this guy is a good motivation speaker but full of bs. I reminds me of my old boss.
1EightT
· 1 year ago
10K for that site? We could have put that together for free in a weekend ;)
Jack
· 1 year ago
Alltop.com is about the silliest site I have ever seen. They do not cluster stories...what is the point of this site, my sister could have made this? Its an agreegator with no value added technology. Only kawasaki could get this exposure for such a shitty site and only cashmore would give it.
D
· 1 year ago
Amazing how cheap you can get somehthing launched so cheap these days :) Do more interviews. You have a calming voice!
batman22
· 1 year ago
Now batting in the bottom half of the 7th inning of this slugfest, with 2 strikeouts, a pop out and a ground out, Guy Kawasaki! On deck is the pitcher...
Chris
· 1 year ago
Great Job, you can take over Lacie now. Guy's site looks more like OriginalSignal.com. TechCrunch and other sites didn't cover it as good as this interview, maybe after watching this, they will change their minds about alltop.com. Great Job Kristen and Mashable.
Not sure if that means the sites actually appealing to a certain niche of web goers who aren't bothered to setup their own start page or rss feed reader, or if it's just due to the publicity that Guy is able to drum up.
webpodge
· 1 year ago
Um....seriously, any website designer could've put this together in a few hours. RSS feeds, oh how innovative. Using an Aggregator module you could do this in about 2 minutes with Drupal. That this site is getting pub from TC, Mashable, etc is astonishing. Its good to be Guy I guess.
Drue Kataoka
· 1 year ago
ValleyZen.com's coverage of the Alltop conversation is here:
perhaps they could make it more lively, at the moment its just a lists, they could display some headlines.
Accuwiz Technologies
· 1 year ago
Overpricing a web project, electric pulp did it again. We are building a similar site for a client for a fraction of that amount. Oh well...
Someone.
· 1 year ago
alltop.com is a complete and total ripoff of originalsignal. They're just offering more blogs than originalsignal.
Varun Mathur
· 1 year ago
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
@ Varun Mathur : Why do u copy comment from Techcrunch.. you comment is already written by someone else... u look like a software engineer... driven by CTRL+C and CTRL+V...!!
Tony T
· 1 year ago
this would be better if it wasn't a "venture" but personal web project instead. Its kind of like looking at his top bookmarks or something
Varun Mathur
· 1 year ago
@Amar: That was written by me under my name :) I'm just enjoying having the conversation on RSS in quite a few places.
FGK
· 1 year ago
Why don't we show Guy how stupid this idea is and how he overpaid? Let's do travel.alltop.com. We just need 30 minutes of someone's time to get the technology ready. Someone else can find the travel news feeds--ie, type "travel news" into Google.
From what I can tell, the technology is trivial: suck in 75 feeds, include each feed's favicon, refresh every ten minutes, cache the results so that it can be delivered in under five seconds, preview the first paragraph of each story in a bubble, and some kind of admin program to add feeds, reorder them, and remove them. Would this even take 30 minutes?
We need to send Guy back to Cupertino in an old iMac box for recycling.
UR A Bozo
· 1 year ago
What you're doing is looking for all the posts about Alltop and posting the same comment in order to get people to click on your piece of crap. Do you really think you're fooling anyone?
Some of you are missing the point. Alltop is for people who don't use any form of feed reader. Besides, I was glad to discover plenty of new sources for my own feeds. As to the technology it's not an end as such, just a means...
Did you have the chance to find out which Hosting company that Guy uses for Alltop?? Is it MediaTemple?? Thanks :)
Tubbydev
· 1 year ago
Idea to propose a selection is interesting because some people are tired of customed systems (to much work ;-)) We tried to do the same with www.blogpresso.com We propose selection of posts, automatically updated from blogs that we selected too... But we needed only some hours to do it.; Why 10000 USD ???
Slovniky
· 1 year ago
Sooo much money only for this easy site?
Busby
· 1 year ago
too much to invest for this type of site
ethee
· 1 year ago
he's no innovator, just a pos copycat
sharonfranz
· 1 year ago
Here's a similiar site, created in a week using Drupal and $10 dollars for hosting: Wopular.com
Mine has two columns of featured news and a third column for feeds (and another page with 3 columns of feeds). Yeah, it's not too difficult to create, but it does take a little bit of time to fine tune.
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Do more interviews. You have a calming voice!
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/alltop.com/?me...
Not sure if that means the sites actually appealing to a certain niche of web goers who aren't bothered to setup their own start page or rss feed reader, or if it's just due to the publicity that Guy is able to drum up.
http://www.valleyzen.com/2008/03/11/techcrunch-...
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
From what I can tell, the technology is trivial: suck in 75 feeds, include each feed's favicon, refresh every ten minutes, cache the results so that it can be delivered in under five seconds, preview the first paragraph of each story in a bubble, and some kind of admin program to add feeds, reorder them, and remove them. Would this even take 30 minutes?
We need to send Guy back to Cupertino in an old iMac box for recycling.
http://tinyurl.com/yqd3ft
BTW, Alltop already has a sister site:
http://blog.milkingthegnu.org/topmore.html
Did you have the chance to find out which Hosting company that Guy uses for Alltop?? Is it MediaTemple?? Thanks :)
We tried to do the same with www.blogpresso.com
We propose selection of posts, automatically updated from blogs that we selected too... But we needed only some hours to do it.; Why 10000 USD ???
Wopular.com
Mine has two columns of featured news and a third column for feeds (and another page with 3 columns of feeds). Yeah, it's not too difficult to create, but it does take a little bit of time to fine tune.