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This is the place to sketch out ideas for portlets for new Yale portal.

h3.Current development

* [Weather Portlet]
* [Traffic Alerts Portlet]
* [Bookmarks Portlet]
* [Yale Events Portlet]
* [Sports Scores Portlet]
* [My Calendar Portlet]

h3.Just Ideas

General useful stuff

* {color:green}Yale-Google Map and map search{color}
* {color:blue}Better weather, radar{color}
* {color:blue}traffic info{color}
* {color:blue}sports scores{color}
* City info
* Local movie showtimes
* Links to student agencies - TUBA, etc.
* Yale cable TV listings
* Tools like calculator, dictionary, thesaurus, wikipedia, etc.?

Residential College-related data

* intramural cup standings
* RSS of college newsletters
* college announcements
* polls, elections
* Yale facebook

Yale-related data

* {color:green}dining hall menu{color}
* {color:green}relevant, interesting Yale news (YDN, Yale Herald, etc.){color}
* {color:blue}calendars of Yale events (university events, lectures, master's teas, deadlines: drop courses, etc.){color}
* eventually, perhaps activity-related forums
* Yale sports scores
* intelligent Yale directory / facebook integration

Calendaring

* Master's teas
* Important deadlines (submit your schedule, drop a course, etc.)
* athletic events
* course schedule
* Sakai schedules
* New Haven events
* University events

Places to look for inspiration
* Other schools' portals
* Popular widgets in google, yahoo, dashboard