The Alltop press release went out yesterday and was met with an extremely active response. Michael Arrington even took the time to cover it on TechCrunch, again.
Not surprisingly, Arrington didn’t like it. (Millionaire tech bloggers aren’t really the target use group.)
A few things do surprise me, though.
First, Arrington pulled the post. Then he put it back up. He twittered about it eight or so times.
The post has also generated all kinds of audience discussion, both on the site (105 comments at last count) and on twitter. Much of this coming from busy people well outside the target market.
I’m writing about it for two reasons. One, we built it. Two, I’m again amazed at Guy K’s ability to generate attention.
This is a very light RSS play, and some of the sharpest tech bloggers are covering it. Some are in such a rush to weigh in that their posts are coming out as jibberish. Jeremiah’s analysis stated it was built using Thomas Marban’s existing code and that Guy was an investor in popurls. (He has since revised the post.) News to Thomas. And at least one small mind has commented that the developers over-charged for the build (some even blog it that way). News to me. Electric Pulp didn’t charge to build Alltop.
Anyway, there’s a story in all this. But I don’t think anyone has picked up on it yet.
And, for what it’s worth, the unadulterated love being thrown at Alltop from outside the inner circle of geeks is wild. (Still not the story.)
March 12th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Another sweet 2.0 product launch that is going to keep the new business rolling in. Nice work.
March 12th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Maybe Arrington was having a bad day. The comments look to be against him more often than not.
March 13th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Aaron - enjoyed your panel at SXSW and am loving the execution of AllTop.
How can we work with Electric Pulp?
March 14th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Hey Mike. Thanks and thanks. (And the earlier note should get things rolling. So, thanks a third time.)