Hi, my name is Andre and I am a content aggregator!

There, I’ve said it! And I’m not a particularly faithful one either, although iGoogle has been my most favourite of late. As the popularity of RSS feeds have grown so have the number of sites aggregating RSS feeds. My new fave is Alltop, a self-described online magazine rack of popular topics. I found this while browsing spotcoolstuff.com, another aggregator of (cool) content.  This is what they had to say about Alltop:-

Alltop, content aggregation goes large

“What makes Alltop so useful is that the site has some editorial standards for the feeds it accepts. So instead of a million RSS feeds from everyone blogging about what they had for breakfast this morning Alltop has a few hundred feeds from blogs you may actually, you know, care about.

Alltop is also the best designed RSS aggregator. It has enough topics to be useful, not so many that you can’t find what you are looking for. The site “remembers” topics you recently visited, making it easy for you to return. Put your mouse over an article title on Alltop and you’ll see an instant preview.

The problem is that Alltop has become almost too popular. Some topics now have so many RSS feeds that the choice is overwhelming. And the best feeds are not always at the top of Alltop’s topic pages. Now there’s a solution to that problem: MyAlltop. Now you can create an account with Alltop, select whichever feeds you want from however many topics you want and the latest five headlines from all of your chosen feeds will appear on a single page. It’s a very cool way to quickly find and navigate to new content of interest to you.”

So, if like me you are a content aggregator junkie then check them out.  Until ‘they’ find a way of pumping content directly into your brain it should meet any content addict’s needs.

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