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;