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Several conference presentations related to the FLUID project, which will be working with uPortal in the near term to improve user experience and adopt more compelling user interface components. It is not too early to get involved in these exciting efforts.
At the conference, Matt Young of Duke University announced the availability of JSR-168 portlets from the Duke uPortal project as open source portlets, including a Facebook integration portlet, an email portlet, and a tabbed RSS consumption portlet. This was just one (particularly well-presented) example of interesting higher-ed-developed JSR-168 portlets shown and discussed at JA-SIG Denver.