Portal
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Definition
- A portal is a door or entrance ...
- A web portal is a website that offers various services through a centralized interface.
Typology
- Information portals: news, blogs, etc.
- Transaction portals: sales
- Collaboration portals
Most popular kinds
This is not a strict classification. Some of the entries may also have traits from other categories....
Information portals
- Large Internet access portals, such as Yahoo or MSN
- Information portals such as CNN
- Participatory information portals such as Slahsdot
- Experience sharing portals such as epinions
Commerce and service
- Commerce Portals, such as Amazon
- Service portals, such as [Swiss railways]
Intranets
- Enterprise portals (frameworks for integrating information, applications, and processes across organizational boundaries)
- Campus-wide information and adminstration systems
- Learning management systems
Community
- Collaborative encyclopedias such as the Wikipedia
- Community of practice portals such as the [TECFA portal]
- Community of interest portals such [linux].
Technology-based typology
- Enterprise portals
- Content management systems
- C3MS (Community potals)
- Wikis
- Blogs (at least some that contain more than just diary entries)