About: updated description

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                        <h3>Portal Components</h3>
                                <h5>Myslice (Web Frontend)</h5>
                                        <p>
-                                               MySlice is an ambitious project aiming to support researchers throughout the 
-                                               lifecycle of experiments that can run on a variety of testbeds spanning different 
-                                               administrative domains and networking technologies. Its basic principle is to bring 
-                                               together available <b>resources</b> with <b>useful information</b> (characteristics, performance, network measurements).
+                                               A full-fledged and modular web portal for a testbed federation allowing user to register, 
+                                               request slices and browse and book resources, with a strong emphasis on measurements.
                                        </p>
                                        <p> More Info: <a href="http://myslice.info/" target="_blank">http://myslice.info/</a></p>
                                        <p> Code: <a href="http://git.onelab.eu/?p=myslice.git;a=summary" target="_blank">Git Repository</a> (read only)</p> 
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                                <h5>Manifold (Portal backend)</h5>
-                                       <p>Manifold is the backend that is running behind the portal.</p>
+                                       <p>
+                                               Manifold is the backend that is running behind the portal. It is a component allowing the integration of distributed 
+                                               and heterogeneous data sources, such as measurement platforms or data repositories.
+                                       </p>
                                        <p> Documentation: <a href="http://trac.myslice.info/" target="_blank">http://trac.myslice.info/</a></p>
                                        <p> Code: <a href="https://git.top-hat.info/?p=tophat.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/devel" target="_blank">Git Repository</a> (read only)</p>     
 

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                        <h3>Portal Components</h3>
                                <h5>Myslice (Web Frontend)</h5>
                                        <p>
-                                               MySlice is an ambitious project aiming to support researchers throughout the 
-                                               lifecycle of experiments that can run on a variety of testbeds spanning different 
-                                               administrative domains and networking technologies. Its basic principle is to bring 
-                                               together available <b>resources</b> with <b>useful information</b> (characteristics, performance, network measurements).
+                                               A full-fledged and modular web portal for a testbed federation allowing user to register, 
+                                               request slices and browse and book resources, with a strong emphasis on measurements.
                                        </p>
                                        <p> More Info: <a href="http://myslice.info/" target="_blank">http://myslice.info/</a></p>
                                        <p> Code: <a href="http://git.onelab.eu/?p=myslice.git;a=summary" target="_blank">Git Repository</a> (read only)</p> 
@@ -75,7 +73,10 @@
 
 
                                <h5>Manifold (Portal backend)</h5>
-                                       <p>Manifold is the backend that is running behind the portal.</p>
+                                       <p>
+                                               Manifold is the backend that is running behind the portal. It is a component allowing the integration of distributed 
+                                               and heterogeneous data sources, such as measurement platforms or data repositories.
+                                       </p>
                                        <p> Documentation: <a href="http://trac.myslice.info/" target="_blank">http://trac.myslice.info/</a></p>
                                        <p> Code: <a href="https://git.top-hat.info/?p=tophat.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/devel" target="_blank">Git Repository</a> (read only)</p>