DISQUS

Michael Koby: Digg Loses the News, AllTop Takes Over

  • TimTheFoolMan · 1 year ago
    Am I the only one who finds it ironic that an article about AllTop being superior to Digg already has two diggs?
  • Michael Koby · 1 year ago
    Nope, I find it a little ironic too. It'll be doubly ironic if it makes it to the Digg front page (not holding my breath though)
  • john · 1 year ago
    If you like alltop try popurls.com
  • Michael Koby · 1 year ago
    I've been to popurls.com. That site is just as cool, but it's slightly different in target audience. Still a cool website none-the-less and AllTop owes a lot to them as far as general design and layout goes.
  • Marco · 1 year ago
    I love Alltop.com as well for precisely the reasons you mention.

    I am a big believer that a weakness is little more than a strength carried too far. Through this filter I find Alltop's appeal and growing popularity an interesting response to what, imho, has become the web's weakness: the loss of the ability of tools like Digg to display the "best of" now that its adoption rate has gotten so high.

    It is a trend that I see occurring elsewhere on the web as well where the popularity of widespread, completely democratic applications are losing their appeal in favor of content selected by individuals who have a proven track record of identifying and diffusing things that the general population (or even topic-specific subsets) will also find interesting and beneficial.