Portals

I've been thinking a lot lately about the old dot-com idea of being a portal. That idea hasn't really gone away. Yahoo! is the portal for a lot a people - if you're on the West Coast and subscribe to SBC DSL, you get that Yahoo! browser with the Yahoo! page as your home. A lot of systems are wired with MSN. And what about that other wildly popular pillar of the internet, eBay, what are they up to? Even Amazon wants to be your portal. Like most people I know though, Google is my portal. Does that count? Are portals still important? How can portals be redefined - is this really how the human race will connect to the internet?
- posted by Joe @ 2:27 AM