AOL yesterday announced that they
purchased another company called "Goowy". What does this mean to AOL Journals
users? Well, with this announcement, AOL has got
some great new widgets that can be used in your
Journal. They come to you from a website named "yourminis.com".
What's a widget? Hmm... that's a
technology term we use, and it is essentially allows you to have a mini
version of an application on other pages, like your blog. For example,
Youtube has a widget
that allows you to view a Youtube video on your
page.
Yourminis has many of these
widgets that you can now use on your AOL Journal.
First, let's show you some
examples:
The "Flickr" widget
allows you to show any photos on Flickr. These can be from your account,
or from a tag (e.g. if you want to show cat
photos).
The "AOL
Pictures" widget shows photos from the
public galleries on AOL Pictures.
The "Countdown"
widget allows you to countdown towards an event. E.g. a wedding, a
birthday, anniversary. It's very
nice.
The "Weather"
widget allows you to put your city and show the weather. Or maybe a
city where you want to go on vacation
:-)
The "eBay" widget will
let you search for items on
ebay.
And lots, lots more. You can search for widgets
on Yourmini's gallery
page.
In the next blog post, I will show you how to add a widget
from yourminis to
your blog.
More
Details:
Read
more about yourmini
widgets here.
Search for yourmins
here.
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5 comments:
YAY! I'm so glad that we are becoming less limited on what we can do! -Missy
very cool...thanks!
Nancy
Still waiting and waiting & waiting for more moods in our journals. Would you be able to check to find out if and when more moods will be added? Thanks.
~D
Hi Dana,
Our next release should have more moods for you to choose from.
Vish
I have to say, AOL is doing alot of great things with the Journal programs....
I really love it....
Thank you so much for putting the great creative efforts into it.
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