In an effort to create a more personalized browsing experience, the U.S. Army launched My.Army.Mil, the first user-customized Web site under the Department of Defense. My.Army.Mil will offer visitors the ability to sign-in and create a personalized destination for official Army information, ranging from traditional news stories to up-to-the-minute social media updates. The site launched on Dec. 4th, 2009, at www.army.mil.

After visitors sign-in and authenticate with Google Friend Connect (AIM, Google, Yahoo and OpenID) or AKO (Army Knowledge Online), they will be prompted to add and arrange a series of widgets to suit their specific information needs.

Powering these widgets are open source technologies such as JQuery, PHP, MySQL and API integration.

Featured widgets include:

- An All Services widget with feeds from the Army, Air Force, Marines and Navy

- Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube widgets that sync with many Army organizations

- My Army News widget with customized feeds from commands, corps, divisions, installations, and traditional news sections

- A Features widget highlighting stories of Valor, Army events, history and heritage

- AKO (Army Knowledge Online) widget to log-in to AKO

- Video widget with official Army videos, newscasts and raw footage

- RSS widget that can pull multiple feeds from external sites

For additional information, including media kits, downloads and resources, please visit http://www.Army.mil/MyArmy or contact my.army@us.army.mil.