Toot out to my old team: great updates to myAOL!

Wanted to give a shoutout (or toot out) to my old team... They just released a nice update for myAOL. A great new experience for first time users, and to customize your page. Most important, it loads very fast.

I tried the new experience on a 24inch Mac at the Apple Store in Berkeley. It looked great.

This product is the default home page for HP and Compaq machines across the world.. That's quite an audience who get to use this product.

Great work!

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Comments

Anonymous said…

I tried it also and I like it. The problem is that it doesn't come up as the home page. The old home page comes up and you have to click "My". I clicked "make this my home page", but it didn't work. Any suggestions ?

I got your address from Magic Smoke today. Your photo site input ideas were great and I'm going to use them.

Jimmy
http://journals.aol.com/jimsulliv3/jimmys-jourtnal/

April 28, 2008 at 5:03 PM

Anonymous said…

Jimmy,

Check out this blog post I wrote on how to have an additional home page in the AOL 9.0 client.

http://myaolblog.aol.com/2007/09/01/making-myaol-the-homepage-in-aol-9-0/

That may do the trick, at least it should give you an additional option.

Glad you liked the photo slideshow tips! Thanks for stopping by.

--Will

April 28, 2008 at 5:07 PM

Anonymous said…

Thanks Will - the team did a great job. Dyna's got a bunch of fun new themes in there as well. btw, can you hit all the other Apple stores in CA and make myAOL their homepage? ;)

Cheers!
jc

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