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AOL's New Alto Client Is Visual Email, and You Don't Need a New Address
pigrabbitbear writes "AOL, still looking to reboot itself from the dialup days, is shooting to actually change the way we deal with email. The company's new service, called Alto, isn't a new email client. You don't have to sign up for yet another email address, because as David Temkin, AOL's senior VP of mail said, 'We need another email address like we need a hole in the head.' Instead, Alto, which is in limited release starting today, is designed to be an intelligent aggregator of the email accounts you already have."
Well, since this means that you'll be reading your @gmail.com email through Alto, instead of through Gmail, it also means that you'll be seeing AOL ads and not Google ads. How long will it be until Google, Yahoo, and Apple change their API or terms of service to ban this?
Right now, I get all of the mail from my gmail account forwarded though my company mail server with no ads, so I'm not so sure if they will.
Thunderbird or Outlook HOW?
Well, I have a few holes in my head that are necessary for my survival. So you're saying Alto is necessary for my survival? Cool.
>> Alto...is...an...aggregator of the email accounts you already have."
Aha - a web-based email client.
Email clients today allow you to easily and effectively organize all of your email Addys in one UI, neatly broken out by Source and Content Folders. So I'm seeing Alto as a big fat question mark, except for the fact that AOL is now a company looking for a raison d'etre.
So they're gonna aggregate everybody's email, suck out the interesting bits, grow huge amounts of data on millions of users... OH, now I see... they wanna be a PoBoy Facebook. Well why didn't you guys just come out and say "Hey we need a cup of data to stay alive, please give a starving corporation a break."
Maybe y'all could invent a round thing to move heavy objects on.
The company's new service, called Alto, isn't a new email client.
Alto, which is in limited release starting today, is designed to be an intelligent aggregator of the email accounts you already have.
Sure as hell sounds like an email client to me.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Quoth, for instance: "Theyâ(TM)re like folders or labels, but managed through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, and allowing users to decide that they want to make large swaths of their email bypass the main inbox entirely, to be saved in Stacks where they can be read later."
So... like folders or labels, but with filters on them! You know, filters, like Thunderbird and gmail have both supported since basically the beginning of time?
Alto isn't a new email client. You don't have to sign up for yet another email address
Now, somebody enlighten me: since when, if one switches email clients, the one needs to get another email address?
Since the definition of "email client" changed from "software you use to read your emails" to "corporation that provides your email service via the web browser," apparently.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
AOL's 3 remaining customers are going to use a new application to aggregate their mail from services that already provide more functionality than AOL does in an attempt to show relevant value and usefulness. One of the 3 customers, known simply as "granma" was quoted as saying "Now I don't have to remember all those complicated things like gee mails and yahooie for when I need to tell my grandson that the guv'ment is going to start charging for email, or if I forward this message bill gates is going to give me a dollar!".
Cool story, would read again, +1, +like & stuff. Need's more bitcoin.
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Well, I have a few holes in my head that are necessary for my survival. So you're saying Alto is necessary for my survival? Cool.
Yup, just stick your noggin in this here clamp and we'll get the install going for you!
Now, should I use the 1/2" wood-bore or the concrete bit? Hmm...
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
... is that you're expected to work 50 hour weeks. Forget annual pay, how much do these companies pay per hour?
A) Wrong thread
B) Base pay = $128,336
$128,336 / 2080 (hours worked in an year @ 40hrs/wk) = $61.70/hr.
@ 50hrs/wk, pay drops to $49.36/hr. Still not bad.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Since we were talking about AOL? You're "one stop shop" to the Interwebs, including their nice fancy proxies?
I am NOT a "one stop shop"!
I would like you to stop insinuating that I am!
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
I tried to request an invitation for my self-hosted address. "That email system is not supported". Thanks. So it's only for people that have more than one account on the above list apparently.
Matthew @ Bytemark Hosting
You're so l33t.
Knowing AOL's prior shit security (Coach Account Access, anyone?) how long until this shit gets cracked and emails get stolen?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Yes, but unfortunately you first have to fly to Palo Alto, where you'll have to use this service on a Xerox Alto.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
You know, if you just stopped subscribing to illegal Malaysian wombat pr0n sites, you wouldn't have to go to such ridiculous lengths to sanitize your email...
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Tor Mail:
http://www.tormail.org/
which leads to the Tor Hidden Service:
http://jhiwjjlqpyawmpjx.onion/
AOL, can you provide a hidden service to match? Aww, I didn't think so.
They had a completely hidden one but for some reason nobody signed up