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Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

sharonfranz — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:29:36 -0000

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.

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

ethee — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:29:05 -0000

he's no innovator, just a pos copycat

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Busby — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:28:05 -0000

too much to invest for this type of site

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Slovniky — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:17:36 -0000

Sooo much money only for this easy site?

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Tubbydev — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:33:08 -0000

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 ???

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Jason H. — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:20:05 -0000

Great Interview, Kristen :)

Did you have the chance to find out which Hosting company that Guy uses for Alltop?? Is it MediaTemple?? Thanks :)

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

jm — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:56:09 -0000

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...

BTW, Alltop already has a sister site:
http://blog.milkingthegnu.o...

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

AR — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:49:43 -0000

Most of you should read this:

http://tinyurl.com/yqd3ft

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

UR A Bozo — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:04:48 -0000

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?

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

FGK — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:01:36 -0000

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.

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Varun Mathur — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:20:56 -0000

@Amar: That was written by me under my name :) I'm just enjoying having the conversation on RSS in quite a few places.

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Tony T — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:45:00 -0000

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

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Amar — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:40:42 -0000

@ 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...!!

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Vijay — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:37:08 -0000

Copy of http://smashingfeeds.com ???

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Varun Mathur — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:04:14 -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/watc...

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Someone. — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:48:15 -0000

alltop.com is a complete and total ripoff of originalsignal. They're just offering more blogs than originalsignal.

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Accuwiz Technologies — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:29:50 -0000

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...

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

harpless — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:17:16 -0000

perhaps they could make it more lively, at the moment its just a lists, they could display some headlines.

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Drue Kataoka — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:12:13 -0000

ValleyZen.com's coverage of the Alltop conversation is here:

http://www.valleyzen.com/20...

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

webpodge — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:48:34 -0000

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.

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Gabe — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:33:04 -0000

Traffic to alltop.com seems to be decent:
http://siteanalytics.compet...

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.

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Rami — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:23:39 -0000

This is a similar idea: http://workhack.com/news

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Chris — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:05:09 -0000

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.

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

batman22 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:57:53 -0000

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...

Re: Interview: Guy Kawasaki Launches Alltop with $10,000

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:52:39 -0000

Amazing how cheap you can get somehthing launched so cheap these days :)
Do more interviews. You have a calming voice!