Are Portals dead? We saw a surge in Portal from 1999-2005
or so. Then, at least my opinion is that the
buzz around Portals kind of died. Not as many
people talked about it - and we did not see any
major technological advances in the Portal technoogy.
Now I know I might not be making too many friends
here, or people might disagree with my view on
this - but you will agree that Portal was not
the HOT button anymore. Now we started to explore Web
2.0 and social sharing.
It is important to realize - that the key enabler
to Web
2.0 is just a next generation portal. Portals
are the next generation of information sharing, and
Web 2.0 technologies just enables is better then
any technology did. So in some sense, the YouTubes
are nothing but Portals on steriods.
A Portal helps streamline access to several different
back-end application (many times legacy apps) and
to different and customized content - from one or
more content providers (CMS, RSS, XML etc). Users
see and work with the data and business processes
based on their personal preferences and access rights.
A classic and widely known example of a Portal is My
Yahoo which is now on the cutting edge of what
Web 2.0 offers - many might argue, and I agree, that
Yahoo is far ahead of even Google in terms of Web
2.0.
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