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A Sweetheart of a Theme

Posted Feb 16th 2009 11:23PM by Tracy Highnote
Filed under: myAOL Content Gallery, myAOL Widgets, myAOL myPage, myAOL

The myAOL team has made a brand-new theme available this week just in time for Valentine's Day! If you like pink, you're going to love this theme. It's called Magenta, and you can try it out by clicking on the Themes link at the top right of myAOL, then by selecting Magenta from the Themes window.

New Magenta Theme

Also, there are continually new gadgets added to myAOL that you might want to add to your experience. There's a "See New Gadgets" link to the right of the blue Add Stuff button that takes you to the Recently Added category of our gadget gallery.

Here are some examples of sweet new gadgets:
- Romantic Name Generator
- Beautiful Skies Photo Gallery
- Inspirational Quotes

Happy Valentine's Day to All!
The myAOL Team

We've Got Gadgets!

Posted Oct 16th 2008 1:10PM by Jennifer Consalvo
Filed under: myAOL Blog, myAOL Content Gallery, myAOL Widgets, myAOL Content, myPage, myAOL

When myAOL launched just over a year ago, our goal was to open up the platform to allow other companies, startups and independent developers across the world to build widgets for the site, populating myAOL with content and functionality that would hold personal appeal across broad and niche audiences. It took a little longer than we hoped (rolling out myAOL in 25 countries took up a bit of our time!) but... today we are thrilled to announce the launch of the new open developer site at: http://dev.my.aol.com.

The new site offers developers links to information and tools for building gadgets and the opportunity to submit existing gadgets to share via the myAOL Gadget Gallery, which already includes many gadgets built by the myAOL team, widget factories, and third-party developers.

Working with developers from Google and other members of the OpenSocial community to adopt the gadget spec ensures that developers with existing gadgets are able to submit them to the myAOL Gallery, and makes it easy for widget factories to offer their developer communities a simple way to submit their work as well. For example, yourminis is now live with the ability to easily add any of their widgets to a myAOL page or submit them to the myAOL Gallery.

CONGRATULATIONS to the entire myAOL team – from Mountain View to Bangalore to Dulles!

THANK YOU to our colleagues at Google who have been so helpful throughout the process.

Our combined efforts have resulted in a variety of fun gadgets for the myAOL audience (with many more on the way!) and the creation of a site that will allow us to fill myAOL with more choices and more great content. Check out our post on the opensocial blog too!

Jen Consalvo
Director, Product Management, myAOL

myAOL Has yourminis

Posted Aug 7th 2007 12:03PM by Frank Gruber
Filed under: myAOL Content Gallery, myAOL Widgets, myAOL Content, myAOL Modules, myPage, myAOL

Keeping with our open platform philosophy, we are pleased to announce that myAOL is now offering some of your favorite Goowy yourminis widgets to be added to your personalized home page. The flashy yourminis that have been added to the myAOL Gallery include the following widgets:

Visit the myAOL Gallery to find a yourminis category in the left column. Clicking on the category will display all of the yourminis widgets currently offering on myAOL (see gallery image below).

With yourminis on myAOL you can create an entire page filled with widgets similar the page below. You can edit the yourminis widgets within myAOL by simply clicking the color icons in the top right corner of each widget and your changes will be automatically saved for you. Personalize your myAOL page with yourminis today!

Finally, special thank you to Alex Bard, Gary Benitt, Jeremy Suriel, Sashi Bommakanty and the rest of the San Diego-based yourminis team - it has been a lot of fun working with you to make yourminis on myAOL a reality.

Get Your Local News Topix on myAOL

Posted Aug 2nd 2007 2:00PM by Frank Gruber
Filed under: myAOL Content Gallery, myAOL Widgets, myAOL Content, myAOL myPage, myPage, myAOL

We are pleased to have just added a local news widget to our content gallery on myAOL. The widget is powered by Topix and offers an aggregation of local news based on the ZIP Code you provide when you first visited myAOL. We are extremely pleased to be working with Topix. Check out the widget below:

If you don't recall what ZIP Code you enter or want to change it, simply add the widget to your page and then click on the "options" link in the top right corner of the widget.

CLICK HERE to find out more information about the Topix Local News widget and add it to your myAOL page NOW!