Personal Portals and Communities

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Personal Portals and Communities

• Personal Portals, Meeting Places

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Portals

• A web portal is a site that functions as a point
  of access to information on the World Wide Web.
• Portals present information from diverse sources
  in a unified way. Popular portals are MSN, Yahoo,
  and AOL.
• Aside from the search engine standard, web
  portals offer other services such as news, stock
  prices, infotainment and various other features.
• Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide
  a consistent look and feel with access control
  and procedures for multiple applications, which
  otherwise would have been different entities
  altogether.

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Personal Business Portals

• A personal portal is a site on the World Wide Web
  that typically provides personalized capabilities
  to its visitors, providing a pathway to other
  content.
• It is designed to use distributed applications,
  different numbers and types of middleware and
  hardware to provide services from a number of
  different sources.
• In addition, business portals are designed to
  share collaboration in workplaces. A further
  business-driven requirement of portals is that
  the content be able to work on multiple platforms
  such as personal computers, personal digital
  assistants (PDAs), and cell phones.

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Yahoo

• Yahoo! Inc. is an American public corporation and
  global Internet services company.
• It provides a range of products and services
  including a web portal, a search engine, the
  Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and posting.
  
• It was founded by Stanford University graduate
  students Jerry Yang and David Filo in January of
  1994. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
  California.

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• According to Web traffic analysis companies
  (including Comscore, Alexa Internet and
  Netcraft), Yahoo! has been one of the most
  visited websites on the Internet, with more than
  130 million unique users.
• The global network of Yahoo! websites received
  3.4 billion page views per day on average as of
  October 2007, making it one of the most visited
  U.S. websites

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My Yahoo

• My own Yahoo Portal.

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YouTube

• YouTube is a video sharing website where users
  can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube
  was created in mid February 2005.
• YiuTube uses Adobe Flash technology to display a
  wide variety of video content, including movie
  clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as
  amateur content such as videoblogging and short
  original videos.

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• In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it
  had reached a deal to acquire the company for
  US1.65 billion in Google stock. The deal closed
  on November 13, 2006.
• Unregistered users can watch most videos on the
  site, while registered users are permitted to
  upload an unlimited number of videos

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MySpace

• MySpace is a social networking website offering
  an interactive, user-submitted network of
  friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups,
  photos, music and videos internationally.
• MySpace is headquartered in Beverly Hills,
  California, USA, where it shares an office
  building with its immediate owner, Fox
  Interactive Media in turn, the owner of Fox
  Interactive and therefore MySpace, News
  Corporation, is headquartered in New York City.

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• According to Alexa Internet, MySpace is currently
  the world's sixth most popular English-language
  website and the sixth most popular website in any
  language, and the third most popular website in
  the United States, though it has topped the chart
  on various weeks.
• The service has gradually gained more popularity
  than similar websites to achieve nearly 80 of
  visits to online social networking websites. It
  has become an increasingly influential part of
  contemporary popular culture, especially in
  English speaking countries

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FaceBook

• Facebook is a social networking website that
  allows people to communicate with their friends
  and exchange information.
• Launched on February 4, 2004, Facebook was
  founded by Mark Zuckerberg, a former member of
  the Harvard Class of 2006 and former Ardsley High
  School student.
• Initially the membership was restricted to
  students of Harvard College. It was subsequently
  expanded to other Boston area schools (Boston
  College, Boston University, Harvard, Northeastern
  University, Tufts University), Rochester,
  Stanford, NYU, Northwestern, and all Ivy League
  schools within two months. Many individual
  universities were added in rapid succession over
  the next year.

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• Eventually, people with a university (e.g .edu,
  .ac.uk, etc.) email address from institutions
  across the globe were eligible to join. Networks
  were then initiated for high schools and some
  large companies.
• Since September 11, 2006, Facebook has been made
  available to users with any email address, if
  they are within a certain age range. Users can
  select to join one or more participating
  networks, such as a high school, place of
  employment, or geographic region.

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• As of October 2007, the website had the largest
  number of registered users among college-focused
  sites with over 42 million active members
  worldwide and expects to pass 60 million users by
  the end of the year (also from non-collegiate
  networks).
• From September 2006 to September 2007 it
  increased its ranking from 60th to 7th most
  visited web site, and was the number one site for
  photos in the United States, ahead of public
  sites such as Flickr, with over 8.5 million
  photos uploaded daily

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Technorati

• Technorati is an Internet search engine for
  searching blogs, competing with Google, Yahoo and
  IceRocket.
• As of August 2007, Technorati indexes over 94
  million weblogs.
• The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to
  the technological version of literati or
  intellectuals.

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TechRepublic

• A resource for IT professionals.

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LinkedIn

• LinkedIn is a business-oriented networking site
  (comparable to a social networking site), mainly
  used for professional networking.
• As of October 2007, it had more than 15 million
  registered users, spanning 150 industries and
  more than 400 economic regions (as classified by
  the service).

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