Archive for August, 2008

Alltop–Top News Feeds For Your Interests

One of the items of discussion on the most recent CommandN episode was Alltop, a feedreader that keeps track of all the latest posts in subject areas you might be interested. For instance, here’s the L subject categories:

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When you mouse over a subject heading, it gives you a popup window describing what you might expect to find there. Here’s the mouseover view for Lifehacks:

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Clicking on a subject category will take you to a page of prominent sites in that subject area, with their most recent posts:

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Mousing over a headline will give you the opening paragraph of that post:

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I really like how this displays information. The only thing that would make it better is if you could add feeds to the display. (It will let you hide displays you’re not interested.)