Word: portale
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...Keep spiders off your cake, protect dragonflies from rhinoceros beetles, toss tiny umbrellas to baby birds as they fall out of their nest-all you need is your mouse and maybe your arrow keys to maneuver. For more silly diversions, try Little Fluffy Industries, which is part blog, part portal: editors review and link to new online games every...
...America Online AOL.com Portal For years aol.com essentially functioned as a log-in page for AOL subscribers who wished to check their email when they were away from their home PCs. Not anymore. In an effort to better compete against rivals Google, Yahoo and MSN, AOL is busy reinventing its public page as a portal, unlocking the gates to most of its members-only Web properties and making the content accessible to everybody. The official launch of the new aol.com portal is scheduled for sometime in July, but parts of it are already being rolled out on a test basis...
...Personalized Home Page There's been so much co-opting in the portal wars that we're not surprised to see Google offering custom home pages, a la My Yahoo and My MSN (and soon there will be My AOL too-see below). But Google's version manages to maintain a streamlined design, even with a busier page. You can elect to display news headlines from a few different sources (the New York Times, BBC News, Wired), plus local weather, a Quote of the Day and a snapshot of your Gmail inbox. You must register for a Google account...
...Yahoo! Music With this service, you don't have to purchase individual tracks before transferring them to your portal music player. Rather, you pay a flat subscription fee-$7 a month or $60 a year-for unlimited downloads. (Of course, if you close your account, the files will no longer play.) Napster To Go and RealNetworks' Rhapsody To Go both work the same way, and like Yahoo's service, cater to the same crowd-namely, consumers who own an MP3 player made by a company other than Apple (like Dell, iRiver, Creative, etc.). You'll need to check the list...
...concept that's bigger in Asia than in the U.S.: online games, a $370 million industry in China in which players interact with each other via the Internet in a virtual world of dragons, maidens and sword fights. Chen has bought majority stakes in Sina, the country's largest portal, and a host of other online gaming companies. Next up, Shanda, in collaboration with Intel, hopes to introduce a set-top box that will enable users to access everything from news, music and movies to games and online auction sites. Currently, only 20 million Chinese own computers, but 330 million...