WebSphere Portal 7 is currently in its Beta release, so if you want to get a quick peek at IBM's latest flagship software, it's out there for the viewing.
Of course, an even better way to get the scoop on IBM's WebSphere Portal 7 release would be to hang around TheServerSide.com and read Sal Pece's soon-to-come, multi-part series, on IBM WebSphere Portal 7 installation, development and administration.
IBM WebSphere Portal 7 Beta Release
New features introduced in the Portal Beta 3 release of WebSphere Portal and Lotus Web Content Management include:
*** Tagging allows users (and entire user communities) to classify, organize and structure content autonomously. It can add valuable meta-information and even lightweight semantics and allows non-expert users to develop folksonomies that categorize content available in the system.Rating allows users to vote for the popularity of portal content and helps other users to quickly identify hot items
*** Virtual resources based security concepts to control which and how users and groups can tag and rate
*** Full xmlaccess support for tagging and rating
*** Powerful APIs to create, delete, update and query tags and ratings
*** Lotus Web Content Management enhancements including: content model simplified by merging Sites and Site Areas, enhanced workflow model providing support for Bi-directional workflow traversal, and taxonomy driven option selection element
*** Extend and integrate Lotus Web Content Management with external applications via Java Messaging (JMS)
IBM WebSphere Portal 7 Beta Release