DeeKnow’s Grotto

Personalisation and Privacy Survey was conducted by the group "Personalisation Consortium" last year and results show that over 70% of users prefer that a site remembers them when they return.  The survey asks a lot of ecommerce related questions but the results and the press release make interesting reading especially on the kinds of information people are happy to divulge.

1:26:06 PM  

WaikCookie is Installed and ready for use on Asterix and Obelix.  Check out the email from Jamie re the installed modules and use of their methods.

12:17:53 PM  

Protecting the User's Mailbox - Jakob Nielson's latest alertbox article talks about no overcrowding users inboxes needlessly as well as including mention of privacy policies in the messages you do send them re what you plan to do with the data you have about them.  This is something we should consider with the form-handler auto-responses.

12:03:27 PM  

Musical Machines Gain Recognition is talked about in a SlashDot article today, mentions a couple of articles and loads of responses from folks using computers and s/w for generating music which is someting I've been reading about for awhile now.  May be time for action.

11:41:18 AM  

Missing Asteroids Champion To Receive Posthumous Award - Scott Safran -- who would now be 35 years old -- scored a world record 41,336,440 points on Asteroids at the All-American Billiard Company in Newtown, Pennsylvania on November 13, 1982. At that time, his accomplishment was recognized as the world record by both Atari Games and Twin Galaxies. Safran's score remains the longest standing world record to be held on a major video game title.

11:25:20 AM  

Cocoon Performance - looks like there are some scalability issues according to a postee to the cocoon-dev list ... "Every new release rises up the same question - Cocoon doesn't scale, what can I do? Often we can solve this problem, but we do that very redundant." and then goes on to mention he plans to write a performance/tuning guide.  Will be interesting to follow-up on this when it comes out.

8:40:10 AM