Comments on: Alltop Is One Stop Blog Shop; Curation as It Should Be

By: Alltop blog puts your blog on top | Koka Sexton

Alltop blog puts your blog on top | Koka Sexton — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:04:34 +0000

[...] Guidewire has a blog that is a about emerging technology and wrote a quick post with some backgroud of Alltop. Behind this collection is Guy Kawasaki, Apple-Evangelist-turned-entrepreneur’s-guru. He writes a popular blog himself, speaks frequently, writes best-selling books, and is generally the man about Silicon Valley. In short, he has a perspective and he’s broadcasted his point of view for much of the last 20 years. Whether you know Guy or not, you think you do. It’s that perspective that enables you to interpret the collection - the curation - at Alltop. [...]

By: Forgetting “the Point” « The Guidewire

Forgetting “the Point” « The Guidewire — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:21:13 +0000

[...] with new entrepreneurs, when I first talked with him about the site. And I failed to mention it in my initial post. Not surprisingly, the business plan is simple and common: attract a lot of users, then deliver [...]

By: chrisshipley

chrisshipley — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:36:39 +0000

I agree, Pito, that curated collections need to be transparent about the “who.” In the case of Alltop, it’s pretty clear: it’s Guy Kawasaki. And I should say that “best” is relative, and it was my word, not Guy’s. His goal, I think, is to surface interesting stuff.

Blogbridge, I think, is not only transparent, but has a clear set of filters.

Frankly, we need more of both to assess and maintain the value of all this content.

By: Pito Salas

Pito Salas — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:54:10 +0000

One problem is: All Top is the top content “according to who?” This has always been the bane of web directories of all kinds.

Take a look at http://library.blogbridge.com. It’s an analogous idea to AllTop with a big difference. It is curated by experienced experts in each field, who reveal themselves so you can assess for yourself whether their concept of the most important feeds is credible or valid.

(By the way, while part of the BlogBridge project (http://www.blogbridge.com/look) anyone can use http://library.blogbridge.com, not just BlogBridge desktop users.

By: Guy Kawasaki practices what he preaches » 16th letter » Blog Archive

Guy Kawasaki practices what he preaches » 16th letter » Blog Archive — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:39:28 +0000

[...] Guy Kawasaki just formally released his latest project. It’s called Alltop and it’s getting widely panned across the Internet. Michael Arrington doesn’t like it, and neither do these people. (Although some people like it.) [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ガイ・カワサキ「Alltop」を正式オープン。おお、これはひどい

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ガイ・カワサキ「Alltop」を正式オープン。おお、これはひどい — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:54:20 +0000

[...] これは…えーと、RSSリーダーだ。たぶん。実は1ヶ月前ここで紹介済みなのだが、今回正式に公開となった（Chris Shipleyの記事には笑った）。 [...]