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Alternion is your personal social communication center. It lets you view your friend updates from other networks, combine and manage all of your own social networking updates, combine and send all of your email and direct messages...
Alternion is your personal social communication center. It lets you view your friend updates from other networks, combine and manage all of your own social networking updates, combine and send all of your email and direct messages, create social address book, post to other services, and stay in touch with your contacts from other services.
After you sign up, you can connect Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and over 220 other social networks and services. Then we automatically import in real-time all text updates, full-size photos, and videos of your contacts from Facebook...
After you sign up, you can connect Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and over 220 other social networks and services. Then we automatically import in real-time all text updates, full-size photos, and videos of your contacts from Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. You can see your friend feeds on your home page, and full-size photos and videos of your friends in the sections Contacts Photos and Contacts Videos.
From other 220+ services (including most of the popular services and networks) we will automatically collect all of your personal updates into a summary news feed on your Alternion profile. Your entire social web will be at your fingerprints. Moreover, your updates and the updates of your contacts can be filtered by type and source.
You can connect any of your IMAP/POP email accounts, and collect all of your emails into Alternion's email interface. There you can view and manage all the messages, as well as send new ones, addressed from one of your existing accounts.
You can post text updates to Facebook and Twitter. Soon we will be adding the ability to post photos, videos, locations, blogs, and other types of content to more services.
You can follow other Alternion users and see their updates, photos, and videos from all of the services which they connected.
In the Contacts section you will see all of your contacts from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Alternion, including their information and latest updates.
In your Settings you can add your accounts on other networks, as well as manage who can see your updates, photos, and videos from your accounts, including your personal information on Alternion.
With Alternion you get much more than aggregation of your social accounts. You can: View, comment, and share your friend updates from other networks. View, comment, and share full-size photos and videos of ...
With Alternion you get much more than aggregation of your social accounts. You can:
And we're just getting started! There are many more exciting features in the works, so stay tuned. Our goal is to create a social communication center where you will be able to easily stay in touch with all of your contacts from other networks, and access the latest news.
We will keep you posted about new features in our corporate blog and newsletters.
The web is becoming more fragmented every day with the numbers of user accounts, contacts, friend updates, photos, videos, blogs, email and instant messages increasing exponentially. Our goal is to help you put all these pieces ...
The web is becoming more fragmented every day with the numbers of user accounts, contacts, friend updates, photos, videos, blogs, email and instant messages increasing exponentially. Our goal is to help you put all these pieces together. Alternion provides you with efficient tools to manage all of your web activities, news, content, and contacts. You don't need to install anything, Alternion is a free web service that works in your browser.
Here are some of the examples how Alternion can help you do that:
We intend to keep the core of our service free. At the same time, we plan to experiment with different models (including advertisements and premium services) as we grow and learn from your feedback what special features we can ...
We intend to keep the core of our service free. At the same time, we plan to experiment with different models (including advertisements and premium services) as we grow and learn from your feedback what special features we can provide to our community to improve their Alternion experience.
You can share and rate ideas and problems on our community support forum, or you can privately email your comments to our email addresses listed on the Contact page.
You can share and rate ideas and problems on our community support forum, or you can privately email your comments to our email addresses listed on the Contact page.
Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 7+, Opera. During our beta period you may notice some small bugs when viewing our site in Internet Explorer or Opera, but they will be fixed soon.
Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 7+, Opera. During our beta period you may notice some small bugs when viewing our site in Internet Explorer or Opera, but they will be fixed soon.
Not yet, but we plan to develop them. We are a very small team, and are focusing now on the Alternion website. We plan to consider other platforms in the future and will be announcing our plans in our blog and newsletters.
Not yet, but we plan to develop them. We are a very small team, and are focusing now on the Alternion website. We plan to consider other platforms in the future and will be announcing our plans in our blog and newsletters.
We do not have a public API yet. We plan to develop one, but don't currently have a specific timeline. We are a very small team... oh, we already said that :)
We do not have a public API yet. We plan to develop one, but don't currently have a specific timeline. We are a very small team... oh, we already said that :)
So far we have only used funds from our founders and friends. We are open to new funding opportunities, and are looking forward to meeting people and organizations who share our vision of a social communication center. If you are ...
So far we have only used funds from our founders and friends. We are open to new funding opportunities, and are looking forward to meeting people and organizations who share our vision of a social communication center. If you are interested in exploring funding opportunities in Alternion, please contact us.
We love you, too! There are many ways you can help us, and we are glad you asked :) You can give us your feedback about your Alternion experience on our community support forum. You can tweet about Alternion or share our Facebook ...
We love you, too! There are many ways you can help us, and we are glad you asked :) You can give us your feedback about your Alternion experience on our community support forum. You can tweet about Alternion or share our Facebook page among your friends. You can invite your friends and family to join Alternion, and you can write about us in your blog. But most importantly, just use our site and enjoy it, and it will make us very happy.
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Currently we are in a closed beta and you need to have an invite to create an account and get access to the Alternion website. In the future we plan to open access to some pages (e.g. public user profiles, public photos and videos...
Currently we are in a closed beta and you need to have an invite to create an account and get access to the Alternion website. In the future we plan to open access to some pages (e.g. public user profiles, public photos and videos, etc) to people without an Alternion account.
You can request an invite on our home page. If you are a blogger who wants to write about Alternion, please contact us at info@alternion.com and we will send you a batch invite for your readers.
You can request an invite on our home page. If you are a blogger who wants to write about Alternion, please contact us at info@alternion.com and we will send you a batch invite for your readers.
To enjoy all of the Alternion features, connect your social accounts from other networks on the Settings Services page, as well as your IMAP/POP email accounts on the Settings Emails page. You can manage who can see your updates ...
To enjoy all of the Alternion features, connect your social accounts from other networks on the Settings Services page, as well as your IMAP/POP email accounts on the Settings Emails page. You can manage who can see your updates from your social networks. Your emails won't be visible to anyone on Alternion.
That's it, now you can enjoy your Alternion experience!
This is only a brief glance of what you can do on Alternion. After the real-time aggregation of all this content, including your social graph, you will be able to comment, post, share, retweet, mention, send messages, and much more.
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You can add your accounts from all of the 220+ supported services in your settings. Simply click the service name and you will be either redirected to another service for authorization (for Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr) or will ...
You can add your accounts from all of the 220+ supported services in your settings. Simply click the service name and you will be either redirected to another service for authorization (for Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr) or will be prompted to enter your username or user ID in the popup (for other supported services).
In your settings click the trashcan icon to remove a service from your Alternion account. All of your previous posts from this service will be removed from Alternion and we will not collect or display any of your future posts from...
In your settings click the trashcan icon to remove a service from your Alternion account. All of your previous posts from this service will be removed from Alternion and we will not collect or display any of your future posts from this service.
Absolutely! You can connect multiple accounts from any of the supported services, including Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. Please note that Twitter allows to switch to another account when you are signed in to Twitter and ...
Absolutely! You can connect multiple accounts from any of the supported services, including Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. Please note that Twitter allows to switch to another account when you are signed in to Twitter and authorizing it with an application, but Facebook and Flickr don't. Therefore, when you are adding additional accounts from Facebook or Flickr make sure that you are either signed off of Facebook/Flickr or signed in with the account you are adding.
Yes, but you can only connect a specific external account from Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr to one Alternion account. In other words, you cannot connect your Twitter account to two different Alternion accounts. The reason is that ...
Yes, but you can only connect a specific external account from Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr to one Alternion account. In other words, you cannot connect your Twitter account to two different Alternion accounts. The reason is that we need to have unique user IDs when we update news feeds from the services with two-way integration (Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr). There are no such limitations for other supported networks.
Currently we support Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr with two-way integration, and more than 220 other services with one-way integration. Going forward, we plan on supporting more services, especially services with two-way ...
Currently we support Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr with two-way integration, and more than 220 other services with one-way integration. Going forward, we plan on supporting more services, especially services with two-way integration.
We fully integrate with the services with two-way integration (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, more services coming soon). This means that from these services we pull not only your personal updates, but also updates (news feed) and ...
We fully integrate with the services with two-way integration (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, more services coming soon). This means that from these services we pull not only your personal updates, but also updates (news feed) and full-size photos and videos of your contacts, as well as your social graph on these services. You can also post your updates to these services, including retweets and mentions for Twitter, comment on updates and on photos and videos of your contacts, and more. We connect these services via their public APIs.
For the services with one-way integration we pull only your personal updates, i.e. your entire "profile feed", but without your "news feed" with the updates of your contacts. And you are not able to post updates to these services from Alternion.
We are working on connecting more services via APIs, which will allow you to see updates and content of your contacts from the greater number of external services, as well as to extend your social address book to additional services.
It depends on the specific service and may include your posts, comments, bookmarks, reviews, uploaded photos and videos, all your activities together, etc. In the Services section, you can see the connection type for each service...
It depends on the specific service and may include your posts, comments, bookmarks, reviews, uploaded photos and videos, all your activities together, etc. In the Services section, you can see the connection type for each service ("Read" for the services with one-way integration, and "Read/Post" for the services with two-way integration), and which data we pull from each service. Select "show details" to see all the data for all supported services. You will also see tips for each individual service in the popup when you connect this service.
Currently you can connect up to 6 accounts from Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter, and up to 20 accounts from other 220+ supported services.
Currently you can connect up to 6 accounts from Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter, and up to 20 accounts from other 220+ supported services.
Not yet, but we are planning to add support for Facebook Pages in the future.
Not yet, but we are planning to add support for Facebook Pages in the future.
Our intention is to support as many external services and networks as possible while providing our users with the best possible experience. Thus our strategy has been as follows: 1. We have built the Alternion platform in ...
Our intention is to support as many external services and networks as possible while providing our users with the best possible experience. Thus our strategy has been as follows:
1. We have built the Alternion platform in such a way that we can easily add any network, which presents activity feeds of their users in a proper RSS format. So far we have identified more than 220 of such services, and have connected them to Alternion with one-way integration. Please let us know via our community support or by contacting us directly if we have missed any of your favorite networks.
2. Our long-term focus is supporting more networks with open and well-documented APIs. Such services can be connected with two-way integration, which results in more capabilities for our users (including updates from your contacts on these services, ability to post to these services, and more). We have decided to initially focus on building our core platform and features. So far we have integrated Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr via their public APIs, but we will soon be adding integration via APIs for more services. Our nearest plans include two-way integration with YouTube, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Digg, Myspace, and many other services. Please let us know what services you want us to add first.
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No, we don't. We connect Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr via a password-less OAuth authentication and authorization. You will be redirected to these services for authorization, and will not be entering your passwords to these ...
No, we don't. We connect Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr via a password-less OAuth authentication and authorization. You will be redirected to these services for authorization, and will not be entering your passwords to these services on Alternion. All the other 220+ services, which we support, we also connect without asking for your passwords, you only enter your username or user ID.
We connect email accounts via IMAP and POP protocols (depending on the email service), thus we have to ask for your passwords on these services. We use industry-standard encryption to ensure safety of your data and prevent any ...
We connect email accounts via IMAP and POP protocols (depending on the email service), thus we have to ask for your passwords on these services. We use industry-standard encryption to ensure safety of your data and prevent any unauthorized access.
Unfortunately, not many email services allow a password-less OAuth authentication. In the future we will be adding this type of authentication for Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, as well as for other email services when OAuth authentication for them becomes available.
Absolutely. In the Services section you can determine for each connected service who may see your stream from this service, including your text updates, photos and videos. These settings will also apply to your updates and photo/...
Absolutely. In the Services section you can determine for each connected service who may see your stream from this service, including your text updates, photos and videos. These settings will also apply to your updates and photo/video uploads on Alternion.
Anyone on Alternion can subscribe to follow your updates from your connected services, but you can decide (using the options listed below) who is allowed to actually see your updates.
We offer three levels of privacy for each of your connected services:
If you choose the first option (Everyone), then anyone can see your updates, photos, and videos from this service. For all services except Facebook, the default setting is "Everyone" while the default setting for Facebook is "Only People I Follow".
The second option (Only People I Follow) means that you need to follow someone on Alternion to allow them to see your updates from this service.
If you choose the third option (Only Me), then nobody will be able to see your updates from this service. This option allows you to use Alternion as your personal aggregation center and social dashboard, without sharing your updates, photos, and videos with others.
Don't forget to click Apply Settings after you choose the desired settings for each of your connected services. You can change your settings anytime, and new settings will apply to all of your updates, including the old ones.
You can manage these settings in the Privacy Settings section. For some general information (such as your interests & hobbies) the default settings are "Everyone". For more sensitive data (such as who can send you messages...
You can manage these settings in the Privacy Settings section.
For some general information (such as your interests & hobbies) the default settings are "Everyone". For more sensitive data (such as who can send you messages, who can post on your profile, and who can see your contact information) the default settings are "Only People I Follow". For your email address the default setting is "Only Me". You can change these settings anytime.
For the connected services you can indicate if you want to show a link to your profile on these services on your Alternion profile. You can do that in the Services section. In the future we will be adding the ability to customize ...
For the connected services you can indicate if you want to show a link to your profile on these services on your Alternion profile. You can do that in the Services section. In the future we will be adding the ability to customize privacy options for different groups of your contacts.
You can do that in the Activities section. You can change these settings anytime. When you change them, the new settings will only apply to your new activities.
You can do that in the Activities section. You can change these settings anytime. When you change them, the new settings will only apply to your new activities.
You can do that in the Notifications section, for both the notifications sent by email and for the notifications sent to your Alternion profile as direct messages.
You can do that in the Notifications section, for both the notifications sent by email and for the notifications sent to your Alternion profile as direct messages.
You can do any of that in the Account section.
You can do any of that in the Account section.
You can do that in the Account section. We are sorry to see you go, but we hope you'll be back! Please note that when you delete your Alternion account all of your updates and content from your connected services will be ...
You can do that in the Account section. We are sorry to see you go, but we hope you'll be back!
Please note that when you delete your Alternion account all of your updates and content from your connected services will be deleted from Alternion permanently. The same will happen to your updates, information, and content, which you uploaded directly to Alternion. Of course, when you delete your Alternion account nothing will happen to your information and accounts on other services. We will only delete what was imported to Alternion, but we have no influence over your accounts elsewhere.
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In the News Feed (your home page) you will see updates of all of your contacts from Alternion and services with two-way integration (currently Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. More services coming soon).
In the News Feed (your home page) you will see updates of all of your contacts from Alternion and services with two-way integration (currently Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. More services coming soon).
You can post updates simultaneously to Facebook, Twitter, and Alternion using the field "What's new" either on your home page or on your profile page. Your Alternion updates will always post to Alternion. By default they will also...
You can post updates simultaneously to Facebook, Twitter, and Alternion using the field "What's new" either on your home page or on your profile page. Your Alternion updates will always post to Alternion. By default they will also post to Facebook and Twitter, but you can uncheck these two services when posting new updates.
Keep in mind that the character limit of your post is dictated by whichever service has the shortest limit. So if you are simultaneously posting through Alternion to Facebook and Twitter, it's limited to Twitter's 140 characters. To Facebook only, the limit is 420. If you are not posting outside of Alternion, our limit is a whole 1,000 characters.
Yes. Your comments and likes on Facebook posts will be posted on your Facebook friends' walls (or on your wall, if you commented or liked your own posts). Your replies or retweets on Twitter posts will appear on Twitter. Moreover...
Yes. Your comments and likes on Facebook posts will be posted on your Facebook friends' walls (or on your wall, if you commented or liked your own posts). Your replies or retweets on Twitter posts will appear on Twitter. Moreover, you can also comment on the detailed photo and video pages of your contacts from Facebook and Flickr. These comments will be posted back to these services as comments on their respective detailed photo and video pages.
Comments or likes on all your connected services' posts and detailed photo and video pages will also publish on Alternion.
Absolutely! If you connected multiple accounts from Facebook and/or Twitter, you can post simultaneously to all of these accounts, or you can select specific accounts where you want to post your updates.
Absolutely! If you connected multiple accounts from Facebook and/or Twitter, you can post simultaneously to all of these accounts, or you can select specific accounts where you want to post your updates.
The All Contacts tab, which is active by default, shows updates of all of your contacts from Alternion and services with two-way integration (currently Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, but more services coming soon). ...
The All Contacts tab, which is active by default, shows updates of all of your contacts from Alternion and services with two-way integration (currently Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr, but more services coming soon). Specifically, you will see Alternion updates from the people you follow on Alternion, Facebook updates from your Facebook friends, tweets from the people you follow on Twitter, new videos and activities from your YouTube contacts, and new photos from your Flickr contacts.
The Alternion Contacts tab shows updates from the people you follow on Alternion including all of the services which they connected (220+ external services are supported), provided that they made these updates visible in their privacy settings on Alternion.
You can play videos from Alternion, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Howcast, Viddler, Sevenload, Revver, and Smotri.com directly in the News Feed. In addition, you can play videos uploaded to Alternion, as well as Facebook video uploads...
You can play videos from Alternion, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Howcast, Viddler, Sevenload, Revver, and Smotri.com directly in the News Feed. In addition, you can play videos uploaded to Alternion, as well as Facebook video uploads by your friends, on their individual video pages. On individual video pages you can also see video details, other videos from this contact, view and post comments, and more.
Left sidebar allows you to filter updates by type (status updates, photos, etc) and Source (Alternion, Facebook, Twitter, etc). You can select one or several filters, e.g. you can choose to see new photos and videos of your ...
Left sidebar allows you to filter updates by type (status updates, photos, etc) and Source (Alternion, Facebook, Twitter, etc). You can select one or several filters, e.g. you can choose to see new photos and videos of your contacts from Facebook and Flickr. To select several filters, click the "+" sign on the right of the chosen filters. To deselect one of the filters from the selected group, click the "x" sign on the chosen filters.
If you connected multiple accounts from Facebook, Twitter, and/or Flickr you can select to see updates of your contacts from all of these accounts, or only from some of your accounts.
You can customize the "Source" filters in the Alternion Contacts and Community tabs by clicking "Manage Filters" in the left menu. Simply select appropriate checkboxes in the popup that appears, to add or remove sources.
You can customize the "Source" filters in the Alternion Contacts and Community tabs by clicking "Manage Filters" in the left menu. Simply select appropriate checkboxes in the popup that appears, to add or remove sources.
Your status updates, comments, or content (photos, videos, links, etc.) on external services cannot be deleted from Alternion. To delete them, you will need to visit these services.
Your status updates, comments, or content (photos, videos, links, etc.) on external services cannot be deleted from Alternion. To delete them, you will need to visit these services.
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Your Alternion profile automatically collects and updates in real time all of your updates and content from your accounts on other services. It allows you to bring your entire web activity to Alternion where you can manage your ...
Your Alternion profile automatically collects and updates in real time all of your updates and content from your accounts on other services. It allows you to bring your entire web activity to Alternion where you can manage your online identity.
In other words, your Alternion profile is your social business card, and probably the most complete one.
You can connect all of your accounts from 220+ services supported by Alternion. All of your updates from these accounts will be automatically collected on your Alternion profile, and you can filter them by type and source. ...
You can connect all of your accounts from 220+ services supported by Alternion. All of your updates from these accounts will be automatically collected on your Alternion profile, and you can filter them by type and source.
We also automatically collect and present on your profile the following information:
You can also enter your personal information such as name, bio, location, website, interests & hobbies, contact information, personal details, and your education & career details.
In the upper right corner of your profile you can see your statistics (numbers of your updates, connected accounts, following, followers, photos, and videos).
In the Profile Info section, you can edit your personal and contact information, as well as your other details, by clicking the corresponding links either in the left sidebar or in the central column.
In the Profile Info section, you can edit your personal and contact information, as well as your other details, by clicking the corresponding links either in the left sidebar or in the central column.
In your settings in the Services section, you can choose whether you want to show a link to your external account on your Alternion profile for each of your connected accounts. Please note that you need to separately select ...
In your settings in the Services section, you can choose whether you want to show a link to your external account on your Alternion profile for each of your connected accounts. Please note that you need to separately select whether you want to show updates from your accounts on your profile.
In your settings in the Services and Privacy Settings sections, you can control: who can see your updates from each of your connected accounts, who can see your personal and contact information, who...
In your settings in the Services and Privacy Settings sections, you can control:
When you click "Customize profile design" on your profile page you can customize your profile design with a plenty of themes and backgrounds, or upload your own background picture.
When you click "Customize profile design" on your profile page you can customize your profile design with a plenty of themes and backgrounds, or upload your own background picture.
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In your Email Settings you can connect any of your IMAP/POP email accounts. In the Email Messages section, we will collect in real time all of your emails from the connected services. You will be able to filter emails by source, ...
In your Email Settings you can connect any of your IMAP/POP email accounts. In the Email Messages section, we will collect in real time all of your emails from the connected services. You will be able to filter emails by source, send emails, and much more. Your connected email accounts and email messages are always private.
When you add an email account in Email Settings, Alternion will try to automatically connect it with the default settings for this email provider. If that doesn't work, you can manually enter settings for your IMAP or POP email ...
When you add an email account in Email Settings, Alternion will try to automatically connect it with the default settings for this email provider. If that doesn't work, you can manually enter settings for your IMAP or POP email account (look for the "advanced settings" link):
Please contact your email provider for the correct settings (usually they can be found in Help or Account sections).
In your Email Settings, click the trashcan icon to remove (i.e. disconnect from Alternion) any of your email accounts. All of your messages from this account, as well as your email address and password will be removed from the ...
In your Email Settings, click the trashcan icon to remove (i.e. disconnect from Alternion) any of your email accounts. All of your messages from this account, as well as your email address and password will be removed from the Alternion servers, and we will not collect any future emails from this account.
For each email account you can enter an Account name (i.e. a nickname for this account, such as Gmail Personal, Gmail Business, AOL, etc). It will be seen only by you and will allow you to filter your emails by accounts. Also, for...
For each email account you can enter an Account name (i.e. a nickname for this account, such as Gmail Personal, Gmail Business, AOL, etc). It will be seen only by you and will allow you to filter your emails by accounts. Also, for each email account you can enter a 'From' name (e.g. Steven Brubeck), which will be seen by the recipients of your email messages sent from this account via Alternion.
You can change these names directly in your Email Settings. Just click the blue names in the columns Account Name and 'From' Name, to make edits instantly.
If you added several email accounts, you can select 'Primary email', which will be your default email address for sending emails via Alternion. When you compose a new email message you can change the outgoing email address to another one of your connected email accounts.
Yes! You can also filter your inbox by email accounts, as well as send messages from any of your accounts, organize folders, and much more.
Yes! You can also filter your inbox by email accounts, as well as send messages from any of your accounts, organize folders, and much more.
When you click "Compose Message" in the left column of the Email Messages section, you will see a form for composing and sending a new message. By default it will have your primary email account in the "From" field, but you can ...
When you click "Compose Message" in the left column of the Email Messages section, you will see a form for composing and sending a new message. By default it will have your primary email account in the "From" field, but you can change it to any of your other email accounts, which you connected to Alternion.
We neither archive nor store your email messages. All messages are received dynamically when you login to Alternion.
We neither archive nor store your email messages. All messages are received dynamically when you login to Alternion.
We only check your email messages when you login to Alternion. Currently we don't download email messages in the background, so you need to refresh the page to get the new ones. We will upload new messages every 15 minutes, but ...
We only check your email messages when you login to Alternion. Currently we don't download email messages in the background, so you need to refresh the page to get the new ones. We will upload new messages every 15 minutes, but you can do a manual refresh at any time by clicking 'Check Mail' button.
Most of the basic email features are supported, including: Reply, Reply All, Forward Delete, Mark as Spam Add Star, Remove Star Mark as Read/Unread Folders (labels) for IMAP email ...
Most of the basic email features are supported, including:
We also have some additional features, such as the ability to filter emails by source (including the ability to select several sources). Plenty of additional features are in development.
Currently we are not supporting sending attachments (although you can receive emails with attachments via Alternion), but will be adding this feature soon.
Absolutely! We are building a social communication center and want our users to be able to utilize all of their communication channels. This includes constant enhancements of their Alternion email aggregation experience, including...
Absolutely! We are building a social communication center and want our users to be able to utilize all of their communication channels. This includes constant enhancements of their Alternion email aggregation experience, including:
and much more.
Please let us know if there's anything really important you'd like to see ASAP.
Currently in the Direct Messages section, you can see all of your direct messages on Alternion, as well as reply to them, view full history of your messages with a particular person, and more. Soon we will be adding aggregation of...
Currently in the Direct Messages section, you can see all of your direct messages on Alternion, as well as reply to them, view full history of your messages with a particular person, and more. Soon we will be adding aggregation of your direct messages from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other networks to this section.
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In the Contacts section you can see information about each of your contacts from the services with two-way integration (currently Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Alternion. More services coming soon). Almost immediately after you ...
In the Contacts section you can see information about each of your contacts from the services with two-way integration (currently Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Alternion. More services coming soon). Almost immediately after you connect your external accounts, you will see a list of all of your contacts from these services.
In other words, this is your social address book, which integrates your entire social graph from the other services that you use.
Information of your contacts from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Alternion. Latest updates of each of your contacts from these services. Ability to filter your contacts by service (Facebook, Twitter, ...
In the future we will be adding a great deal of new features to this section, so stay tuned!
In the "Friends & Following" group we display posts from your "closest" contacts, i.e. your friends from Facebook, contacts from Flickr, and people you follow on Twitter and Alternion. In the "Followers" group we display posts...
In the "Friends & Following" group we display posts from your "closest" contacts, i.e. your friends from Facebook, contacts from Flickr, and people you follow on Twitter and Alternion. In the "Followers" group we display posts from your followers from Twitter and Alternion.
Because of the Twitter API limits, when you connect your Twitter account we are able to import up to 500 of your latest Twitter "following" and up to 100 of your latest Twitter followers. Each time you login to Alternion, we will ...
Because of the Twitter API limits, when you connect your Twitter account we are able to import up to 500 of your latest Twitter "following" and up to 100 of your latest Twitter followers. Each time you login to Alternion, we will be adding up to 100 of your new following and up to 100 of your new followers (i.e. your new Twitter contacts, which you created after you connected Alternion).
Not yet, but we are planning to add these features in the near future. We will keep you posted about our new features in our blog and newsletters.
Not yet, but we are planning to add these features in the near future. We will keep you posted about our new features in our blog and newsletters.
In the section Contacts Photos you can see photos and photo albums of your contacts from Facebook, Flickr, and Alternion. We are planning to add support for Picasa, Photobucket, Twitpic, Plixi, Yfrog, and some other photo sharing ...
In the section Contacts Photos you can see photos and photo albums of your contacts from Facebook, Flickr, and Alternion. We are planning to add support for Picasa, Photobucket, Twitpic, Plixi, Yfrog, and some other photo sharing services in the future.
When you select the All Contacts tab you will see photos of all of your contacts from Facebook, Flickr, and Alternion. Specifically, you will see Facebook photos of your Facebook friends, Flickr photos of your Flickr contacts, and Alternion photos of the people you follow on Alternion.
When you select the Alternion Contacts tab you will see photos of the people you follow on Alternion from all of the services which they connected, provided that they made these photos visible in their privacy settings on Alternion.
When you click any photo in this section, you will see a detailed page of this photo, including the full-size photo, photo information, and more. You can comment on the photo and your comments will be posted to the respective service (Facebook, Flickr, or Alternion).
In the left menu of the section Contacts Photos you can select Viewing Mode: Photo Albums and see photos of your contacts as photo albums.
In the left menu of the section Contacts Photos you can select Viewing Mode: Photo Albums and see photos of your contacts as photo albums.
In the Contacts Videos section you can see videos of your contacts from Facebook, YouTube and Alternion, and filter them by service and video category. We are planning to add support for Vimeo, and some other video sharing ...
In the Contacts Videos section you can see videos of your contacts from Facebook, YouTube and Alternion, and filter them by service and video category. We are planning to add support for Vimeo, and some other video sharing services in the future.
When you select the All Contacts tab you will see videos of all of your contacts from Facebook, YouTube and Alternion.
When you select the Alternion Contacts tab you will see videos from the people you follow on Alternion from all of the services which they connected, provided that they made these videos visible in their privacy settings on Alternion.
When you click any video from this section, you will see a detailed page of this video, including the full-size video, video information, and more. You can comment on the video, and your comments will be posted to the respective service (Facebook, YouTube or Alternion).
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In the Explore People section you can browse and search all Alternion users, including the option of advanced search. We will soon be adding the ability to find your friends from other services who are using Alternion (...
In the Explore People section you can browse and search all Alternion users, including the option of advanced search.
We will soon be adding the ability to find your friends from other services who are using Alternion (including your friends from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, and other email clients). You will also be able to import your address books to invite friends to join Alternion. Rest assured we will never email your friends (or post on their walls or send them direct messages, etc) without your explicit consent.
You can browse and search Alternion users by name, gender, age, location, personal details, education details, career details, and interests. For each search query you can see quick information about the users (name, location) or ...
You can browse and search Alternion users by name, gender, age, location, personal details, education details, career details, and interests. For each search query you can see quick information about the users (name, location) or detailed information (name, username, location, bio, website).
In the Contacts Photos and Contacts Videos sections you can see a field "Filter by contact" on top. When you enter a name of a certain contact, you will see all of the photos or videos of this contact. Alternatively, you ...
In the Contacts Photos and Contacts Videos sections you can see a field "Filter by contact" on top. When you enter a name of a certain contact, you will see all of the photos or videos of this contact.
Alternatively, you can click on the username to see all of the photos or videos of this contact.
The Girl from Ipanema performed by Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz.
The Girl from Ipanema performed by Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz.
Nothing. We were just curious if you read all the questions :)
Nothing. We were just curious if you read all the questions :)