Comments on: Alltop Launches Redesign To Cover More Topics With Less Clutter

By: http://www.digiwu.com » Blog Archive » BizShark Takes A Crack At Creating An Automated CrunchBase

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By: BizShark Takes A Crack At Creating An Automated CrunchBase

BizShark Takes A Crack At Creating An Automated CrunchBase — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:33:09 +0000

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By: The Cranky Product Manager

The Cranky Product Manager — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:46:43 +0000

The Cranky Product Manager blog was listed briefly on Alltop’s new “product management” page, with pole position in the top right corner (above the fold). Anyway, after the Cranky Product Manager posted a “thankyou, but what’s the big deal about Alltop anyway” (as is required by her cranky online persona), she was demoted to the very bottom of the Alltop page. Keep in mind that the Cranky PM blog probably has a bigger and more loyal readership than 25 of the 28 product management blogs listed. Product Beautiful, another blog that also publicly questioned what was so great about Alltop was similarly demoted.

Granted, Alltop’s FAQ says they give better page position to “their friends”, and it’s Alltop’s site so they can do what they want. But their actions do seem to undermine their claim to be an “online magazine rack” that aggregates only the “best of the best”. Perhaps they should tag it “the best of the blogs that publicly fawn over Alltop” instead.

By: WTF Arrington

WTF Arrington — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:10:10 +0000

Why don’t you have one of your kids google “popurls clone script”, give them a weekend and see what they come up with?

Clever wording aside Guy, was anything of what I said untrue?

Try looking at the sites you stole the idea from for your feeds. Seriously, how can someone like you be so pathetic?! I even liked Art of the start. Shame on me.

By: Alltop, Still Useless After A Redesign

Alltop, Still Useless After A Redesign — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:43:38 +0000

[...] linked to, but who cares? TechCrunch writer, Don Reisinger drank the Kool-Aid and stated that Alltop’s redesign makes the site a lot better. Maybe Don didn’t get the memo from Arrington that Alltop [...]

By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:38:16 +0000

Despite never asking to be added, many of my sites were added without permission to AllSpam and Kawasaki went all drama queen-like when I asked to be removed. He then used my email address without permission to spam me about this upgrade.

Alltop itself is nothing more than a splog. People adding themselves for pure vanity desperate for more traffic and linking back not realising that their own content on Alltop shows up before their original stuff on their blogs. The usual dodgy techniques from the guy still holding on to his one hit wonder in the business world 20 years ago.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:36:21 +0000

Check this out .. Explains the new face lift and why they might have done it … http://www.jtde...om/jtblog/?p=84

By: Tony Mars

Tony Mars — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:50:17 +0000

I have been aware of Alltop since their first release and wasn’t that impressed but I really like Alltop v2. At auditoriumA.com we carefully pick and choose select content to highlight to our visitors from around the web and Alltop is an excellent primary source.

Good work!

http://www.auditoriumA.com

By: Lev

Lev — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:13:58 +0000

Don-g your wrong!

Alltop brings 000 added value to all those feeds, yes its cute to look at but what does that help me? Big time waster with NO filters.

By comparison, the other site you mention (Newsflashr.com) brings lots of added value: useful filters by “topics” and “time” and a real “news search” (that includes Google News)

And I have no problem with its simple, very functional design – take some time to poke around it and you’ll start to appreciate it much more, the “topics view” is really ground breaking

By: Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:18:23 +0000

Please show me the sites that your peers (12 year olds) have created with aggregations. We’re always looking for good feeds.

Thanks,

Guy

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:19:39 +0000

Quite surprise this horrible startup has been mentioned a couple times on TC.

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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:07:29 +0000

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By: ArabCrunch

ArabCrunch — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:20:11 +0000

sorry it is Muslim.alltop.com not Islam.all.top.com

By: ArabCrunch

ArabCrunch — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:15:42 +0000

My blog ArabCrunch is featured in to Alltop channels, startup.alltop.com and islam.alltop.com Thanks to Guy
Guy is a nice guy but when i invited him to visit Jordan he said he is afraid to come to Jordan. and he asked whether Is it safe for Americans. that fact is that it is 100% safe.

Anyone can convince Guy to change his mined?

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By: Webomatica

Webomatica — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:15:59 +0000

I wish I could have an AllTop page where I could put my own RSS feeds in. I’m not terribly interested in reading what they deem important. But I guess the feed reader business isn’t what AllTop is going for.

By: CG

CG — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:59:41 +0000

TechCrunch, please consider never covering a site redesign again. This is useless fluff. The lipstick applied to this particular pig will change nobody’s life. I don’t care what big names are involved.

By: Steven Livingstone

Steven Livingstone — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:27:35 +0000

These kinds of sites will grow – there is too much crap around and most people need help.

By: Tiler

Tiler — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:14:24 +0000

popurls.com was and is the only site where single page aggregation really works. alltop and all other copycats just don’t get it.

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SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 22, 2008 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:05:45 +0000

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By: WTF Arrington

WTF Arrington — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:59:30 +0000

A twelve year old could make this site and loads of people have. So his name is Guy Kawasaki, is that really enough to get so much attention for mediocre crap!?

Take a done existing idea – go to electricpulp.com and have them build it – DO NOT innovate – Say, slowly; “Hi! My name is GUY KAWASAKI!!!!!!!!!!!! This is Alltop”

By: Taylor

Taylor — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:48:58 +0000

I’ve been using it for politics but have not explored other topics. The new design is inviting, and the metaphor, “online magazine rack” might inspire me to explore… we’ll see!

By: Raul

Raul — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:34:02 +0000

I was very sceptical of alltop, after all I have my netvibes setup with my carefully selected feeds accumalated over years of research for credibility, why would I need alltop?

It so happens that services like alltop become useful when you want to start tracking or temporarily get info on a new area of interest, for instance suppose you are not clued into the startup/venture capital beat, you can spend a lot of time finding credible sources in google and setting up the feeds in igoogle/netvibes or use something like alltop to zero on a preselected and often credible sources, saving you some time in the process.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:20:08 +0000

P.S., Compete analytics = flawed. I would never count on it as a source, as well as Alexa….

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:15:29 +0000

Sigh. The web needs to be easier to find and so early stage aggregation tools, like this, will open up that for the masses providing that they’re marketed well. I think Alltop has done a decent job at this. Citing that you prefer Google Reader is like saying you’d prefer to drive a car than ride in it – few mass consumers, who are what really matters in all of this, are at a stage where they’re adopting feeds. Aggregators and crawlers like this, therefore, are a good natural next step. The web experience needs to get smaller. By having these categories, now marketers and advertisers can see a snap shot of a category, and potentially chart and research analytics by category to get accurate benchmarks. As a small media publisher in the past and somebody who does a ton of top level business now, trust me when i say these things help. Alltop is like Bacons or Media Map in a sense.

Consumers can find, in a single source, all these properties online. Y’all should want this