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AmEx Heeds Call of Liberty
American Express and America Online Time Warner Netscape have joined Sun's Liberty Alliance, the planned alternative to Microsoft's planned Passport authentication system. (12/5/2001 at ZDNet)

Build a PHP Switcher
Using PHP and cookies to build a stylesheet switcher - allowing users to select the stylesheet they use on your site. (10/13/2002 at A List Apart)

Cookies and Session Tracking
An excerpt from "A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0", showing how to track users with cookies. (9/20/2001 at Zend)

Creating a User Login Feature with ColdFusion
How to use Cold Fusion to set up a login system for your website - so you can track your users and personalize things for them. (11/21/2000 at WebMonkey)

Next Wave of the Web: Building the Perfect Radio Station, Part 1
The dream of a perfect Net-based radio station, which would let users access personalized audio and video content from anywhere, at any time. (1/29/2001 at WDVL)

Next Wave of the Web: Building the Perfect Radio Station, Part 2
A look at existing websites that allow some customizable audio content. (2/26/2001 at WDVL)

The Perl You Need to Know Part 17: Personalization Methods Part 1 With a Look at Cookies
Personalizing your website by letting users save preferences in cookies. (9/18/2000 at WDVL)

Personalization Without Popularity
Allaire's chief scientist, Azer Bestavros, wants to develop personalization methods that compare item attributes to user preferences, rather than recommending to consumers what "similar" people bought. (3/1/2001 at eCompany)

PHP Enabled Sessions
A gentle introduction to PHP's built-in session-handling functions. (11/5/2001 at eDevCafe)

Session Hijacking, Cold Fusion, Dynamic Proxies
How to deal with dynamic proxies when trying to maintain user sessions using cookies and session variables. (10/14/2000 at evolt.org)

Session Management in Perl
Using Perl and cookies to manage user sessions, specifically with the Apache::Session module. (7/12/2001 at builder.com)

The JSP Files (Part 6): State of Grace
Maintaining state using JSP, through cookies and server-based sessions, to faciliate tracking client requests. (3/26/2001 at DevShed)

You Own Your Own Metadata
Unless companies give customers complete, downloadable information on how they're using the companies' websites - marketing data in XML - they risk those customers leaving for sites willing to provide transportable personal information. (3/14/2001 at Feed)

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