Michael Koby - Latest Comments in Digg Loses the News, AllTop Takes Over

Re: Digg Loses the News, AllTop Takes Over

mkoby — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:11:12 -0000

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.

Re: Digg Loses the News, AllTop Takes Over

Marco — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:18:48 -0000

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.

Re: Digg Loses the News, AllTop Takes Over

john — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:11:09 -0000

If you like alltop try popurls.com

Re: Digg Loses the News, AllTop Takes Over

mkoby — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:05:24 -0000

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)

Re: Digg Loses the News, AllTop Takes Over

TimTheFoolMan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:33:33 -0000

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that an article about AllTop being superior to Digg already has two diggs?