New: automatic RSS toolbar panels
Posted May 20th 2008 8:38PM by Laura Peterson
As RSS feeds become more common, you can now access these constantly updating headlines and articles already associated with many of your favorite websites directly from your AOL Desktop toolbar.
Find a website that has an RSS feed associated with it. A website featuring RSS feeds has the orange RSS icon in the right side of the URL field (circled here in blue):
These two screenshots from the current AOL Desktop Beta (codename: Nexus) show me adding a favorite (Joystiq.com) then, after dragging it to the desired spot in my toolbar, hovering over the Joystiq favorite to access the built-in RSS feed. I can then click on any of the headlines in the feed to be taken directly to the article.
Adding the favorite:
Accessing the RSS panel and clicking on a headline:
This is one of many features available in the current Beta, available now on Beta Central: http://beta.aol.com/projects.php?project=nexus
Enjoy this alternative way of getting to your feeds in AOL Desktop!
Cheers,
Laura
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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.
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