Enhanced AOL Mail Gadget Now Available for iGoogle

An enhanced version of the AOL Mail gadget is now available for iGoogle. Through the gadget, AOL Mail users can now compose, read, reply to, forward, delete and mark new mail as spam – all without leaving the iGoogle page. AOL Mail’s Principal Product Manager Rohit Kinra explains the new features below.

New AOL Mail Gadget Delivers More Features and Functionality to iGoogle Users
Enhanced AOL Mail Gadget Leverages OAuth and Canvas View Features to Give Users a More Complete AOL Mail Experience within the iGoogle Page
By Rohit Kinra, Principal Product Manager, AOL Mail

Today AOL introduced an enhanced version of the AOL Mail gadget offering users the ability to safely manage their AOL and AIM Mail accounts through the iGoogle homepage. Leveraging iGoogle’s new canvas view feature, AOL Mail users can now read, reply to, forward, delete and mark new mail as spam; as well as compose new mail without leaving the iGoogle page.

The enhanced AOL Mail gadget is one of the first three iGoogle gadgets to be built using OAuth, a privacy-preserving security standard that allows users to safely pass personalized information across the Web. Because OAuth helps ensure security, AOL users can feel safer accessing their private Mail accounts through the iGoogle homepage.

iGoogle users with an AOL, AIM or tunome.com identity can use the new gadget to access their mail. Users in the United States who are already using the existing AOL Mail gadget to preview mail on the iGoogle homepage should click here to add the new gadget and also remove the old gadget from their homepage.

AOL worked closely with Google to enhance the AOL Mail experience on iGoogle, and will continue to work with the company to introduce more gadget functionality. Localized versions of the gadget will launch in several geographies over the next few months.

For more information on the AOL Mail iGoogle gadget, read the post on the iGoogle Developer Blog.