AOL Journals: First Look

Matt has some 'bad' (his words - and discussing the visual quality rather than their function) screencaps of AOL Journals set-up over at Blackbeltjones.

I can't help but notice the initial similarities to a certain application that some of us already know and love.

Obviously of course, there are bound to be some, and the site-structure set-up looks amazingly similar, but it is looking pretty ok at the moment. In fact the use of consistent AOL'y interface elements give it a certain feel that I think would be appreciated by the current throng of AOL users who would have been scared of something a little more 'webby'.

The actual text entry on his examples look a little 'distant' from the graphical frame around it at the moment, but if it helps the massive get up and online then it certainly can't be bad.