October 31, 2003

Portals

I found an interesting article in the new issue of the journal Ariadne:

Paul Miller, Towards a typology for portals. An excerpt:

Look around you. They're everywhere. Everyone who is anyone has a portal, even if in reality that means no more than paying some graphic designer an insane amount of money to knock up a new graphic for your old Web site that says 'Portal'. We can only assume that, for the corporate sector at least, someone at PwC, Accenture, KPMG, McKinsey or one of the others decided that portals were cool and started sticking them into their PowerPoint as another thing you could pay them to build for you, in order to turn your company around, and make it world-beating. Before we knew it, the portal plague was out of the lab, replicating and mutating like anything.