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1. Introduction
   1. Rationale
      1. Web as new mass media
      2. Communities along the tail
      3. New technologies
   2. Outline of the problem
      1. Functional issues
      2. Technical issues
   3. Objectives
      1. Standardization of web portal concepts
      2. Open componenent library
2. Research
   1. Web history: past and future
      1. Functionaly: How the web has been used ?
      2. Technicaly: How the web has been built ?
      3. A taste of what the web will be
   2. Social web and new mass media: web 2.0 features
      1. Web is social: many-to-many
      2. Web is social: we create profiles
      3. Web is social: profiles are linked
      4. Mass media means multi-media
      5. Mass media means multi-devices
      6. Vertical portals are open
      7. User interface
      8. Accessibility
      9. Trust
      10. Business model
      11. Web 2.0 technologies
          1. Ajax
          2. Semantic Web
          3. RSS
          4. Widget
          5. Web services
          6. RIA
      12. Other information relative to vertical portals
   3. Vertical portals : analysis and comparaison
      1. Horizontal portals
      2. Verticality and niches
      3. Analyse
      4. Summary Table
3. Standardization of vertical portal concepts
   1. Functional
   2. Technical
4. PortalLib: open component library for a vertical portal
   1. Methodology
   2. Description of how the problem was defined
   3. Initial work schedule
   4. Design process and decisions
   5. Implementation and testing
   6. PortalLib version 1.0 (28/07/2007) features
      1. User database generating public FOAF objects
      2. Authentification with OpenID
      3. AJAX components for a customizable user interface
      4. Widgets handling based on W3C working draft
      5. SW Portals tools
5. Conclusion
   1. Critical appraisal of the project
   2. Lessons learnt
   3. Product/Deliverable evaluation
6. References
7. Bibliography
8. Appendices
9. List of tables
10. List of figures