DOW Surges; Finance Quick Access Panel Goes Green
Posted Mar 11th 2008 6:47PM by Laura Peterson
Hi all,
For the first time in a long time, the quick access panel for the Finance spot in the AOL Desktop toolbar is full of green in response to today's good news from the stock market.
Below is a screenshot commemorating the good news -- the panel is called out by me with the red rounded rectangle.
This is also a good time to show those of you new to AOL Desktop that these quick access panels, which act like a "sneak peek" of many of the AOL content areas, are available when you hover over the toolbar spots with your mouse. (Not all the toolbar spots have these quick access panels, but the main ones do.) Then, you can click on the actual quick access panel itself and go directly to the headline or stock quote.
(Fun fact of the day: internally at AOL, these quick access panels are abbreviated to "QAPs", which we pronounce as "kwap" to rhyme with "snap". It can get a little confusing for newcomers or those not on our team!)
Cheers,
Laura 
Resources
Most Commented Posts
Most Commented On (7 days)
Most Recent Comments
Blogroll
About The Team
Laura Peterson is a Principal Product Manager in AOL Products and the lead product manager on the AOL Desktop software. She works with AOL Product Development, Product Design, Quality Assurance, AOL Beta, Marketing, and AOL Help to create, talk about, launch, and support the AOL software! She also responds to as much member feedback and questions as she can via email, IM, and, of course, the blog itself. Walking the hallways of AOL since 2003, her previous assignments include work on the AOL 9.0 Optimized toolbar, AOL's voice services products, and other software releases such as 9.0 VR and the first AOL Mail and AIM Gadget.
Doran Butuche is the lead product manager on Desktop Gadgets, those cool mini-applications that live in the Vista Sidebar, where he is responsible for product definition and management.
Summer is a Sr. Manager for AOL Member Communications. While she has no ties directly to the product development team, she has been a contributor to many AOL blogs over the last few years and is excited to bring a non-product team perspective to the Desktop blog.
Subscribe
Subscribe to AOL Desktop Blog News & Updates
