I would never have thought to
compare our system to a portal. I don't like portals. They're closed
little worlds in which someone else decides what you can or cannot see.
This is exactly the opposite of what we are providing at LightPole. We
are building enabling technology that allows a much wider variety of
content and applications to be delivered to the mobile phone. You could
think about it as bringing web 2.0 to mobile (versus previous attempts
at bringing "the web" to the phone). Let me explain.
In response to Antony Brydon's Post: Best-of-breed vs mobile application suites:
I would never have thought to compare our system to a portal. I don't like portals. They're closed little worlds in which someone else decides what you can or cannot see. This is exactly the opposite of what we are providing at LightPole. We are building enabling technology that allows a much wider variety of content and applications to be delivered to the mobile phone. You could think about it as bringing web 2.0 to mobile (versus previous attempts at bringing "the web" to the phone). Let me explain.