Hey DUCerooooos,
Thanks to Anna for the Summary she compiled.
best,
CyberCowGrrl
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From: "Anna Carts" <acarts@eeicom.com>
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Original question:
>I'm compiling a list of portal sites and I'm hoping to generate some ideas
>from the DCWW gang. If you have a favorite portal site or two, please send
>the URL(s) to me offlist and I will post a summary.
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Thanks to everyone who responded!
Anna
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Seven general portals
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<http://www.metacrawler.com>
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Three niche-portals
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The Educational CyberPlayGround
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com>
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One mock-up of how a portal site might be layed out:
<http://www.iconnect.com/mock.cfm>
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And finally a list that someone sent with lots of portal resources:
Yahoo's Top 100
http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/0001/100best.html
Yahoo's Top news portals
http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/0001/100news.html#portal
http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/0001/100news.html#tech
http://slashdot.org/
ZDNet Top Portals
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2354132,00.html
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2327801,00.html
Best High-tech news site (Yahoo)
http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/0001/100money.html#technews
Top 50 sites rated by MediaMetrix
http://www.mediametrix.com/PressRoom/Press_Releases/03_21_00.html
What a corporate portal can offer
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2327802,00.html
Vertical Portals (by PC Magazine)
http://www.zdnet.com/
http://www.creativepro.com/
http://www.myprimetime.com/
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The Educational CyberPlayGround
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com>
Diversity University Collaboratory Mailing List
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/diversity.html>
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USA Today Hot Site & MSNBC.com Hot Site Pick Award
USA Today Best Bets For Educators Award
Philadelphia Inquirer http://education.philly.com/
The crisp and clean playground walks technophobic
teachers and parents through crystal-clear instructions.
Provides teachers, parents, librarians, home
schoolers and regular folks a "webliography" with
over 6000 links to pertinent topics and subtopics.
Cool choice of site maps to browse from.
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