yourminis Widget API

General Overview

yourminis (www.yourminis.com) is an enterprise widget platform which simplifies the development, syndication, and measurement of widgets for content owners & 3rd party developers.

The yourminis widget API (wAPI) is an Actionscript 3.0 Library that allows flash content owners to quickly and easily create engaging widgets that run on both the web and desktop.

Quick Links

There are a variety of resources to help you learn about building widgets on our platform, as well as connect with other yourminis developers.

• Learning Center - All the documentation and tutorials you will need to learn our API
• Resources - Downloads and tools for working with our API
• Forum - Get answers to your questions or connect with the rest of the developer community
• Blog - Read about events, updates, contests, and more

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Related Articles & Blogs

• Building Widgets on the yourminis Platform
  Article by Brice Mason
  April 3, 2008
  AOL's recent acquisition of the yourminis widget API (wAPI), a widget development platform, brings an important and exciting new addition to an already rich suite of developer tools from AOL. This article will serve as an introduction to the yourminis widget development platform, a framework and supporting tool set that eases the development of Adobe Flash and Flex-based widgets. Because I'll be walking you through the development of an example application using yourminis, some Flash development knowledge is assumed. However, you do not need particular expertise in Flash to follow along the life cycle of a widget developed using the yourminis platform tools. More...
• Goowy, Desktop & Minis
  Blog by Mark Blomsma
  February 13, 2008
  A cool new technology stack is added to the AOL arsenal as AOL acquires Goowy. Goowy offers a web based desktop solution which out of the box offers Instant Messaging integration, e-mail and online file storage. After reading about the acquisition I went and created a Goowy account to check it out. Read the full post.
• Why Goowy?
  Blog by Joel Tulloch
  March 11, 2008
  A few weeks ago, Mark Blomsma wrote a post which introduced the Goowy desktop, one of the newest additions to the AOL family. Over the next few posts, I will go beyond the brief introduction and discuss some of the practical issues you will encounter while developing for this platform. To set that up, though, I’ll first try to answer the question that I asked in the title. Read the full post.
• Goowy and Yourminis
  Blog by John Fronckowiak
  March 17, 2008
  Over the past couple of weeks Mark Blomsma and Joe Tulloch have discussed the Goowy desktop and yourminis widget API. Over my next few blog postings I’d like to dig into the process of developing your own widgets with the yourminis API, so let’s get started! Read the full post.
• yourminis Development Options
  Blog by John Fronckowiak
  March 31, 2008
  Joel Tulloch and I have been discussing yourminis and Goowy in our past few blog postings. We will be continuing that discussion on Mondays for the next few weeks. Last week I introduced Goowy and yourmini development, showing you how to set up your Flash environment to develop your own gadgets with yourminis. This week I’d like to discuss your choice of yourminis development environments, Flex vs. Flash, and if you’re new to either Flash or Flex development how ActionScript compares with JavaScript development. Read the full post.