Linkive - Help
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Getting Started |
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New to Linkive?....
Well this is the place that you like to be before knocking around the
tabs, links and buttons that you may find all around. As we say, Linkive is
all about how best you can share and view links within your network of
friends. And it is quite simple to get started and get used to it. The first thing to do is to create an account and install your Linkive browser toolbar. As of now Linkive toolbar is available for Mozilla Firefox and IE browsers alone. When you are a new user and do not have any links shared to you by your friends, what you view on your home-page is two windows showing ‘the most shared’ links in one and ‘most recently shared links’ in the other. 
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The obvious first step before beginning with
your link sharing business is to have friends in your friends list.
You can do that by going to the contacts page. You will get a window
like this when you click on the ‘import contacts’ link.  >>>> 
And as you give you e-mail id and password your contacts get imported and listed in an alphabetical order. You can check the boxes against the contacts to invite them to be a part of your Linkive network. Also, you can search for existing users by using the search box provided in all the pages.  Alternatively, the search option in the friends tab, in the left-panel of the home-page, also allows you to search for your friends by giving name or e-mail id.  Okay, now that you have imported your contact list from other mail accounts and have invited few of your friends to join your Linkive network, you can go ahead with the sharing once you start having friends in your friends list. You can find more information related to contacts and creating groups in the contacts section of the FAQ. |
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Now that have friends to share with, you can go ahead and share whatever link you find while browsing the internet. Clicking on the ‘share’ button in the browser toolbar pops-up a window, which allows you to share the link with your friend/s. You can as well assign as many labels as you wish and also give a brief description about the link. This helps your friends know better, as to what the link may contain.  |
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All your favorite links, which you have shared with your friends, get listed down in the ‘Favorite Links’ page. You can distribute your URLs to various folders as well as assign various Labels. Each folder can further be labeled, so that URLs with the same label get listed under that folder by default. A URL can belong to only one folder, while it can have multiple labels. Additionally, using the Linkive toolbar one can import his bookmarks/favorite links from the browser(Currently restricted to Mozilla alone). |
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It contains all the links shared by your network and they are paginated. The left panel in the page shows links as given below. 
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 The Linkive toolbar has the following functions:
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There is a 'feedback' link at the bottom of each page. Clicking on it pops-up a window which allows you to submit your feedback. Also, you can mail your comments and feedback to feedback@Linkive.com |
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Q) What is Linkive
all about?
Ans. Linkive is all about sharing your favorite
URLs with your friends and viewing what your trusted friends have
shared with you in-turn. Unlike in public sharing and rating, here one
can be assured of the importance and usefulness of the information, as
you get it only from a genuine network of friends.
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Your profile contains details which are
viewable by anyone in the Linkive community. These details help people
in finding you recognizing you easily.
Q) How do I
view/edit my profile details?
Ans. The ‘Home’ page as well as the
settings page has a display of your profile with view and edit
options. The ‘edit’ throws up a window with existing details and
allows you to change and save those details. In the ‘Home’ page your
profile details are displayed in the ‘Profile’ tab of the left panel.
Q) How do I
change my profile picture?
Ans. In the ‘Settings’ page you can find
your profile displayed for viewing and editing. In the left panel,
under the profile picture, you can find photo ‘change’ and ‘delete’
options for your profile picture.
Q) How do I
change my account password?
Ans. The left panel in the ‘Settings’
page displays your profile picture and options to change your password
as well as profile details.
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You can find and invite contacts you want
to be part of your Linkive network by exploring the extended
network of you existing friends, by using search and also by finding
them in your contact list. Your contacts, in the ‘Contacts’ page, are
sorted as per the mail-ids from which they have been imported. Also,
put your friends into different sharing groups so as to make your
sharing a lot more convenient.
Q) How do I add
a new contact to my contacts list?
Ans.
Q) How do I
add/import contacts to my contacts list?
Ans. Your Linkive browser toolbar is your best buddy to
help this do for you. Keep yourself signed-into your Linkive
toolbar; and then when you sign-in to your
gmail/yahoo/rediff/Linked-in account, your new contacts automatically
get imported into your Linkive account. Alternatively, you can also
import your contacts from gmail/yahoo/rediff/Linked-in accounts while
on the Linkive
site. The ‘Friends’ tab in the left panel of your ‘Home’ page gives
you an ‘import’ option to manually enter your mail-id and retrieve
your contacts to your contact list.
Q) How do I
find friends of mine, who are already part of the Linkive
world?
Ans. Using the ‘Search for Friends’
option you can search through the existing users of Linkive,
using name or e-mail id. Also the search option is available in the
‘Friends’ tab of the left-panel of your ‘Home’ page.
Q) How do I
invite a contact/user to be a part of my Linkive network?
Ans. Firstly, the search option enables
you to search and invite a Linkive user to be part of your network.
Secondly, when you spot a known contact in any one of your friend’s
network and his extended network, you can view his profile and then
below his profile picture you can find an option to invite him to be
part of your Linkive network. Thirdly, the red-flag
 against contacts in your
contact list means that he/she is not yet part of your network. You
can click on the red-flag
to invite him/her to be part of your Linkive network.Q) How do I
create/edit/delete groups?
Ans. The ‘Groups’ page allows you to do
this. ‘Create new group’ link allows you to create a new group, while
clicking on an existing group name allows you to edit group details as
well as add/delete groups members. A con
Q) How do I
edit the name of a contact in my contacts list?
Ans.
 button against each contact
in your contact list allows you to edit the name of the contact.Q) How do I
find/accept invitations to be part of others networks?
Ans. The ‘invitations’ tab in the left
panel of your home-page shows all invitations received from other Linkive
users.
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Q) Where do I
find the links shared with me by my friends?
Ans. All the links shared by your
friends appear in the ‘home’ page as well as ‘Links Inbox’ page. The
‘Home’ page has all the latest links shared by your network of
friends. All the New/un-visited links are displayed on the top while
the visited/read links make way to the newer ones. Additionally the
links are displayed in different panels grouped according to labels
given by your friends. The ‘Links inbox’ shows all the links that have
ever been shared with you by your friends in a paginated format.
Clicking on the link opens up the page in the panel beside. Also, the
live comments related to the site get displayed on the right-panel.
Q) How do I
share links with my network?
Ans. Linkive toolbar, being your best buddy,
always makes your life easier. As and when you find an
interesting/important page that you want to share with your community,
you can just click the ‘Share’ or ‘Share with’ button to either share
the link with a group of friends or a single friend respectively.
Also, fromLink
ive.com one can share any URL that has
 beside it displayed. Clicking
on the button allows you to
share the links with your network. Linkive allows you to give a description and
assign a label while sharing a link with your friends. All the links
that are shared by you get added to your favorite links list in the
‘favorite links’ page.Q) Can I
change the Label of a URL that has been shared with me by my network?
Ans. In a way, ‘yes’. You can click on
existing label below any URL in the home-page and add a new label from
your available list of labels. This URL then gets added to your
favorite links list in the ‘favorite links’ page.
Q) How do I
add a new label to a URL, which my friends shared?
Ans. As of now you can only change a
label to another label name existing in your list of labels. You
cannot add or delete a label. In the home-page this can be done by
clicking on the label that you intend to edit.
Q) Can I give
multiple Labels to the URL that I am sharing?
Ans. Yes
Q) Can I share
different links with different set of friends?
Ans. Yes. One can create groups from
his friends list and share different categories of information with
different set of friends. A contact can belong to any group and there
is no limit to the number of groups he belongs to.
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All your favorite links that you have
shared with your friends get listed down in the ‘Favorite Links’ page.
You can distribute your URLs to various folders as well as various
Labels. Each folder can further be labeled, so that URLs with the same
label get listed under that folder by default. A URL can belong to
only one folder, while it can have multiple labels. Additionally,
using the Linkive toolbar one can import his
bookmarks/favorite links from the browser(Currently restricted to
Mozilla alone).
Q) How do I
import my favorite links/bookmarks from the browser?
Ans. In ‘Mozilla Firefox’ clicking on
the ‘bookmarks’ button of Linkive toolbar results in importing all you
browser bookmarks to your favorite links list in Linkive.
Q) How do I
add a URL into a certain folder?
Ans. By default a URL with a certain
label names get listed into a folder with a label matching with one of
the URL labels. You can drag and drop URLs from one folder to another.
If a URL is not listed under any folder, by default, its thumbnail can
dragged and dropped into any one of the folders.
Q) How do I
delete a certain URL from a folder?
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Q) Where can I
create a ‘label’ list of mine?
Ans. Your ‘favorite links’ page has a
‘labels’ tab in the left panel. You can add/delete/edit your labels
here.
Q) How do I
add label to a certain URL?
Ans. You can just drag and drop the
thumbnails of the URLs from the URL display panel to the ‘Labels’
tree. A URL can have any number of labels.
Q) How do I
delete a label given to a certain URL?
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Q) How do I
share my favorite links?
Ans. In the favorite links page, locate
the URL you want to share in the ‘links’ tab of the left panel. Now
you can click the share button against the URL you want to share.
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The Link ive toolbar has the following functions:
Q) Where can I
download Linkive
toolbar from?
Ans. A download link for Linkive
browser toolbar is available on every page of the site. Currently Linkive
offers toolbars for ‘IE’ and ‘Mozilla Firefox’ only.
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