Integration in Internet ?

Nowadays, the business need of system integration in one company become more and more important task. Many companies search for good, cheep and easily developed portal solutions so they can make one common entry point for their systems and no doubt, the best Microsoft solution for this task is the SharePoint platform.

While companies and enterprise integration have many options and products, what about the Internet integration? Is there a simple and no resources required way to recreate the idea of integration?

The reason for trying to do this is the fact that there are many areas in internet where we can make a portal collecting different sources and information and making this in a very simple and cheep way. And of course, if we make good and useful portal, this will not be a waste of time ad money.

Making or using some crawlers and displaying the results in categorized way is good but not so cheep solution.

As a big fen of Google, I try to combine their services and to see how can I recreate the idea of integration.

I get for example my personal "web systems"- two blogs, facebook profile, personal web site. And the picture is something like this:

The personal site will be the user entry point and will have RSS from the blogs and facebook profile. The data storage will be the Picasa (for images) and code.google.com(for files) and the monitoring will be Google Analytics.

Actually, the example is not very clear but the idea of iterating things is really good concept and it's worth to be experimented with it.
And to best thing is such approaches is that we don't replace the existing systems ( in many case this is impossible), we just combine them and get to the user better experience and analytics data.

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