Facebook junkies can now get notified of updates right from myAOL - Yay! Check out the new Facebook Notifier myAOL Gadget which we recently launched. The widget displays information from your Facebook account including new updates, status messages, photos and more. Click the button to add it to your page now.
The new myAOL Facebook gadget makes it easy to keep track of Facebook while also keeping up on all of your news, weather and email updates on myAOL.

Please note: This widget requires you to login to a Facebook account in order to see updates. You may need to make sure your browser allows popups to signin to Facebook from this gadget.

Everyone is looking to save money at the pump these days! myAOL has just added a Local Gas Prices module that you can customize to any U.S. city and find the lowest gas prices within a 10-mile radius. Add it to your page and start saving today!

Let's take a brief and closer look at YourMinis, which AOL acquired last week. YourMinis create widgets for you to use on your blog, website, startpage, and desktop. Yes, all 4!

So how does it work?

First, go to the widget gallery, and let's choose the "YouTube Videos" widget which is currently under the Top Rated widgets:



Next, after selecting the widget, you will see a preview of the widget. In the grid view, select the "COPY ME" button to select your destination for the widget. You should see this now:




Next, you choose your destination for the widget. For example, if you are using Windows Vista, you will choose the Windows icon in the 3rd Row. Or, if you want to use it in FaceBook, you will select the FaceBook icon in the 1st Row. I will choose the first option 'Copy Embed Code', which will provide me an HTML code snippet and I simply just copy/paste the code into this blog entry. Each blog type differs in how they require you to embed HTML code, but many of the popular blogs are listed as default options (shown above).

Done!

**NOTE: currently, only a limited number of YourMinis work with myAOL. For the specific list of widgets, please view this previous blog post.

In addition to the AOL Mail module, you can now also add the Gmail Module and Yahoo Mail modules! Check them out if you have a Gmail or Yahoo account.

You can find the Gmail module here:


And find the Yahoo Mail module here:

We just added another new module today - the MapQuest Module. MapQuest is America's #1 mapping website on the Web. You can use this convenient module to instantly get maps and routes, or you can use it to find businesses and places.

Below is a sample map of San Francisco:

You are now able to add the "What's Hot" module from Mgnet onto your own myAOL start page! What's Hot will provide you with all the latest and hottest news across the Web. The module itself is a nice image cloud that updates itself in real time.

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:

1. yourminis: Clock
2. yourminis: AOL Video
3. yourminis: Veoh Video
4. yourminis: Would You Rather
5. yourminis: Amazon Wish List
6. yourminis: twiiter
7. yourminis: To Do List
8. yourminis: iTunes
9. yourminis: Pop 3 Mail
10. yourminis: Best Week Ever
11. yourminis: Brightcove Video
12. yourminis: MP3 Player
13. yourminis: Event Countdown
    

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.