Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of pre-login \"soft personalization\"?

2009-08-18 Thread elana
Something I do regularly is visit sites in firefox (my main browser. I don't clear out my cache that often) and safari (I clear out my cache every time I use it). I t's really interesting to see the differences when going to the same site in both browsers (with and without cookies). This works e

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of pre-login \"soft personalization\"?

2009-08-15 Thread Julia Slavin
Hi Audrey, I would think of the sort of data that you can you find out on a visitor w/o logging him/her onto the system... * Geo: Language, Country: Can help serving the relevant content, for example - translated into the origin language, event and promotions relevant to the country etc. * Tech:

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of pre-login \"soft personalization\"?

2009-08-14 Thread John Yuda
I'm not sure if I'd call it personalization, but I've been to sites that check the browser language preferences via the HTTP header and serve different things based on that (usually just serving in the correct language, but between language preferences and IP, you can make a guess as to where the u

[IxDA Discuss] Examples of pre-login \"soft personalization\"?

2009-08-14 Thread Audrey Crane
I'm looking for examples of personalization that happens when a user has not yet logged in, either via cookies, geo location by IP address, or flash cookies ("local shared objects"). Examples I have so far are: - Amazon's home page, if you've ever logged in before - Google local results in standa