A month ago, I started observing an increase in traffic from a relatively new aggregation site called Alltop. CMS Report is now being featured in Alltop's content management page which is dedicated to "all the top content management news". Alltop recently expanded the number of topics they cover and I surmise that content management is one of those new topics. While there are already a number of news aggregation sites referring their readers back to CMSReport.com (and if you're one of them...we thank you), Alltop is special.
What makes Alltop so special? First of all, the site is a project associated with Guy Kawasaki. Guy Kawasaki has a history with Apple but he is one of those successful IT guys with so much confidence in himself that his time at Apple alone doesn't define him. If you check out his blog on a regular basis you'll come to understand what I'm trying to write here.
Secondly, Alltop is special because it was developed by a neighbor, Electric Pulp. Electric Pulp is based in my city, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I don't know what it is, but there seems to be a lot of successful tech companies with national presence to be found in Sioux Falls. Go figure that one out.
The purpose of Alltop is described best in one of Kawasaki blog posts.
A good metaphor is that Alltop is an "online magazine rack" that displays the news from the top publications and blogs. Our goal is to satisfy the information needs of the 99% of Internet users who will never use an RSS feed reader or create a custom page. Think of it as "aggregation without the aggravation.”
However, you might want to just check out the video to find out more about Alltop.