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AOL launches 3 new myAOL services

My AOL Mgnet
This blog's parent company, AOL, has launched a new myAOL portal. The site includes three new services:
  • myPage: a personalized start page
  • Favorites: an updated feed reader
  • Mgnet (pronounced "magnet"), a customizable news page that selects news for you based on your reading preferences
The feed reader feels a lot like a cramped version of Google Reader, but with a nifty new "mix and share" feature that lets you share a group of feeds with others. The personalized start page looks pretty much like every other AJAX start page you've seen in the last year or two. But Mgnet is pretty cool, if not 100% original. You have to use it to really get a sense of it, so we whipped up a little screencast showing Mgnet and the other services fit together. It's available after the jump.


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Netvibes personalized home page adds POP/IMAP module

NetvibesSomebody correct me if I'm wrong, but among all the personalized home page services, I think this is a first: Netvibes has added a module for their home pages that will show you new messages from your IMAP and POP3 e-mail accounts. The module allows you to customize the number of e-mail headings to show as well as specify a URL to link to a webmail account if you have one. This in addition to their preexisting Gmail and Yahoo! Mail support. Also new to me is Netvibes' Development Blog which is updated fairly constantly.

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