Somebody is dense here, you or me. First of all, not all of the Portals
I shared were run by companies. Evolt.org is a portal for the web
development community run by the web development community. But anyway,
how do these portals compare to FA? Here is my list of what FA is
missing.
Content rating done by the community
Content approval and review process done by the community
Content categorization (article, tip, review, code, etc)
The ability to browse the content according to the
categorization hierarchy
The ability to search the content by keyword and/or category
The ability to syndicate the content
Personalization
Integrated discussion forums (SMTP, NNTP, HTTP)
The entire web application should be open source and maintained
by the community
Users should be able to submit content directly through the web
application
Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
V: 415-577-8070
F: 415-341-8906
P: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:43 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: What is a portal? Re: (Admin) Behavior
>
> Hm, so having a list of articles by people on FA doesn't apply here?
Maybe
> its that people have to submit the articles to an editor first. Fancy
> that. I don't see anything in these sites that we're not doing here.
> The two things that I see here that make them a portal and us not is
that
> they're larger and run by a company rather than 'people'. The fact
that we
> have a CF Guru (if I may say so myself) as well as a professional
editor
> on staff should be points in our favor. Either way, we're a portal to
the
> CF world. We've always been one and always will be one. If some don't
> think of us as a portal, then it's all good for them. I'm not
legislating
> how people think.
>
> > As you can see form the above URLs, there are a significant amount
of
> > developer resources available. In fact there are even more portals
than
> > just the ones I referenced, but I just picked the ones I am most
> > familiar with. I really don't see how you compare FA and HoF to the
> > above.
> >
> > Really take a look at Evolt.org though. I think they offer the
closest
> > thing to what a ColdFusion portal should look like. They allow
anyone to
> > submit content that is approved, rated, and commented on by the
> > community. They have a vast tip database that is fed from their
mailing
> > lists. The code behind Evolt is maintained by the community. The two
> > main things missing from Evolt is quality control over the articles
and
> > a code sharing library.
> >
> > Matt Liotta
> > President & CEO
> > Montara Software, Inc.
> > http://www.montarasoftware.com/
> > V: 415-577-8070
> > F: 415-341-8906
> > P: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:55 PM
> > > To: CF-Talk
> > > Subject: What is a portal? Re: (Admin) Behavior
> > >
> > > > I guess our definitions differ. I don't really see those as
> > developer
> > > > portals. I personally think developer portals look more like
what
> > you
> > > > would find at DevX, CNet, Microsoft, and Macromedia. These
portals
> > offer
> > > > developers articles, tips, code, discussion groups, etc.
> > > So the articles on the sites don't fit the criteria? The tips and
code
> > > aren't enough? This list and the others aren't discussion groups?
I'm
> > > really not sure how HoF and FA fail to meet your criteria of a
portal.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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