On August 24th, the New York Times finally opened to the public their new “MyTimes” site which lets users personalize a set of pages. Like iGoogle, Netvibes and a number of other sites this is done by letting users drag and drop “widgets” on to a set of pages. Widgets are block of content, such as headlines, RSS feeds, a photo slideshow, a crossword puzzle and so on. (Full disclosure, I designed and wrote most of the code for the front end.)