Alltop
I love the design and really like the idea behind Alltop. But reality is I will never use it. NetNewsWire is simply preferable in it’s usage - I can read what I want and ignore the rest.
In an email interview with WebWorkerDaily, Alltop’s creator Guy Kawasaki said this:
We don’t compete with Google Reader, MyYahoo, Netvibes, or Pageflakes. These products are for the top .1% of Internet users who know what a feed reader and RSS feeds are. Alltop is for ‘the rest of us’.
When I read that my immediate thought was that people just need to be educated about RSS and feed readers. It’s just a more convenient way to get your news online. Aggregators are only helpful if you continually read the page.
