As promised, now that the maintenance is completed, here's a brief introduction to some of our newest minis...

1. Alexa - Use this mini to track the adoption of your favorite sites by those users who have the Alexa toolbar.  Here's a look at both yourminis and goowy:
   
   
   
2. Clocks - We've added a couple of new clocks - and you now have the ability to change the time zone for each one allowing you to keep track of time in multiple areas of the world:
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Eventful - A mini to keep you informed of various events in your area.  Just type in your city/state or zip and the type of event you're interested in and you'll get the Eventful list:
   
   
   
   
4. Horoscope - Use this mini to check out your astrological future:
   
   
   
   
5. Rotten Tomatoes - Take a look at what the critics have to say about the latest movies.  You can also see showtimes for your local theaters and watch trailers too:
   
   
   
   
6. ThisNext - Check out what people are currently recommending:
   
   
   
   
7. Webcam - If you know of a webcam, punch in the URL and see what's going on, live! We've added a few default ones in for you - here's one of Shamu at Sea World:
   
   
   
   
8. Woot - Pretty simple - interested in the latest offering at Woot - now it's available in a mini:
   
   
   
   

As you can imagine, this is just a brief overview - we've made a lot of improvements to all of the minis - so play around some bit, and as always we encourage you to provide your feedback in our forums!

We wanted to quickly showcase our ability to allow the minis to be configured and published from within the yourminis.com environment.  To do that, here's a look at just three minis:

The 5 day weather in San Diego:

The Digg Technology section:

YouTube most recent featured videos:

As always, let us know what you think in our forums.

We've been busy in the New Year, and we're pleased to say that our first release of 2007 is almost available - we're planning on releasing it sometime this evening.

We've made a lot of changes to each of the individual minis, adding more consistency to the edit drop down, the color picker, embedding standardized buttons and so forth.  But that's not all... The big news is that we've enabled the ability for you to take any of your individual minis and embed them into your other online identities - MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, your blog - and really any other online property. 

To try this, pick a mini, configure it (color, size, content, etc.) and then click on the edit dropdown in the mini and select "copy mini to web" - this will give you the embed code that you put into your personal page - allowing you to place your customized mini whereever you want!  Once on your page, you're friends will be able to copy your customized mini and add it to their pages as well!

As always, please try this functionality out and let us know in the forums about your thoughts and suggestions...