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May 17

My Google: Prediction for a Google enabled portal

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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 ;)

3 Responses to “My Google: Prediction for a Google enabled portal”

  1. Edmon Begoli Says:

    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.

  2. Robert McIntosh Says:

    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.

  3. tech-guide admin Says:

    100% correct – “personalise your homepage see google labs”, google on the com address followed by /ig”

    Sorry – not allowed to post the link

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