Enhanced AOL Mail Gadget Now Available
for iGoogle
Posted Nov 19th 2008 2:28PM by Webmail Team
An enhanced version of the AOL Mail gadget is now available for iGoogle. Through the gadget, AOL Mail users can now compose, read, reply to, forward, delete and mark new mail as spam – all without leaving the iGoogle page. AOL Mail's Principal Product Manager Rohit Kinra explains the new features below.
New AOL Mail Gadget Delivers More Features and Functionality to iGoogle Users
Enhanced AOL Mail Gadget Leverages OAuth and Canvas View Features to Give Users a More Complete AOL Mail Experience within the iGoogle Page
By Rohit Kinra, Principal Product Manager, AOL Mail
New AOL Mail Gadget Delivers More Features and Functionality to iGoogle Users
Enhanced AOL Mail Gadget Leverages OAuth and Canvas View Features to Give Users a More Complete AOL Mail Experience within the iGoogle Page
By Rohit Kinra, Principal Product Manager, AOL Mail
Today AOL introduced an enhanced version of the AOL Mail gadget offering users the ability to safely manage their AOL and AIM Mail accounts through the iGoogle homepage. Leveraging iGoogle's new canvas view feature, AOL Mail users can now read, reply to, forward, delete and mark new mail as spam; as well as compose new mail without leaving the iGoogle page.
The enhanced AOL Mail gadget is one of the first three iGoogle gadgets to be built using OAuth, a privacy-preserving security standard that allows users to safely pass personalized information across the Web. Because OAuth helps ensure security, AOL users can feel safer accessing their private Mail accounts through the iGoogle homepage.
iGoogle users with an AOL, AIM or tunome.com identity can use the new gadget to access their mail. Users in the United States who are already using the existing AOL Mail gadget to preview mail on the iGoogle homepage should click here to add the new gadget and also remove the old gadget from their homepage.
AOL worked closely with Google to enhance the AOL Mail experience on iGoogle, and will continue to work with the company to introduce more gadget functionality. Localized versions of the gadget will launch in several geographies over the next few months.
For more information on the AOL Mail iGoogle gadget, read the post on the iGoogle Developer Blog.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. Desperately Need Help re AOL Webmail's Lack of Reliability: I am at the end of my rope. I have difficulty accessing mail and composing responses. Seems like there is difficulty in loading everything because of the heavy ad graphics. The slowness is driving me crazy. I regularly empty my cache and run spyware and virus software. Are others having this problem? It is affecting my ability to work efficiently.
I have Windows XP but I have not loaded the Service Pack 3. Could that help at all? Would accessing email through IGoogle be better? Need some advice!
Posted at 11:44AM on Nov 21st 2008 by ne2907
2. @ne2904: I am sorry you have such trouble. The ads should really have no impact at all. If you are behind dial-up you may try http://basic.webmail.aol.com. This should be much faster. Also what browser are you using? Have you considered Firefox?
Posted at 3:37PM on Nov 21st 2008 by marcelbmbecker
3. I have high speed cable. I use Internet Explorer. And, I have sometimes had to use the basic version of AOL mail but that is not a solution because you are not able to access the contents of saved folders.
Posted at 1:24PM on Nov 22nd 2008 by ne2907
4. @ne2907: Basic Webmail provides all the same (basic) functionality then Standard Webmail. This includes the folders as well: You can access them by clicking on "My Folders" which you can find in the left pane under the system folders. This will expand the list and should display all your private folders.
Regarding the other "Slowness" you're reporting. Make sure you're using the latest version of Internet Explorer (7.0) - and also you might want to give Firefox 3.0 a try. It's much more secure and faster then Internet Explorer.
Marcel, AOL Webmail Team
Posted at 2:58PM on Nov 24th 2008 by marcelbmbecker
5. Marcel - Thanks for your responsiveness. Can you comment on the annoying error message that many of us are receiving: "We're sorry, the content you've requested is temporarily unavailable. Try again later."
More at http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.php?boardId=486813&articleId=14527&func=6&channel=Computers+%26+Electronics&filterRead=false&filterHidden=true&filterUnhidden=false
Posted at 12:45PM on Nov 25th 2008 by ne2907
6. @ne2907: This is an "infamous" error message coming from Internet Explorer. It most often helps to either go to http://webmail.aol.com directly (not through aol.com) or - I know I keep repeating myself - to use another browser like Firefox.
Posted at 1:44PM on Nov 25th 2008 by marcelbmbecker
7. Ever since Dec 9, when I sign in to My AOL, using Firefox and Google,I get the same news stories. I have tried downloading the new application for One Click sign in from iGoogle, but simply get a display on how to download, without access to the steps that are illustrated.
Posted at 1:27PM on Dec 21st 2008 by Susan