Re: UKNM: Re: Portals?

[Aidan Cook]

> and it doesn't help when everyone starts calling their sites portals. As I

> understand it, a portal site is trying to do everything - directories,

> searching, email, chat, forums, entertainment, news, weather, homepages,

> ads, pagers, personalisation, shopping, and whatever else


erm, aren't these called 'bookmarks'? 


Unless a 'pxxxxl' (i can't bring myself to write it) provides information

which is unobtainable elsewhere, then I'll just edit my own list of

bookmarks - and if the site provides that sort of information, then I'll

go there without having to be lured by a list of links. 


something like www.iii.co.uk is an excellent example of a what I think a

portal (damn, wrote it) might/should be, but I am more than willing to get

lynched for my opinions by those of you who have better ones. Portals

targeted at specific interest-groups are always going to batter the more

general "here's some stuff on the internet" options. 


Actually, if that content could be provided to those groups by some

form of technology 'pushing' the informa.......oooops, sorry, last year's

word.


reg's


Aidan

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