Entries from Earthling - EarthLink blog tagged with 'myEarthLink'
What's Social Bookmarking Again?
In the video below, Lee breaks down the mechanics, how-to, and advantages of social bookmarking over using plain old web browser favorites or bookmarks.
myEarthLink Radio: Pandora To Rhapsody
Fortunately, we found a like-minded partner in Rhapsody, which allows you to save and listen to the music you already know you like as well as choose from more than 100 radio stations, ranging from acid jazz to afro-pop, bluegrass to bossa nova. Rhapsody requires a monthly subscription to reap all the goodies of the full Rhapsody service, but no worries—there’s plenty to enjoy for free: You can listen to more than 25 stations absolutely free for as long as you like, and if you have a particular song in mind, you can use one of your 25 “free plays” to listen to it on demand.
Do Not Adjust Your Pandora
If you use myEarthLink Radio off of the previous version of my.earthlink.net, today you'll notice that application serves you a message from Pandora CEO Tim Westergren instead of the music you usually get.
When The News River Is Swollen And Teeming
Reader is still a daily addiction for me, but it could be much better. I think there's still a huge opportunity for ours -- how about if we dedicated ourselves to making it the most stress-free and encouraging environment out there for getting through your morning's work?
New Start Page Launches
After a two-month stint in preview mode, today EarthLink's next-generation start page becomes a full-fledged release.
New myEarthLink Part 3: Three LCDs And A Microphone
Here's another update from the team developing EarthLink's new start page. Part 1 set the stage, explained what the project is about, and asked for your thoughts on start page priorities. In Part 2, the team reacted to your feedback and gave us an update. Now, in part 3, Tom talks about our usability testing, and how it helps to shape the product:
We Hate Clutter Too
I'm thrilled that so many of you shared your thoughts about our new myEarthLink start page development project. The MyEarthLink team has been following the conversation on the original Earthling entry about what should live on a start page, and over the weekend Senior Product Manager Tom Harris sat down with all of it to think it through and provide some of his own thoughts about your comments.
Thanks For The Start Page Feedback
Thank you to everyone who contributed an asnwer about what's most important to them on their browser's start page. As you might expect, the answers have been varied, and start pages mean different things to different people. Some set themselves up with a full set of content right there, and others want the barest experience possible. The myEarthLink team has been reading them over with interest, and will be sharing some thoughts with Earthling in the next couple of days.
A myEarthLink Revisioning With A View
For now, the *big question* the team has asked me to ask of you is this: what's the one thing (other than Search, which is a given these days), that is most essential to you on your browser's start page? What do you need every time you open up your browser, without fail?
How Can Computers Help Teach High School Math?
I was sick at home yesterday (much better now, thanks), and links and articles to read piled up a bit. I also want to get in the habit of blogging some of my miscellaneous finds every once in a while....
EarthLink/Helio Round-up
A few updates from the last couple of weeks: Helio Hybrid launches - Hybrid is a new wireless access plan, hardware, and software that lets you connect to the internet via your own regular Wi-Fi if you have it at...
Now Recently Updated Lives On myEarthLink Too
There's now a way to keep an eye on the sources in your Reader from your myEarthLink Start Page. The new Reader widget shows you all of your recently updated Reader feeds at a glance. It's a similar view to what you get on the side within Reader itself, and when you click a source it takes you to that source's content in Reader.
TV Listings Gets a myEarthLink Widget
There's now a myEarthLink widget to go along with our TV Listings application. So now, once you've spilled your guts to the application, you don't have to go back to the full application to see what's on tonight. The widget gives you your favorite shows, best bets for tonight, and top selling DVD picks from Amazon, all on the myEarthLink start page and at a glance.
Reader Update
I just put a brief message up on the myEarthLink Reader blog explaining some issues we noticed this morning with some users. In case anyone's feed is affected, I wanted to put the link up here too.
50 Percent of Moms of Guys Named Dave Use RSS
I was eating lunch and chatting during a break at the BlogHer conference this past weekend, and who did I spy over my right shoulder but RSS/OPML developer Dave Winer. Dave gave Reader a good review a couple of weeks ago, and I took the opportunity to thank him in person, and ask for more feedback.
Updates To MyEarthLink Radio/Pandora
A couple of quick updates rolled out recently to the myEarthLink Radio service on my.earthlink.net:
- 20-minute anonymous listening - If you're interested in trying out myEarthLink Radio before registering as a free user of the service (and you're logged in as a my.EarthLink user), you can now skip the registration and go right in to listening. Just go to the music channel, type in an artist or song name, and hit "listen".
- Pandora user login bridged - If you already have a Pandora login from before we brought it to my.EarthLink, you can now use it to log in to myEarthLink Radio.
Framing myFavorites
Ok, so myFavorites. It's no secret on Earthling that I'm a huge fan of Yahoo's social bookmarking site http://del.icio.us. It's become about as indispensable to me as e-mail, for keeping track of all of the stuff I find online and that people point out to me. I also use it to discover other people's finds, but the part I can't do without is the ability to categorize and hold on to URL's and find them again later. EarthLink saw this as a tool that could be helpful to a much wider set of users than even necessarily knows it exists right now. I think once you're exposed to the simplicity and discoverability of a del.icio.us, it's tough to ever want to go back to browser bookmarks again. And in our internal testing, it was clear to me that in addition to individuals, companies can benefit from its use because when you have a pool of like-minded users, the list of bookmarks they create is really valuable. I'd like for us to be able to offer the public a feed of the things we tag as important.
Pandora Comes To myEarthLink
Just before I left for Anaheim, we launched the first phase of a new partnership with Pandora. In case you don't know what that is, it's a music player and music discovery system rolled in to one. The discovery part has some really interesting smarts behind it, employing a blend of human listening and computery algorithms to help you find music that's similar to the specific songs and artists you like. As far as free ways to listen to and discover new music via the web, Pandora is really the best game in town, and I'm excited that we've brought them to myEarthLink.
Sports Widget Gets A Brief Visit From The UI Fairy
In response to user feedback and their own experiences, Don and engineer Ernest Millan modified the in-game and post-game display, and tested the 'in progress' function to make sure that MLB scores stay updated on the widget throughout the course of the games. One of my favorite enhancements in the batch is the way the most recent play of the game is displayed on rollover as a yellow overlayed box instead of being crowded in to the main display.
Spill Your Guts To EarthLink TV Listings
Remember the sneak preview of TV Listings last week? Well it's now out of Beta and ready to help you track the great James Caan's television career. You can find all of the reruns of my favorite awful show, Las Vegas featuring the triple threat of Josh Duhamel/James Caan/Jim Lesure. Nobody but you, your sofa, and TV Listings needs to know that Deal Or No Deal is how you prefer to unwind. Here's how to go check it out for yourself:
From The Mail Bag: Womens Sports Scores
There are several categories of sports -- not to mention new functionality -- I plan to add to the module and WNBA is among those. That list also includes Men's and Women's College Basketball, College Football (I-A & I-AA), Golf (PGA & LPGA), NASCAR Results, MLS Soccer, and Tennis (Men's & Women's). I would also like to make it easier to track 'Playoffs' for several of these categories and possibly display high level stats from each respective game (when available). As you can see, this is quite a lengthy list!
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