AllTop has all the Top Stories

Check out AllTop.com. Proably the niftiest feed aggregator around at the moment.

It’s somehow powered by PopUrls but I wonder whether this is simply related to the display technology or whether the choice of what to include in the different AllTop pages is based on some PopUrls stat system (does it measure traffic?). Either way, it’s definitely better than the various Google readers and the simple, information-centric presentation is excellent.

Guy Kawasaki plugged AllTop on his blog a few days ago. Clearly he’s somehow involved… but have his legendary entrepreneurial skills missed out on the monetisation aspect of the site? I can’t imagine that I would find the site half as useful if the chaps at AllTop plug in some Google AdSense module but on the other hand, there’s absolutely no ads at all! Unless premium membership is on the way… 

Taaz.com is Great Fun!

Just spent a few minutes playing at taaz.com which I found out about via a TechCrunch article.

The service is free (for now?) and basically lets you “make over” yourself or your friends. It’s extremely simple to use: you just upload a picture, point out to the software where the eyes and mouth are and then you can apply lip stick, lip gloss, mascara and a whole bunch of other things.

The website warns you to upload “good” pictures: i.e. frontal headshots, high resolution, good lighting etc., but actually it works pretty well with even crappier shots as you can see from the image below.