Guy Kawasaki Says I Kick Ass!
June 12, 2008
There’s an interesting new site on the web. It is the creation of Guy Kawasaki, Will Mayall, and Kathryn Henkens. Its called Alltop and it is a different kind of news aggregator.
The fact that this blog was chosen to be in their blogging category with the likes of Problogger, Shoemoney, Copyblogger, and Dosh Dosh, among others, has nothing to do with my writing about them today.
The fact that I got a badge that says that I “kick ass” had little to do with my decision to write about Alltop today. I’m sure it helped. Bloggers aren’t immune to having their egos tickled.
Aside from the honor, fame, and prestige heaped upon the Traffic Report, Alltop is something to behold as a new way of thinking about information aggregation.
“You can think of an Alltop site as a “digital magazine rack” of the Internet. To be clear, Alltop sites are starting points—they are not destinations per se. The bottom line is that we are trying to enhance your online reading by both displaying stories from the sites that you’re already visiting and helping you discover sites that you didn’t know existed. In other words, our goal is the “cessation of Internet stagnation” by providing “aggregation without aggravation.”
Notice their header is right in the lower 3rd of the page when you get there. This is, as they say on their About page, to highlight the information instead of their own site.
Being part of the information their talking about highlighting, I find it hard to argue with their design choices. I just like seeing evolution in all its forms on the web.
Want to get your feed listed at Alltop? They have many categories. Check out this page to learn how you too can Kick Ass.
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Humphrey! Thanks for visiting!
Very cool Jack. I’m going to check that out right now. It looks very interesting. I’m not sure my blog will get accepted, but, I’d love to be able to “kick some ass” to.
If not now, then in the future..
Cheers
Davin
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Kudos Jack… you deserved that badge =D
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Great job! I’m a big fan of Guy Kawasaki, and getting the thumbs up is a great accomplishment. I’ve just started authority blogging, so this gives me something to aspire to.
Keep up the great work!
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Hey may register one of my cool sites on there, and see how we go. Thank you for the heads up.
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Alltop has gotten very nice publicity over the past months. If I’m not mistaken, I learned about them on one of the New York Times blogs!
Congrats on winning recognition from Alltop. I agree: You rock!
Viqk
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Congrats on getting listed!
My blog just got listed…so now I kick ass too!
Thanks so much Jack!
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Gina,
Congrats! So now maybe I can claim that readers of the FTR are more likely to Kick Ass than people who don’t!