Comments on: Alltop – Your Online Magazine Rack

By: karooch

karooch — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:23:38 +0000

I was sure there was a link there when I wrote the article DreamScrapper, but it seems not. Here is an excerpt from their About Page.

Q. How do you decide which sites and blogs are in a topic?

A. We use a patent-pending, semantic computational algorithm derived from the post-doctoral work of Guy at Stanford. Just kidding. We rely on several sources: results of Google searches, review of the sites’ and blogs’ content, researchers, and our “gut” plus the recommendations of the Twitter community, owners of the sites and blogs, and people who care enough to write to us. Let us declare something: The Twitter community has been the single biggest factor in the quality of Alltop. Without this group of mavens and connectors, Alltop would not be what it is today.

Apparently if you want to suggest other links you just need to email them.

By: DreamScrapper

DreamScrapper — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:10:21 +0000

What an excellent tool! I wish I could customize it myself, though, to show the sites/blogs I want to follow. I also couldn’t find the link that you mention for suggesting sites or blogs.

By: karooch

karooch — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:21:53 +0000

I’m not sure how they’ve gathered their info Hummie, but there’s an invitation at the top of the page for you to submit details of your favorite sites if they’re not on the list.

I didn’t submit Scraps of Mind to them so it’s not a simple advertising thing. I think they’re still building up their catalog of sites in each topic. Jump in and get yours listed.

By: Hummie

Hummie — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:51:01 +0000

I don’t get it though. I’m not listed and a lot of my favorite sites are not listed, so it seems more of someone advertising to me at first glance.

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