NY Times 'My Times' Is Your Times

The 'My Times' personalized start page has opened to the website's readership as developers work on rooting out the remaining bugs in the service.

NY Times 'My Times' Is Your Times Cruciverbalists will still have to pay for the newest crossword puzzles, but classic editions of the famed crosswords may be found on the First Look blog they have "substantially improved" the technology used in building the content widgets. Improvements listed include the addition of a crosswords widget, faster search, and a sliding font resizer to adjust the size of the text.

We figured out where Prichard and company received help. The crosswords widget is a Google widget, updated weekly. Prichard's comment about improving the widget technology also hinted at expanding the content My Times readers could access online.

That might suggest broader access to Google's widgets, some of which attract hundreds of thousands of users, like the Google Map, YouTube, and Wikipedia search widgets.