Nexus Beta 2 now available

Posted Apr 15th 2008 4:10PM by Laura Peterson

A new build of AOL Desktop Beta (codename: Nexus) was posted yesterday!

Here are some of the key features of Beta 2:

  • AIM Call Out lets you make phone calls from your AIM buddy list, or even set up a VoIP session between two phone numbers.
  • More customization includes the ability to set rotating desktop background pictures and choose from millions of window color options.

    • Below is a picture of my customized AOL Desktop (Nexus) Beta. More feature announcements to come soon.

    Cheers,

    Laura

    Tile background royalty-free image courtesy of Stock Exchange sxc.hu.

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    Laura Peterson

    Product Lead, AOL Desktop

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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.

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