Comments on: Kawasaki's Alltop Was Cheap As Hell, And It's Worth Every Penny

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:34:25 +0000

I think it’s superb, but then I would say that as Guy personally added my Sciencebase.com site to the science section

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:53:51 +0000

i just came here from this site http://www.netreputation.co.uk i have been using it for a long time as an aggregator. alltop has i have to say, nothing new

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Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:07:13 +0000

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Guy Kawasaki practices what he preaches » 16th letter » Blog Archive — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:39:14 +0000

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By: Varun Mathur

Varun Mathur — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:21:02 +0000

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: Anita Campbell

Anita Campbell — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:19:01 +0000

I think Alltop is a nice modest tool. I wrote about it because I found it useful for everyday tasks like finding new sources of information. I love the curated element of it — and the quality of the information was pretty darn good.

I use Netvibes, too, for all sorts of purposes. but Netvibes to me is just a container. I still have to find the feeds and set them up, so it doesn’t save me work hunting around like Alltop.

It all depends on what use you have for information. Popurls doesn’t cover topics I’m interested in, so I couldn’t see myself using it. Same for DailyRotation — besides which I don’t care for the interface on either of those nearly as much as I like the clean white of Alltop. Different strokes, I guess.

But I agree with you on the ability of someone else to come along and replace it. And it would be nice to have my own customizable pages tacked on, too.