Alltop.com has been a subject of controversy since it first appeared. Alltop.com founder Guy Kawasaki calls it an “online magazine rack of popular topics”. Some people think of Alltop as the dummy’s, or lazy person’s, version of an RSS feed aggregator . Can’t figure out how to set up Google Reader , Bloglines , or Netvibes ? Hey, anyone can figure out Alltop!
Some people think it’s oversimplified, overblown, poorly designed, and a waste of $10,000 (the supposed cost of creating Alltop.com.) What was Guy thinking when he built this? What’s the point?
I think there are a number of important points here. I think Alltop, although rather simple, is cool. I think it’s better than some people give it credit for. And, furthermore, I think it’s got some great advantages.
Alltop is… Alltop… which is…
But let’s start things off properly and define this thing. Taking my cue from the “online magazine rack” comment from Alltop’...
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Last week Google announced the roll out of their latest search feature for Google account holders - SearchWiki - with the tag-line “Make Search your Own.”
According to Google, SearchWiki is a way for signed in Google users (meaning you must have a Google account) to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Through SearchWiki, users can:
Move results to the top
Add a new site
Write notes attached to a particular site
Remove results ... more
Have you noticed that when you conduct a search on the Big 3, Google, Yahoo and MSN, that all three report new results that you may not understand?
Today, we’ll take a look at Google’s search results and explore what Google, Yahoo and MSN now have in common tomorrow.
Interactive Features Introduced by Google in its “Search Wiki”.
Here’s a snapshot of the top search results on November 30, 2008, for the search term, Christmas specials . The new features a... more
Google has launched a site dedicated to offering holiday gift ideas for shoppers along with ways to save on purchases using Google Product Search and Google Checkout. From the Official Google Blog . "Our Product Search team recently pored over millions of aggregated (and anonymous) search queries to put together some of the most popular products people are searching for." read more
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hello compadres, when you for example search for yahoo.com in google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yahoo.com&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq= the first result shows the headline and some text and then a list of directories of the site or something. i was wondering if there is any way to tell google to do this with your site. to display this sort of list of options or directories or links or whatever. any help is much appreciated, dan Topic Replies: 3... more
A recent cnet article suggests that Ubuntu is eating other distribution’s lunch . In particular, one distribution is reported to be falling apart: Gentoo . Gentoo was very popular among my friends at the time I adopted Linux, but from what I’ve seen, the project fell apart as developers were unable to come to consensus or resolve conflicts.
From what little I know of Gentoo users and the project, it’s closer to say that Gentoo is becoming an unofficial set of distributed o... more
Background: during this week’s Twitter experimentation I linked to a lot of people, including Robert Scoble , who’s… well, I’ll feel silly if I explain this because 99% of you probably know who he is. Check Wikipedia if you don’t… please. Suffice it to say he’s a famous blogger and tech enthusiast who’s now doing some interesting stuff for Fast Company and who has gotten a fair bit of coverage in traditional media.
Anyway, I made a comm... more
I’ve been using the Twitter microblogging platform for several months now. It’s a cool quick way to send mini-blog posts into a public timeline of posts while allowing communication with other users.
By chance I happened upon this post about Twitter yesterday, which talked about one blogger’s experiment with following a whole lot of Twitter users: about 1000 of them !
So, yesterday I started to follow about 380 Twitter users (I was already following close... more
Read broadly , even if the experts say you shouldn’t. You learn as much from reading outside of your chosen niche as you do reading inside that niche. But don’t just take my word for it – I’ve got an expert backstage, waiting for the right moment to make his dramatic entrance.
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Nina Munteanu sent me this book meme . I haven’t been responding to memes for awhile (shame, shame) but I thought this one might be interesting.
Here’s how it goes:
1. look up page 123 in the nearest book to you at the time;
2. find the fifth sentence and write it down. Then write down the three sentences that follow.
3. once you’ve done this find three other suck–er…. em… people you’d like to tag and send along. (Sorry, not goi... more
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