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Google’s portal igoogle.com. Yahoo’s portal my.yahoo.com. Microsoft’s portal my.live.com. Today’s Portals have similar features: The user logs in with user/password (has an identity) A selectable theme Ability to create and name pages ( tabs) Ability to Search , find, and add portlets
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Google’s portaligoogle.com Yahoo’s portalmy.yahoo.com Microsoft’s portalmy.live.com • Today’s Portals have similar features: • The user logs in with user/password (has an identity) • A selectable theme • Ability to create and name pages (tabs) • Ability to Search, find, and add portlets • Ability to organize and rearrange portlets • Ability to “share” parts of their portal content The majority of Web properties students use including Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, etc. allow personalization and control.
A student portal case study: Harvard When Harvard rolled out a traditional student portal, students being disappointed in the features and lack of personalization developed their own (Crimson Connect) using Netvibes. Crimson Connect not only has Harvard-specific portlets, but leverages off an Ecosystem of thousands of other services like Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, MySpace, etc. that all can integrate into a student’s personalized page.
www.netvibes.com https://mummrah.ucsd.edu/public/tabfeeds.html