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I heard Guy talk about the origin of alltop last week. He said that he heard about popurls, and how the guy was making money and doing nothing. He was so blow

I heard Guy talk about the origin of alltop last week. He said that he heard about popurls, and how the guy was making money and doing nothing. He was so blown away by this that he called the guy and arranged lunch. Over lunch, he said "So are you going to make popurls for hockey? And wine? And so on?" and the guy said "no." So he said, "Okay, then I'm going to."

adrianwaj 18y ago
It would't be hard to copy Alltop or Popurls. And when I say copy, I mean compete. A quality developer could do a better job, I'm sure. A bit like how http://bit.ly http://bit.ly has evolved http://tinyurl.com http://tinyurl.com. There's a lot of power in being able to choose which feeds get listed. - collect stats and create a recommendation engine. - run a click tracker and have a switch to display only popular links of day/week/month. - create a plugin or bookmarklet to quicly add a feed to any particular user-created category on the site. - also combine feeds, something not done on either of the aforementioned sites and then offer RSS. Sponsor ads could be spliced sparsely. - commenting Like DMOZ, each new category could be managed by a volunteer who'd be able to place their feed in the category as payback. Alltop and Popurls are acquisition targets: create a better site now and ride on their popularity.