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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm new to the list and hope this is an
appropriate place to post <BR>a basic question. Our business has a
need to prototype a portal <BR>application. A friend mentioned that Zope might
be worth <BR>investigating as a possible platform. I'm hoping that the readers
of <BR>this list can offer some guidance.<BR><BR>OVERVIEW<BR>This portal will be
a public media sharing site, not too dissimilar <BR>from the old MP3.com site
(or kind of like the current garageband.com <BR>site). Public users need to be
able to create an account. Each user <BR>with an account will get an
automatically created, somewhat <BR>customizable 'homepage' within the site.
They will be able to self-<BR>publish their media, add it to one of the site's
directory categories <BR>for browsing, and add a searchable description. Each
homepage will <BR>have a list of that user's media that other users can
browse/play, a <BR>description of the user, a mini-blog for the user (with
comments). <BR>Each piece of media will have a way for other users to rate it
(the <BR>average rating being displayed), report it for abuse, and add <BR>a
'review' to it. Reviews will have a "Was this review helpful" <BR>option (like
Amazon).<BR><BR>The main page of the site will have a browsable category
directory, <BR>search function, as well as an automatically generated "top ten"
<BR>list, a "most recently added" list, a "higest rated" list, "featured"
<BR>list etc. Each category will have its own sub-page with the same <BR>items
on it.<BR><BR>This site will start as a low volume prototype (a few hundred
users) <BR>but we hope it will need to eventually scale to tens of
thousands.<BR><BR>Your opinions please:<BR><BR>- Is Zope a good platform for
this type of application?<BR>- Are there any sites like this built on Zope?<BR>-
How far can Zope (and existing Zope addons) get us toward this <BR>goal?
(halfway? more?)<BR>- Are there any Zope addons that we should particularly look
at?<BR>- Any caveats or concerns we should be aware of?<BR><BR>Thanks for any
help you can provide.<BR><BR>--- Mark</FONT></DIV>
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