Topic: portals

Written on April 9th, 2007 by Mojo about portals without comments

Is it Hot or Not?

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Written on December 7th, 2005 by Mojo about local, portals without comments

The local heat is on

Everyone’s going local! Google now offers local Froogle search results on a map. so you can see what those stores are selling, without having to go there.

Couple new players in this field are Judy’s Book and TrueLocal

Written on November 2nd, 2005 by Mojo about microsoft, portals without comments

Microsoft has too many portals

After playing around with My MSN and Start, Microsoft has now released Live.com. That’s 3 portals that do pretty much the same thing as far as the average user is concerned (well OK Live.com has some cool web 2.0 ajax ideas). There are also a few other portal type pages in the Microsoft realm including Search, the Microsoft page itself, the Windows portal and the Xbox portal. Compare all those with just one portal each for Yahoo, Google and Apple. The main difference is that these companies have a single point of access to all of their products and services. Can you say c o n s o l i d a t e? Bill gates should probably read “The art of not confusing your users”. Until that gets published he can try Why Business People Speak Like Idiots.

I guess it will be another year before MS decides to release yet another redundant portal with an expensive domain name. Now I’m really beginning to wonder if the giant guerilla can save itself. Another reason why being small is a bonus these days. The latest live.com release is going to somehow tie into a new platform. Wow! Best of luck with that!

Written on September 2nd, 2005 by Mojo about family, portals without comments

First Searchable Directory of Hurricane Katrina victims

The super smart and caring people at the EarthLink have created a life saver of a tool for Hurricane Katrina victims. You can simply enter your status and whereabouts, if you are a victim; or search for your loved ones to make sure they are OK. Visit Hurricane Help: http://katrina.earthlink.net/ The site also has compiled a comprehensive list of other websites that store Katrina Victims’ information.

Written on April 14th, 2005 by Mojo about portals, yahoo without comments

Yahoo News Beta

Yahoo News Beta is a nice redesign with a nice set of features and upgrades of the historic Yahoo news service. The UI is very simple and uncluttered. As with Google News you can add/move the categories of news available. Within each category you can tab through sub-category news providers. The “My Sources” tab in each category allows you to choose and personalize your sources. Also in the same tab you can hide/show the content of each source by clicking on the source name. In the full page for each category you can choose to see only Headlines or Headlines and summary. There is also a nice weather addition on the main page. The downside is that the special report and breaking news section on top are not editable.

The most notable addition is the integration Y!Q into news context. When you click a purple arrow, a box loads open with related headlines and products. Although this is great for promoting Yahoo! features, I have yet to see the user benefits of this feature.