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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…
- monospaced0
- took me a couple of tries to find it, that's not goodmonospaced
- monospaced0
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 createmonospaced
- crap, looks like it's just email, weakmonospaced
- mg330
Infographic induced erections are sure becoming a problem these days.
- i_monk0
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.
- i_monk0
Found it: http://www.vanschneider.com/work…
- doesnotexist0
both of these look like sparrow
- slinky0
just logged in to Alto... checking it out now.
- utopian0
i was just granted access, and FFS it is tied into my gmail account!
- dbloc0
and..........
- sublocked0
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.
- dMullins0
I'm not seeing where exactly the paradigm is being reinvented.
- bm6660
Outlook... Can access any emails sent or received over a month ago.
Alto... Slow as fuck!