May 17
Google has a tradition of reinventing a service that Yahoo! already has (Gmail, Maps).
I would be willing to bet that GPortal is around the corner. How will Google be able to reinvent that bad boy? This is where Ajax comes in.
Ajax finally delivers on the vision of the portal/portlets. None of the annoying lifecycle issues, and change pages when in different modes… now the components can really have a nice lifecycle and the portlets can change in the page itself.
There will also be a nicer way to rearrange your portal (like this example).
I can’t wait to see it ;)
May 17th, 2005 at 10:00 pm
I think you got it – both with GPortal, and with
the AJAX (-like) technology that will finally bring some life to those boring, static portlets.
As you probably know Google moved towards personalized content by providing the Google news personalization.
May 18th, 2005 at 8:21 am
That example is really cool. I’ve been working on a javascript portlet API on and off for a short while now. I work with WebSphere portal on a daily basis and it just a real pain, so my first trek down the AJAX path was an app that looked like a portal and that lead me to building a portlet-like API in javascript.
May 19th, 2005 at 5:43 pm
100% correct – “personalise your homepage see google labs”, google on the com address followed by /ig”
Sorry – not allowed to post the link