AOL, the web portal of America Online, is overhauling its portal page, incorporating third-party email services and social-networking sites into AOL.com, paidContent reports. A brand new homepage available at aol.com that will let consumers access multiple social networking services directly from AOL.com The new social networking feature allows consumers to post status updates to multiple social networks at once, and provides profile activity information, including new friend requests, status updates and mail notifications from services such as AIM, Bebo, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and other third-party sites.

Another feature, “Themes,” gives users the possibility of personalizing the homepage by choosing a color or backdrop of their own design. As part of this redesign, AOL’s digital advertising business Platform A,  and AOL.com are offering more robust capabilities for advertisers including customized wallpapers, increased rich media capabilities, much deeper and richer content integration opportunities and more.  AOL recently announced a new AOL Mail experience, with an updated look-and-feel to match the new AOL.com. New plug-ins and shortcuts provide 1-click access to relevant AOL and third-party content and services and extend e-mail aggregation to the AOL inbox. Users can now track and use their Yahoo! Mail through AOL Mail.The revised AOL.com should go live this summer

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Friday, October 31st, 2008 at 1:36 pm | by Kur-nia-one |