Collation viewers and aggregators are two-a-penny and I have already reviewed many. I wanted to draw your attention to Alltop.com as an excellent alternative to iGoogle, Pageflakes, Simply Headlines and the like.
Alltop.com have taken and fresh and innovative approach to providing the best information on the web and aggregated the results into individual Alltop sites. Rather than stumbling across sites and collecting RSS feeds from the pixel forrest to place on the Google fire – Alltop does the foraging for you…enhancing your online reading by both displaying stories from the sites that you’re already visiting and helping you discover sites that you didn’t know existed. Great drawing from Dan Roam further explains the Alltop approach.
Alltop.com is an “online magazine rack” of popular topics. Tell us what you’re interested in, and we’ll bring you stories from the best websites and blogs on the topic. All the topics, all the time.
Alltop.com is a creation of the Nononina team (creators of the Truemors project) and is loosely based on Popurls.com. I am a fan and have already been led to a varied number of sites through searches – much more fun than browser searching and even feels slightly peer-reviewed!
If you’ve gotten the impression that Alltop is not based on computer algorithms or popular voting, you’d be right. We are highly subjective and judgmental.
Favorite sites within the site are health, australia, humor and rugby…just waiting for the ”obtusely eclectic‘ section to be built then I will be all over it like some kind of rash. The guys are certainly managing to attain apposite aggregation without aggravation and every visit I manage to find more than I was looking for.
As the Alltop team say:
Q. Couldn’t I build my own custom aggregation using a feed reader, customizable home pages, Netvibes, etc?
A. Yes, you could—knock yourself out. While you’re at it, you could backup your hard disk, bake your own bread, iron your own shirts, floss daily, tune your own car, and bike to work.
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