personalization process.ProfilingThe ASP.NET 2.0 Profile system allows you...
- Tags: ASP.NET 2.0, database, Microsoft ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, personalization, server, Storage, Tony Patton
- Technical articles 2006-12-21
- Programming Visual Basic 2005: Personalization
- One of the hallmarks of a professional web site is the ability for users to personalize the site to their individual needs. Personalization means that the site remembers the user and the user's preferences, profile information, and so forth. In addition to allowing users to personalize the site, the reader...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic, O'Reilly Media Inc., Personalization, Programming
- Book chapters 2005-09-02
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