Alltop is a news aggregation site that provides "all the top" stories for forty of the most popular topics on the Web. The
headlines and first paragraph of the five most recent stories from forty to
eighty sources for each topic are displayed. Alltop stories are refreshed
approximately every ten minutes.
A good metaphor is that Alltop is an "online magazine rack" that displays the
news from the top publications and blogs. Our goal is to satisfy the information
needs of the 99% of Internet users who will never use an RSS feed reader or
create a custom page. Think of it as "aggregation without the aggravation." The
easiest way to understand the value of Alltop is to try it--a day in the life of
Alltop, if you will:
You get up in the morning and need to get a quick overview of the world news. Then you want to check what the
biggest industry egos have to say as well
as the latest in social media for
your job. And yes, you can admit that you’re kind of a sports junkie—heck, even extreme sports, so you check out a
few stories there too.
It is election season, so politics
is also important, but your teenage daughter needs your help to do a report for
science class. She said it can be about
the environment or health. Stuff like music and cars aren’t appropriate for this report
though gadgets and design might be okay. Meanwhile, what she’d
really like to do is just read about celebrities, fashion, and teen news.
You’d like to find some cute pictures
to entertain your kindergartner while you read what other moms are saying. Sometimes your kids drive
you nuts, so thank God there’s always humor and odd stuff available. Not to mention lifehacks to help you get through the
day. Still, their education and religion are very important to you.
It’s a good thing that your career is
going so well because this enables you to take care of your family and pursue
your passions like food, photography, writing, gaming and religion. That sure beats constantly
worrying about what’s happening with your company’s website and its SEO issues. However, a successful career still
means that personal finance is
an important topic until that day that you can become a philanthropist to make the world a
better place by stomping out crime or
improving people’s health.
You are absolutely lusting for a new Macintosh even though your company uses Windows for desktops and Linux for servers. Working for someone else
does drive your crazy sometimes, though, so you fantasize about raising some venture capital and starting your
own small business.
At the end of the day, when everyone is asleep and all is peaceful, that’s
when you can truly waste some time. What better way than check out the often
meaningless, though entertaining, banter of the Twitterati? Truly, at the end of this day,
you’re on top of all the top
stories.