Introducing AOL ALTO 1717 Responses

Last post: 5 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Oct 19, 12, 5:46 a.m.

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• utopian

  AOL May Have Invented Email’s Next UI Paradigm

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  Too Little, Too Late for AOL?
  http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671…

  Oct 19, 12, 5:46 a.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  https://login.altomail.com/login…

  • took me a couple of tries to find it, that's not good– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earOct 19, 12, 7:16 a.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  To be honest, I'm interested now knowing that Google is getting rid of iGoogle. I have used iGoogle as my home page for years, a one-stop glance to see stocks, weather, news, email, etc. This could be the slick replacement.

  • if they have widgets or feeds that other companies can create– monospaced1/2

    crap, looks like it's just email, weak– monospaced2/2

  

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  Dog-earOct 19, 12, 7:22 a.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  Infographic induced erections are sure becoming a problem these days.

  • <– pig

  

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  Dog-earOct 19, 12, 7:26 a.m. – Permalink

• i_monk

  That second screen shot looks a lot like another "let's redesign what email is" project that made the rounds on design sites a month ago. I just can't remember what it was called.

  

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  Dog-earOct 19, 12, 9:06 a.m. – Permalink

• i_monk

  Found it: http://www.vanschneider.com/work…

  • I hope aol paid this guy for his work– zaq1/2

    Anybody else get the impression this guy has never used email before?– monNom2/2

  

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  Dog-earOct 19, 12, 9:08 a.m. – Permalink

• doesnotexist

  both of these look like sparrow

  • Bought by google!– riskunlogic

  

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  Dog-earOct 19, 12, 9:14 a.m. – Permalink

• slinky

  just logged in to Alto... checking it out now.

  

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  Dog-earNov 27, 12, 2:21 p.m. – Permalink

• jtb26

  

  

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  Dog-earNov 27, 12, 2:59 p.m. – Permalink

• kalkal

  If only it didn't have AOL tied to the name.

  • AOL had their chance with me and blew it.– webazoot1/2

    ...and their chance.– webazoot2/2

  

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  Dog-earNov 27, 12, 3:33 p.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  i was just granted access, and FFS it is tied into my gmail account!

  • Isnt that the idea?
    – kalkal

  

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  Dog-earNov 27, 12, 3:34 p.m. – Permalink

• dbloc

  and..........

  

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  Dog-earNov 27, 12, 4:13 p.m. – Permalink

• sublocked

  Looks cool. I want to try it. The web has certainly evolved for the better once we started being able to use our own fonts. I like the move.

  

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  Dog-earNov 27, 12, 5:46 p.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  http://forums.somethingawful.com…

  

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  Dog-earNov 27, 12, 6:12 p.m. – Permalink

• dMullins

  I'm not seeing where exactly the paradigm is being reinvented.

  • just a nice marketing gimmick– utopian

  

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  Dog-earNov 27, 12, 6:40 p.m. – Permalink

• monNom

  speaking of terrible email, anybody tried the new hotmail/outlook.com? worst email ever.

  

  • Hotmail is for old people.– i_monk

  

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  Dog-earNov 27, 12, 10:12 p.m. – Permalink

• bm666

  Outlook... Can access any emails sent or recieved over a month ago.

  Alto... Slow as fuck!

  • huh? only a month? is that a good thing??– CanHasQBN1/2

    It's awful, Gmail saves Everything. Outlook has corrupted everything.
    – bm6662/2

  

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  Dog-earNov 28, 12, 4:04 a.m. – Permalink

• bm666

  Outlook... Can access any emails sent or received over a month ago.

  Alto... Slow as fuck!

  

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  Dog-earNov 28, 12, 4:05 a.m. – Permalink