Why I Love Alltop

Guy Kawasaki’s new news aggregation website Alltop is awesome.  I love it!

It’s awesome because I don’t have to configure it, mess with it, etc.  I also like that it does NOT automatically refresh.  I can pull up an Alltop screen and see all of the major headlines from dozens of the most popular sites that I frequent often.  I also don’t have to worry about leaving the room only to return to a fresh new page full of different stories.  The site does refresh every 15 minutes, but you must manually “refresh” to see the changes on their page.

They had very good taste in what websites to pick for the top of the categories.  Something about the cool transparent banner across the bottom of the browser window just turns me on to this trendy site.  I can literally keep the website open and just flip between a few categories that satisfy my interests and be done with it.  I think this site might cause me to use my RSS Reader much less.

I am in love with the Small Business and Venture Capital categories.

The only downside is that it does only aggregate a fraction of valuable websites per category, but the main news is all taken care of.  If you want opinions and niche views, then you are still going to need to use your RSS Reader and subscribe to individual blogs.  Also, because the site is really really new, there are some categories that overlap news feeds…such as Venture Capital, Startups, and Small Business.

As more topics and websites are added, I will definitely fall more in love with this service than I already am.

Check it out!!!!