I Need Simplicity. I Need UBER-Portal

The other day, I lamented over having to access too many systems.  As a consultant, I don’t have much control over which and how many.  Let’s just say that I access everything from PBWiki to some crusty old forums.  This weekend, I added one new email address and another information source – Microsoft Groove.  I don’t trust password vaults because I’m not sure who is going to be in business a few years from now.  Here were my “friend’s” responses:

  1. Let the crack pipe pass you by (posted by someone who keeps his life simple – artfully.)
  2. Time for an intervention (posted by a friend.)
  3. An interesting challenge for messaging co-existence (posted by a messaging and co-existence vendor.)
  4. A helpful message about Trillian, Seesmic, etc. (posted by someone who is always helpful but might have a access problem a little less complex than mine.)

What I really need is UBER-Portal!

To me, the perfect Uber-Portal does the following:

1. Combines SMS, MMS, Tweetdeck and Seesmic for 140 k sequences.

2. Brings in my top x Facebook friends (those who I always follow)

3. Brings in my mail (from 7 different accounts – Pop3, Exchange)

4. Combines Office Live, Google Docs, Wave content into a stream.  (Screw Google Buzz!)

5. Supports ad-hoc portlets for anything based on URLs.

6. Has scraping code to pull in content from any website (JSON, etc.)

7. Runs with Adobe Air – I am multi-platform so use Mac and WinX and Ubuntu machines interchangeably.  I’ll forgive for now and say it doesn’t need to use the iPhone SDK.

8. Has extensive filters and searching with some semantic search capabilities between information sources.

9. Pulls content locally (but does not push.)

10. Comes with extensive content aggregation (based on users, topics, relevancy, etc) features to easily blog, forward, copy, paste, save into HTML5 format. 

Do you need UBER Portal?  Know of any out there?

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