Simeon Says

I have never used craigs list before.  I knew what it was, but
have not had an occassion to buy or sell much.  Today I visited
the groups section of the site to post an announcement of our upcoming
PDX CFUG Meeting feature Spike of the CFEclipse project.  While
posting I noticed a checkbox which opted this message in to an
opportunity for increased viewing.  Increased viewing where you
might ask?

INTO OUTER SPACE!!!

Yes thats right, they are planning to beam a bundle of ads into space on May 15, 2005.  "WHY:
It seemed fitting for craigslist users to
be the first to beam internet postings and classified ads into deep
space."  Not only are they planning this, but they have already
succesfully launched 138,179 in conjunction with the Atlas launch at
Cape Canaveral on march 14 1005.

So dont delay! post your add today for a chance to have it viewed by peoples of other worlds!

I found this over on slashdot today. 
PIE ( Persistent Identification Element) is a technology that uses
Marcormedia Flash to track users without cookies.  According to a survey at Jupiter Research, 58% of web surfers delete their cookies, so PIE allows an ongoing method of tracking those folks.

As a user I dont wish to be tracked in any sense, and the article links
to a page in Macromedia’s site which explains how to disable such
tracking.  However, as a web devloper I have been involved in
several projects to report on web usage to better understand how our
users make use of our sites.  So I have been on both sides of the
tracking table.

How do you other developers out there feel about such tactics.

I am pleased to announce today that I launched a new site for my employer.  FidelityTransitions.com
is the second private label site that we have launched, and will be
backed by a very large advertising budget by the folks at Fidelity.

Although the site has been launched on the CFMX 7 platform it does not
make use of many of the new features.  We are making use of the
Application Events, and some CF Reports features in the backend.

Another peice of information of note is that the site is Fusebox. 
That is something I am comitted to and I utlized the benifits of the FB
framework in this site.