What Is a Personal Portal?


A personal portal is designed for the individual. It is your address on the Internet. It provides you with the opportunity to promote yourself, your family, or manage your relationships on both a personal and business level electronically.

Today's personal portals are based on individual interests. These sites are primarily informational, and relatively simple in their composition and content. Many Internet service providers offer personal portals, which typically are just personalized Web pages filled with text and images.

The personal portals of tomorrow will be much more. They will be the home servers that interface with friends, business colleagues, and the emerging home automation market. They will complement the software engines that keep the home running in an automated and connected world. Peer-to-peer technologies offer the most promising approach to realizing this vision.

Imagine scheduling appointments with doctors, business associates, and friends with the help of a home server that is constantly updating your calendar and contact information and that information is available to you anywhere. Or imagine automating bill payment and banking to a new level of completeness and efficiency almost effortlessly with bank statements fed into investment software, and software agents that assist in financial planning. It is possible today!

In this chapter, you will look at the details of a personal portal in the light of P2P technologies, specifically content management and the sharing of information from a personal perspective. Think of this as starting construction on your software HomePlace that will begin to automate your connections to the outside world.

Let's begin with content management in a connected and distributed world.



JavaT P2P Unleashed
JavaT P2P Unleashed
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