Cool - thanks for the pointer to Eureka Streams. ...

2010-08-10T00:14:48.450+01:00

Cool - thanks for the pointer to Eureka Streams. Reminiscent in many ways of Elgg, which in its own way is probably another contender. Like the dashboard in Eureka Streams a lot :-)

In a purely Google universe, something else worth taking note of is the Google Secure Data connector - http://code.google.com/securedataconnector/

At the University of York we also missed the boat ...

2010-08-09T16:18:17.923+01:00

At the University of York we also missed the boat and are finally looking seriously at a portal. My preference is for Google Gadgets that can be embedded in lots of places, including but not limited to a portal. This shifts the emphasis from the portal dashboard itself - which may or may not be used or configured much by users - to creating the gadgets with the key content. Then (in theory) these can be added to existing well established portals around your institution, like your VLE or your library portal and so on.

I'm on shaky ground as this is all theory and I know very little about good containers of Google Gadgets to use an a portal in practice. One recent entrant that may be worth a look is eurekastreams. (http://www.eurekastreams.org/) The WS02 Gadget server is a commercial alternative (http://wso2.com/products/gadget-server/). I think there are others.

I like Wookie, but I think there's far more activity behind OpenSocial and gadgets IMO.

Comments on Martin Hamilton's blog: Taking a fresh look at portals

Cool - thanks for the pointer to Eureka Streams. ...

At the University of York we also missed the boat ...