Yesterday Guy Kawasaki announced Alltop. An excellent idea! Instead of painfully building iGoogle or NetVibes pages, you have access to of-the-shelf best of breed pages making you wonder why you would use a generic news aggregator again.
Since Mr. Kawasaki was pretty proud to say that he had Alltop site designed for a mere $10K (where did I find this info? I’m sure I’ve read it somewhere …) I took the challenge of designing an entire (ahem) "blog" start-up in about half a day and at absolutely no cost .
So a start-up = problem + solution, right? Here we go:
Problem:
Tomorrow when you’ll tell your colleague that you’ve seen this fantastic news, he will ask skeptically “Really? And where did you get that from?”. So you will go to Alltop, get to your specialized page and you will search franticly among some 30 or 50 feeds (ouch) and you might just find … nothing. The news my friend, is elusive. By definition, it doesn’t last. So as a last resort you will go on Google and 3 hours later you will have the result proudly standing on the 235th result page.
Solution:
Now, you will never have to find for the source again. In addition, you will be able to focus even more on the very specific news you are interested in. Please meet TopMoRE
How do you use your aggregator?? and whats the URL?
Posted by: Carlos | March 13, 2008 at 03:52 PM
Why not just look in your browser history?
Posted by: um | March 16, 2008 at 05:12 PM
Browser history: it's going to work only if:
1- You've indeed browsed through the site displaying the news (you might have just read it on a transient feed or simply have heard of it without reading)
2- You're doing little browsing or you have a decent desktop search engine
3- Even if you have a search engine, not all the information is indexed, especially with Ajax technologies used on the web nowadays ...
It's all about trying to be as frictionless as possible ...
Posted by: jm | March 16, 2008 at 05:25 PM