What Portals Should Be

What Portals Should Be

All of which makes me wonder if this couldn’t be the future of intranet portals. I suppose the business behind PageFlakes could be convinced to sell their backend to a company for internal use (if that’s not already their business model). I honestly have no idea how long it would take to produce flakes for internal data (e.g., inventory numbers, etc.). I also don’t know how practical it would be to create RSS feeds for much of that data. Could an RSS feed stay updated with information from a sales database? If so, the Ajax approach to portals applied by PageFlakes could signify a quicker, cheaper approach to traditional portals like Plumtree.

Pretty interesting commentary and interesting thoughts. As I played with some Yahoo! Gadgets the other day I wondered about how they might be used on a larger sale, and this is the same concept. If some basic frameworks can be created and standaradization (such as XML) emerges, we could see the growth of portals all over the place. Then there will be true power in portals.

22 March, 2006 |

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