Earlier today I received an invite to Bubbletop, a new web 2.0 type site that’s still in beta. After playing with it for a couple hours this evening while winding down I have to say that it has replaced iGoogle as my browsers homepage. With a tag line of “Focus on a personalized view of the Web, and keep on top of what interests you.” I couldn’t help but be curious about it. With the information overload problems we all have, I like the idea of being able to quickly view one site an see at a glance what, if anything, deserves my attention.
In some ways, Bubbletop is just a reformatted RSS reader on steroids. And, to be honest, I think I could get my iGoogle page to function pretty much the same way. And if all it was, was a feedreader, I probably would stick with Google. But, this also has a nice social aspect to it as well. Almost a myspace meets feedreader type setup. In addition to being able to set up all my rss feeds, I can also view what my friends are reading as well. This allows me to find new sites that I haven’t seen before and lets my friends see what I’m keeping up with.
Anyway, when you get a chance check it out. It’s still in beta but should be coming out soon. I’m going to drop the developers an email and see if I can interview them a bit. If they agree I’ll follow up with another article.
