Friday, January 16, 2009

Aggregation Without Aggravation


Alltop.com is a new information and news aggregation site ("a magazine rack of popular topics") from the fertile brain of Guy Kawasaki and friends, formerly the chief Apple evangelist and now a venture capitalist. Look at the the clean homepage for an overview, but here is the page that aggregates news for "vegan" just as an example of what it does -- and the topics are almost limitless. (I couldn't believe how many "vegan" web sites Alltop aggregates -- sites I've never seen or heard of. I can only assume that depth and breadth of aggregation exists in all the topics it covers.) The news feeds are updated automatically. Roll your cursor over the headlines to get a pop-up summary of the article, etc. You can also create your own RSS feeds from most of the sites listed. Play around with it and you'll get the idea. (This page explains more about the concept.) Worth bookmarking along with other favorite news/search sites.
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