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For the first time, Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) made these personalized gateways to the Internet accessible for full-scale testing yesterday. The portals' most prominent feature is an on-line version of a pocket day planner.
About two years ago, Yahoo! launched one of the first and most popular personalization services, called "MyYahoo!"
Harvard is joining these commercial sites with portals called "My Harvard," that it hopes affiliates of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will make into their homepages.
"Everyone under the sun has portals today," said Director of FAS Computer Services Franklin M. Steen.
For example, he said, many users keep a list of favorite Internet links--called bookmarks--on their personal machines. But they can't access these bookmarks when they move to a different machine in a computer lab or at a kiosk.