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10 May 2006 ~ Comments

Much Ado About Squidoo

I recently covered Squidoo and mentioned that I had set up a “Lens” to see what kind of response I would get out of it. Within the last couple of days, Michael from TechCrunch wrote an article predicting its demise. Today, Pete from Mashable picked up the discussion. The census seems to [...]

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07 May 2006 ~ Comments

Texas Longhorns – Zimbio

I created a Zimbio portal for my beloved University of Texas Longhorns. It will be interesting to see if I can get any user participation. I’m curious to see just how useful other people will find this type of resource.
Read more at www.zimbio.com/portal/T…
Tags: Texas Longhorns, texas, [...]

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07 May 2006 ~ Comments

A New Kind of Portal II

No sooner than I post on Zimbio do I find yet another interesting take on “portals”. This time it’s called Squidoo and I think I like it too, albeit for different reasons. Squidoo does things a bit differently than does Zimbio. First, Squidoo portals, or “lenses”, are maintained by a single person [...]

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07 May 2006 ~ Comments

A New Kind of Portal

I recently was turned on to a really interesting “Web 2.0″ site named Zimbio. Zimbio has taken a very unique spin on web portals. Basically, they’ve given users the ability to create their own “portals” on a wide range of topics. The cool thing is that any user can contribute to the [...]

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