Comments on: Guy Kawasaki Formally Launches Alltop. Wow, It’s Bad.

By: Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop Launches Frienderati: The Top Friends From FriendFeed

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:28:17 +0000

[...] other Alltop sites (which aggregate top feeds in other categories), this one is kind of a head-scratcher. There is no way to sort, so I guess you are expected to scroll through all 94 names to get what [...]

By: Infotron » Blog Archive » Guy Kawasaki’s Truemors Gets Acquired By NowPublic

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:28:18 +0000

[...] if Kawasaki can sell his other experimental startup, AllTop, I’ll be impressed. Its so awful its kind of [...]

By: Guy Kawasaki’s Truemors Gets Acquired By NowPublic

Guy Kawasaki’s Truemors Gets Acquired By NowPublic — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:14:40 +0000

[...] if Kawasaki can sell his other experimental startup, AllTop, I’ll be impressed. Its so awful its kind of cool. CrunchBase Information Truemors NowPublic Alltop Guy Kawasaki Information [...]

By: Independent Street : Anti-Social Aggregator? �AllTop� Lists Any Story, Not Just Popular Ones

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:26:46 +0000

[...] you don’t like. Mr. Kawasaki fielded criticism when Alltop launched in March from some in the tech community who note you can already collect feeds of content through iGoogle, Netvibes, MyYahoo, and others. [...]

By: Alltop - - LGR Webmaster Blog

Alltop - - LGR Webmaster Blog — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:58:54 +0000

[...] Most notably Darren Rowse and Jeremy Schoemaker. I first heard about Alltop back in March when TechCrunch did a story on the new site. TechCrunch was less than glowing about AllTop when it first wrote [...]

By: Guy Kawasaki launches muslim.alltop.com | Infidels Are Cool

Guy Kawasaki launches muslim.alltop.com | Infidels Are Cool — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:59:13 +0000

[...] been quite impressed with what he’s done, even though he was bashed by the tech blogs for doing what they say is “just another rss mashup site”. I disagree. Others may have [...]

By: TechParent Editorial: Alltop? Make it Stop already! : Triple Venti

TechParent Editorial: Alltop? Make it Stop already! : Triple Venti — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:17:58 +0000

[...] feel very lonely, no I am not completely alone, there are others (well at least two here and [...]

By: Will RSS Ever Go Mainstream? | Copyblogger

Will RSS Ever Go Mainstream? | Copyblogger — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:51:45 +0000

[...] Arrington slammed Alltop as nothing new, and to those of us in the blogging/technology echo chamber, that’s true. But [...]

By: Stilstudie: Alltop.com - Frisim utvecklingsblogg

Stilstudie: Alltop.com - Frisim utvecklingsblogg — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:32:55 +0000

[...] TechCrunch sågar sajten med orden Guy Kawasaki Formally Launches Alltop. Wow, It’s Bad, och även där är kommentarerna från (de ofta teknikfixerade) läsarna blandade, allt från [...]

By: Aaron Mentele, Charisma 18 » south by

Aaron Mentele, Charisma 18 » south by — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:09:46 +0000

[...] We launched Alltop. It was already live, but we switched the front page just in time to make a few more people hate it. [...]

By: Terry B

Terry B — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:02:53 +0000

Michael’s right. That’s why we need smart aggregators that don’t show everything but only what’s important. Take a look at nobosh.com for an example which covers business & technology sources. nobosh filters out the bad articles (bosh), efficiently only showing users the no non-sense (nobosh).

By: Bradjward

Bradjward — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:07:00 +0000

My visitors from Alltop (I’m in the education section, BlogHighEd) are staying on my site much longer and are viewing twice as much content as others do. They seem to be a very engaged and ready to learn audience. Like people are saying, it’s a great place to get started and perfect for those who don’t know what RSS is. Face it, we (the readers of TechCrunch, etc.) are in the minority when it comes to web knowledge. My mom can use Alltop, and she does.

By: Scabr

Scabr — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:17:29 +0000

Just found strong twitterers in http://twitter.alltop.com/.Nice.

By: Dennis Bjørn Petersen

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:40:12 +0000

Is this a “Guy Kawasaki” smear campaign or a review of a website?

I don’t see many useful comments, but I see a lot of people talking about someone they don’t personally know…

I interviewed Guy Kawasaki before he launched Alltop and got a preview of it. If you are new in the blogopshere, Alltop is a great place to find inspiration.

If you don’t know which twitterers to follow, Alltop can help you there too.

As someone mentions, Alltop is a fine service for those that doesn’t know how to use a RSS-reader or for those that are too lazy to spend a lot of time looking for topics that interest them.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:23:47 +0000

I like the site though. Simple and direct to the point.

By: jm

jm — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:18:38 +0000

Speaking of marketing search engines, here are 40 (!) specialized Google engines built on Alltop categories …

http://blog.milkingthegnu.org/topmore.html

By: KwangErn

KwangErn — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:53:42 +0000

I would have been impressed greatly if it was a better ripped of http://httpasia.com/

Still, lots of potential…

By: ed somer

ed somer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:59:25 +0000

yeah, up until now I used My Yahoo to do this. And if alltop does it for me, why shouldn’t I use it instead. The coverage is impressive. Some folks here (as others pointed out already) don’t want to believe that majority of the web surfers have no clue about RSS feeds.

By: Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:33:35 +0000

Most of you are blowhards. You should read this:

http://tinyurl.com/yqd3ft

When will we see what you mama’s boys can do per comment #94?

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:33:18 +0000

I liked the Alltop because it was clean and dirt simple and just easier to use than Google Reader and other sites. But I couldn’t figure out immediately how to customize it, which is what anyone would want.

Since when it Mahalo catering to large and sophisticated? Because they tack on a Brittany store at the top over bunches of categories about inside tekkie and Valley stuff like Lolcats and SXSW and Obama?

By: evolution

evolution — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:49:09 +0000

“It’s only getting attention because of its founder”

So what?

By: S

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:41:48 +0000

The fundamental flaw of you Silicon Valley people is that you live in your own little sphere and you forget the rest of the markets out there. This is something my mom would be interested in. Not me, not you all. That said, the site does not deserve writeups on blogs like this; it’s only getting attention because of its founder.

By: Sheryl

Sheryl — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:39:22 +0000

The site has several positive featues: 1) dense content FREE of advertising and 2) no annoying videos with commercials, and 3) speed - one of the fastest sites to deliver content via my Verizon EVDO modem, which is not a racehorse. I found some news I had missed. Guy does not have to tell everyone his revenue model, so I believe he knows something we don’t. Clever Guy. Other than the irritating red bar, I like the site and will use it. Thanks for reviewing it! Good Luck, Guy!

By: Dimitris

Dimitris — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:20:53 +0000

I see double value in this venture. First, an excellent place to show ads.

Second, assuming
the list of authoritative sites per subject are edited/updated regularly to remain authoritative, given time an excellent platform can be created for making a vertical search engine on all these subjects. Taking the concept one step further, a database/corpus of texts per subject is created that can be used to more efficiently train automated systems, eg in order to create compartmentalised semantic (sub)web(s). Does this sound feasible to you guys?

By: Richard Stevens

Richard Stevens — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:39:16 +0000

Michael full well knows that Alltop is meant for a different audience than many of the products and sites that are reviewed on TechCrunch. So knowing in his heart that the site works great for its intended audience he creates “controversy” by saying the site is awful etc.

(Controversy by picking a fight with Guy Kawasaki is becoming pretty standard in the Blogosphere lately…sure worked for Jeremiah Owyang a couple of weeks ago http://www.web-strategist.com/.....p;sbutt=Go)

Michael you are better than this man. Really many of us made TechCrunch required reading over the years due to your insight on the industry. Please get back to writing articles like you did in the old days.

Guy, don’t take Michael’s bait (and respond to his post) keep on with what you are doing as you see the big picture (which is more than about focusing on tech geeks) with the internet and I think Alltop will work well for your intended audience.

Also…Guy Kawasaki was the one invited to interview Steve Ballmer last week at Mix…Not Arrington…wonder if there is a bit of envy in Silicon Valley about who the real powerbroker is:)