Discovering Alltop year back or so did something amazing for me. As they say it on their about page“What’s happening?” in “all the topics” that interest me were aggregated by them for me. I use the site regularly and is very useful for me so far. Today after watching following video I realized “FlipBoard” has some similarity with “Alltop” concept. Yes it’s a cool tool for heavy twitter and Facebook users but around 9 minutes in the video Mike McCue, Cofounder and CEO of FlipBook explains how to add sections even if you don’t have twitter or Facebook account. This ability is similar to topics alltop creates on their site. To me FlipBoard sounds like an improvement over alltop in this area due to presentation of sections/topics.  As Mike explains, FlipBoard is trying to implement design principles of print media. On alltop web site once you enter a particular section/topic all feeds appears same visually while on FlipBook they are using some algorithm to highlight some feeds/photos. Yes in current version there are various limitations (biggest is it works only on iPad) but at the same time shows what new digital media aggregation could/should be. Check out Mike’s interview with Robert Scoble to know more about FlipBook.