Guy Kawasaki launches Alltop
Nononina, Inc. has launched a news aggregation service called Alltop. The site presents “all the top” stories for forty of the most popular topics on the Web. The headlines and first paragraph of the five most recent stories from forty to eighty sources for each topic are displayed. Alltop stories are refreshed approximately every ten minutes.
“Alltop is an ‘online magazine rack’ that displays the news from the top publications and blogs. Our goal is to satisfy the information needs of the 99% of Internet users who will never use an RSS feed reader or create a custom home page. Think of it as aggregation without the aggravation,” Guy Kawasaki, CEO of Nononina, said.
Alltop currently serves as a guide to the most recent news items in autos, careers, celebrities, design, fashion, food, gadgets, gaming, environment, health, Macintosh, moms, music, news, nonprofit, politics, Linux, science, social media, sports, venture capital, and Windows – in addition to egos, oddities, Twitter and more.
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I don’t get it. He should have just bought Popurls.
By MSancha on March 11, 2008 9:59 am
I had a quick look at Alltop and I just re-realized that the box-model of displaying news simply doesn’t work. Look at it, its got 3 columns of headlines in little boxes. It is not convenient to scan through the headlines from left to right. Netvibes, Pageflakes make this same mistake.
I love Guy Kawasaki and swear by his book (Art of the Start), but this doesn’t cut it. When the page loads, where is the user supposed to look ?
I’m one of the geeks behind Alertle and frankly it is the only feed reader out there with a remarkably different, fresh and simple interface (http://www.alertle.com). Apart from that the choice is between a boxes model and a email-like model. Check out its 2 mt demo on YouTube and you might agree with me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztQJ4ec1aWs
By Varun Mathur on March 11, 2008 8:22 pm