I’m not sure who dreams up these names

CrimsonConnect was developed by two students at Harvard as an alternative to the institutional student portal: “my.harvard.edu”. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that they were asked to remove the course material they had been included as it wasn’t password protected. It was developed with the relatively new Netvibes Universe.

I’ve had a Netvibes account for a while but I don’t yet have the ability to create a public universe (invitation-only it seems!), so for now Netvibes remains like iGoogle & MyYahoo, a private personalised page.

Pageflakes, have been offering publicly sharable portal-type pages for a while, which they recently seem to have started calling Pagecasts…ugh. Here are a couple of examples:

• Wine Feeds
• LSE Blogs & my demo page