In an effort to avail its customers to the trend-setting 'net labels of today, AOL has opened its platform to social networks like MySpace, Facebook and Bebo. Users may access them directly from its homepage.
As part of its open strategy, AOL today unveiled a new feature allowing users to access social networks including MySpace, Facebook and Bebo directly from the Web portal's redesigned home page.
"My Networks" enables AOL visitors post status updates across all social networks at once. They can also consolidate their profiles and respond to friend requests.
Last month, the flagging portal offered direct access to popular email services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail. In March it opened AIM, its popular free instant-messaging service, to outside developers. Two months later, aspects of AIM were incorporated into social network Bebo, which AOL purchased earlier this year.
