Meet the Containers

myAOL: "the secret container"

Eric Staats
Eric.Staats@corp.aol.com

AOL Refresher

• Largest real time social network
• Leader in business map solutions
• Leader in video search
• Plus so much more...

myAOL Platform

• Like iGoogle, Netvibes, MyYahoo but...
• Adds Magnet (collaborative recommendations engine branded as "Mgnet")
• Adds Favorites (feed reader and bookmarks)

myAOL to-date

• 55 portals
• 16 countries, 12 languages
• 20 million users

myAOL today

• AJAX based web application (using Dojo)
• Standards based microformat widgets written in ModuleT
• ModuleT based on standard HTML+CSS+AJAX enabled Javascript

Gadget goodness

• Write "once", run "anywhere" development paradigm
• 100K gadgets / 2100 Open Social gadgets
• Based on standard HTML+CSS+AJAX enabled Javascript

More gadget goodness

• L10N via XML message bundles
• Bi-directional text support
• Server side templating language
• Server side AJAX pre-fetch
• Extensible multi-view support

Gadget security

• Key to AOL adoption
• OAuth instead of username+password
• Iframe+Caja keeps your users and their data safer

MyAOL and You!

• Updated myAOL portal launching soon with gadget support
• Adding Open Social support in the future
• Access to a different audience than iGoogle and the likes
• Access to our existing OpenAuth based API's
• Access to our upcoming OAuth based API's

Links:

• More on myAOL:
• http://my.aol.com
• AOL's Developer Network (incl. open APIs):
• http://dev.aol.com
• Open Social & Gadgets:
• http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/
• http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/
• http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com/