links for 2010-03-02

[via @skinny]

ORLY? Portal = Info dashboard = Info filter. And Google, AOL, Topix are just "default" portals that folks can understand and easily use.

"There are no search-specific findings; however it appears from the survey data that “portal websites like Google News, AOL and Topix are the most commonly used online news sources, visited by over half of online news users on a typical day."

"We think Apple foresees a future in which the iPad is the default way people do what they now do with computers (and some other new things)." [via @uszabo]

"Today, we’re happily turning the Firehose on for some new partners focused mainly on exploring the incredibly rich field of real-time search and discovery."