TodaysBigThing and Alltop: A Case of Extremes

One of the reasons I love the internet is that when you consider the fact that it is limitless (well, that is, unless you take into account the dwindling number of IPv4 addresses), there is a whole lot of room for all types of ideas - even if those ideas take completely different approaches towards the same goal.

So let’s take Today’s Big Thing and Alltop as examples. They both have a similar goal: To find the most popular, recent content. Except they take exact opposite approaches to it.

The great thing is that there is room for both. I personally visit both every day. Today’s Big Thing takes about 3 minutes (depending on the length of the video), while I can spend hours at AllTop if I’m not careful. I love Today’s Big Thing for its simplicity and the way it gets me something entertaining to watch the second I arrive. I love AllTop for the ridiculous wealth of information there, and how I usually end up with twenty Firefox tabs - and that’s only for one category.