We were pleased to note that InnoBlog is included in the new Innovation site of the new news-aggregator Alltop, and even more pleased when we learned that getting listed there is often the result of reader requests. Thank you to the people (or person!) who suggested us.
Alltop launched in January, with the stated goal is to "collect stories from 'all the top' sites on the web....At each Alltop site, we display the headlines of the latest stories from dozens of sites and blogs. You can think of an Alltop site as a 'digital magazine rack' of the Internet." In Innosight terms, AllTop is trying to satisfy the customer job "help me find relevant information on the Internet," a job that many sites are trying to satisfy in a variety of ways. It's too early to tell how well Alltop will do, but it's a good sign that the site was launched by Nononina, the company owned by uber-enterpreneur Guy Kawasaki. Nononia's last start-up, Truemors, was just sold a few weeks ago to Vancouver-based "crowd-powered media" platform NowPublic.
Wall Street Journal reporter Wendy Bounds wrote about Alltop here. And just for fun, this link goes to a drawing of how Alltop works compared to how Google works, by Dan Roam, author of Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems with Pictures.