Has anyone else started to really warm to Alltop? It’s a ‘digital magazine rack’ that allows users to explore all the top stories on the web. I’ve been following Guy Kawasaki on Twitter for a while now and his firm Nononina is behind Alltop’s delightfully different architecture and design. What’s new? Well, the site just looks so unique. It’s clean and modern. The rollovers give you bite sized summaries of content. Even the simple reversal of banner to footer offers centre stage to content. The navigation is intuitive and the feeds are updated every ten minutes. Try it and I promise you’ll be instantly hooked. What’s more, there’s a brilliant new HR section. Admittedly it’s very US-centric in terms of content but it does shed some light on some universal issues. Chiefly, it’s a really useful tool for following issues of HR technology which has always been led by our friends across the pond.

There are quite a few fantastic advances in technology in the film Minority Report that would provide hours of mirth and fun, not to mention some genuine value. The sick-stick, the jetpack and those brilliant hover-ships that would doubtless be liable for extra c-charge costs but are mercifully easy to park. However, the one resounding image most of us took away from that movie was the highly evolved computer interface that Mr Cruise tames in order to manage information visually.

So far, a number of developers have tried to lay the foundations of visual search. But the latest one to catch my eye is Viewzi, which heralds itself as “a whole new way to experience search”. Yes, it’s prettier. And, yes, it’s more geared to those with more tread on the tyres of their right brain. But what’s really interesting about it is how it allows us get a little glimpse of something that could fundamentally up-end the way we navigate the digital landscape.

Recruiters take notice. This technology would allow a resourcer to shuffle, assess and recall candidate video like a deck of cards. It could be used to negotiate your way through a truly interactive CV, packed with narrative clips supporting an application. It would absolutely revolutionise training programmes. And that’s just the start. The only thing that’s holding it back, other than the costs of producing compelling digital video, is the colossal download rates you need to make it seamless. But one’s things for sure. It’s only a matter of time before these kinds of interfaces make it out of the minority and into the mainstream.

I’m a bit late on this, but Firefox are going for a new world record for their downloads of the new version 3. I recommend you give it a try!

Hello, hello. Well, a bit of a nerd post sorry about that. But I thought I must inform you of something special. Suppose you go to a lot of websites which feature RSS. And you think well I could do with a better system to organise and receive the articles I’m interested in from all the wonderful weblogs all over the interweb.

Well I have already done some homework for you. If you can’t stand using Safari or Firefox as your default RSS reader I insist that you give Vienna a go. It’s easy to use, free (open source) and best of all automatically checks for recent articles. It also syncs with Growl which displays onscreen notifications for various OS X applications.

There you have it, the really, really simple (RRS) way to read really simple syndication (RSS)…