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.

Depending on who you talk to, Twitter is big on zeitgeist or big on time-waste. But when you consider just how important mobile communications is as a growing channel, any tool that relies heavily on SMS should have it’s fifteen minutes of fame. The concept is simple - take the status updates from Facebook and transfer them to a mobile platform that allows people to communicate in bite-sized nuggets of information. Aside from the immediacy of the medium (walking down the road, bump into Winehouse, try to take picture, get punched, tell your mates, all in an instant) there are some really interesting engagement angles for employers or corporates on the horizon. If you want to take the plunge, twit-yourself-silly and find me here.