Sounds like a return to the AOL model of accessing the internet through a portal. Some part of me likes the idea of a portal by which I access information, but

Sounds like a return to the AOL model of accessing the internet through a portal. Some part of me likes the idea of a portal by which I access information, but when I stop and think about it, in my mind that portal is the browswer and the data is the raw web. I don't like the idea of a site with personal information directing my use. But I'm atypical: I don't do social stuff, and I tend to use mail clients to download my mail through imap rather than webmail.