Reading up on theory about mashups I found an article on Wikipedia that states the following about “oldfashioned” portals’ aggregation style: “Salad bar” style – Aggregated content is presented ‘side-by-side’ without overlaps”. I think this is a nice analogy, and I would like to take it a step further, saying that:
- Oldfashioned portals (“portlet” technology) are salad bars, while
- mashups are salads
Portlets:
(Image: Wikipedia commons)
Mashups:
(Image: Wikipedia Commons)