A new look for AOL Desktop Beta!
Posted Apr 25th 2008 8:42PM by Laura Peterson
Today we released our third AOL Desktop (codename: Nexus) build with a brand new look designed especially for the AOL Beta Community. It's AOL like you've never seen it before.
This Beta release not only contains visual customizations that identifies with the AOL Beta Community, but functional ones designed to assist with Beta testing.
In the toolbar and favorites, you will find shortcuts to AOL Beta Central, Beta chat, reporting feedback, and other popular tasks and sites.
Go to the Nexus Beta site to download the AOL Beta Community release and take part in the focus test!
Stay tuned for information about the next Beta chat with the AOL product team.
Cheers,
Laura
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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. i installed ur new desktop software and rue the day. i lost everybit of music i haad in windows media player.im talking about 100s of jazz items that took many hour to rip. aol u should warn about that sort of thing.damn. back to square one.i'm corked at aol.rb2
Posted at 1:00PM on Apr 28th 2008 by iwo4520
2. I love that the Beta Community is being recognized this way.
I'm not a big fan of the dark blue color.
Also, did anyone notice that these new Beta toolbar icons like just like the News one?
I would like to see the new flame icon for the BC icon and maybe a design conest for the others. :)
Posted at 1:43PM on Apr 28th 2008 by SBSBJB
3. iwo4520 -- please provide some more info so AOL can investigate. It's highly unlikely that any of your WMP files were modified by installing AOL -- we would have no reason to touch anything there. One suggestion: check your recycling bin to see if they might be there.
Posted at 9:52PM on Apr 28th 2008 by Laura Peterson
4. 'Stay tuned for information about the next Beta chat with the AOL product team.
Cheers,
Laura '
Ohhhhh----I've been staying tuned!!! Today is Wednesday April 30th and I was hoping we'd see something about a new chat date by today. There's a lot to talk about what with Beta 3 out and all.. . Franki
Posted at 1:21PM on Apr 30th 2008 by Franki
5. Dear Ms. Peterson,
I have made three lengthy attempts to solve various problems with AOL desktop, which I am using with a new computer running on VISTA. None of the tech personnel on live support were of any use, and all took a considerable amount of my time. The wait for telephone support is up to 20 minutes. I want to contact you directly via e-mail. How do I do so?
a very frustrated user,
Bonnie
Posted at 3:59PM on May 3rd 2008 by Bonnie Koestner