Contemporary studies show that the usage of health-related web portals increases continuously. Additionally, the internet’s usage is in a transition towards more user participation by allowing more and more user generated content. In the area of health care this development is commonly called health 2.0; a development that leads more patients and doctors to actively participate and contribute o...

Public portals, such as Web search engines, have been available for a number of years and corporate portals that facilitate access to enterprise information within a company, normally through the Web, have been available for the last few years. Such portals are made up of “channels” of information and the purpose of these portals is to provide an interface that presents an organized view of the...

The usage of mobile phones and their related Internet transactional activity through mobile portals (m-portals) are an everyday activity for increasing numbers of people. However, unlike investigation of users’ attitudes to more static computing devices, user satisfaction with m-portals is yet to be researched. In addressing this gap, this research draws upon knowledge gained from Stage One of ...

The topic of Web Portals, despite appearing to cover quite a narrow area, is an extremely diverse one. Amongst other things, it covers the technology of portals, how portal software is implemented and the many and varied applications and business uses to which portals can be put. This chapter investigates various approaches to portals research, concentrating on research related to the human asp...

Over the past few years the web has grown to several hundred million pages, while just a few of them get most of the visits. Such sites, called portals, attract visitors, advertisers and provide lots of valuable content at no charge to the visitors. The portals attract a disproportionate amount of the Internet advertising dollars and have the ability to influence the success of new electronic c...

User reputation has become a valuable commodity for enabling trusted transactions on the Internet especially with strangers in virtual communities. However, the reputation information about the various users are normally locked-up in the silos of different web-portals where the members interact. This effectively creates multiple reputation ratings for the same user, each one painstakingly built...

Evaluation of regional web portals is based on methods of Digital Governance in Municipalities Worldwide. We evaluated 6 regional web portals using 12 parameters in area of content and services. From the five possible evaluated areas belonging to methodology of Digital Governance in Municipalities Worldwide, we focused on the areas of content and services. We compared Czech web portals against ...

From a geoinformation science perspective real estate portals apply non-spatial methods to analyse and visualise rental price data. Their approach shows considerable shortcomings. Portal operators neglect real estate agents' mantra that exactly three things are important in real estates: location, location and location [16]. Although real estate portals record the spatial reference of their lis...

Healthcare portals are becoming increasingly popular with Internet users since they play an important role in supporting interaction between individuals and healthcare organizations with a web presence. Additionally, many of these organizations make use of knowledge management mechanisms on their healthcare portals to manage the abundance of health related information, exchange and share inform...

Cultural content on the web is available in various forms (documents, images, audio tracks, videos, collection items, learning objects etc.), concern various topics (art, history, handicraft, etc.), is written in different languages, is targeted to both laymen and experts, and is provided by different independent memory organizations (museums, archives, libraries) and individuals. The difficult...