Alltop, top news websites – but where’s the feed?
Alltop is Nononina’s, and of Guy Kawasaki’s, central console of top news websites, as chosen by someone at Nononina:
We import the stories of the top news websites and blogs for any given topic and display the headlines of the five most recent stories. When you place the cursor over a headline, we display part of the story so that you can decide if you’d like to read it. To read the story, click on its title. To go to the home page of the site, click on its domain name.
But where are the RSS feeds? I want information coming to me! There is a reason I use Google Reader; I don’t want to fetch around, I want the feeds that I care about, in one place.
So people will go to Alltop, learn about the cools websites there, then subscribe directly to those, skipping Alltop all together?
ceo
Honestly, it’s okay if people come to Alltop, find some new sites, drag-and-drop the names into a feed reader and never come back. Because they will come back. And they will tell people who don’t what RSS/XML is about it.
We don’t provide a feed because most topics have 100 feeds x 5 stories updated every 10 minutes. I maintain the database of all Alltop feeds. There are 40,000 new stories every day. You want a feed for this?
Guy
Hey Guy.
One of the great values of Alltop, is that the content it provides have been selected by a knowledgeable person(s) who decided what good websites to include.
I used Alltop, a couple of times, and it’s great, but after the 2nd or 3rd time, it’s too much hassle to go visit yet another website; it is time consuming enough to keep up with my current feeds! I’m sure I’m not the only one with time constrains issues.
If Alltop had an RSS feed, that would be very useful. I want all of my info coming to me. Each category has its own feed? Dunno, would have to give it more thought. Maybe I’m not Alltop’s demographic type. Sure, that might put you in an undesirable position of being tagged as a “feed aggregator”, but Alltop already is an RSS feed aggregator. Cheers.
ceo
Alltop has added RSS feeds; good!
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2009/06/how-to-use-alltop-to-add-content-to-your-website-blog-and-feed-reader.html
ceo