My Way(Ask Jeeves)
directory, search, chat, email, portfolio; no banners, no
popups
2 October 2004
Portal Webliography
2 December 2001
collect, organize, disseminate pointers to information &
examples
of user-driven & customizable interfaces to sets of Internet
resources
-- portals. Pointers to Internet directories or search engines
that are
not user-driven &/or customizable are not included here.
Reconfiguring the Library Systems Environment(portal: Libraries and the Academy, 8,2) April 2008
Scout Portal
Toolkit
6
September 2001
for organizations that want to share knowledge & resources
assembled via World Wide Web without making a substantial
investment
in technical resources or expertise; three facets - Portal
Interface,
the Intelligent
Metadata Tool, & Portal Toolkit packaging itself; open source
software; MySQL database with Dublin Core compliant metadata
default
fields;
cross-field searching; metadata field editor, allows portal
administrators
to add, delete, or disable metadata fields;
discussion
forum options; Version 1.1.1 of this turnkey open source portal
software
released February 2003; Dublin Core fields modified
easily; flexible interface(through
separation of PHP & HTML), privilege settings, workflow
management
recommender system, reader ratings & comments; search engine;
accessibility; requires Web server that supports PHP & MySQL,
preferably running Linux &
Apache; supports image metadata field(s), simplified data
import/export, color & logo customization, improved operation
under
PHP safe
mode, & bug fixes
Start
pages(easy-to-use,
customizable, with latest news & add interactive
content)
14 September 2007
10
Ajax
start pages to consider: Netvibes, Pageflakes,
Protopage,
iGoogle, My Yahoo, Inbox, ItsAStart, Eskobo, Favoor,
24eyes;