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thanks to the patent ass clowns facebook will soon have ...

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:06:54 GMT

thanks to the patent ass clowns facebook will soon have the exclusive right to brief your friends when you shit a brick.

popurls on google buzz

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:44:30 GMT

[experimental] you can now follow popurls on google buzz – the posted stories are equivalent to the ones on twitter.

hulu now full-featured

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:02:54 GMT

quick one: hulu is now a full-featured video block and has replaced msn-video which was discontinued after moving to bing.com.

digg vs. reddit war

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:37:55 GMT

popurls makes a guest appearance in the epic digg vs. reddit war comic.
read the recent episode in full-size glory »

guardians top 100 sites of 09

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:38:19 GMT

among several other classics, popurls made it into the guardian’s top sites of ‘09 roundup.

popurls webOS edition

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:09:21 GMT

webOS users on devices such as the palm pre can now use a mobile version that’s optimized for speed and readability.by opening popurls.mobi in your palm’s browser you will automatically be redirected to the appropriate version. as always, popurls.net has the overview of all other editions of popurls for your device & service.

contents updates 09/11

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:24:12 GMT

i’ve just rolled the new content update for november. by popular demand there’s now a dedicated green as well as a women + men section. among many others, here are a couple of new sites now featured on popurls:

re: professional apple rumorist john grubers rantnote to ...

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:45:13 GMT

re: professional apple rumorist john gruber’s rant

note to bloggers and self-proclaimed analysts: unless proven otherwise by virtue of first-hand experience it is advisable to shut the fuck up.

popurls now delivered by UPS

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:18:40 GMT

i’m happy to announce the launch of the popurls | brown edition, a business news version sponsored by UPS. thanks for curating this site.

introducing popurls widgets

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:36:57 GMT

you can now bring popular content fragments from popurls straight to your website with the simple two-step widget builder at widgets.popurls.net. further content options will be added over time.

popurls archive facelift

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:44:17 GMT

after launching the popurls archive one year ago it was about time to revamp the overview page for the individual issues so whenever you want to catch up on the buzz, give archive.popurls.com a spin.

popurls, now with more real-time

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:34:43 GMT

although i would argue that real-time systems apply to brilliant things like the anti-lock brakes of your car, the term has been all the rage for a while now in the webosphere and that’s why, as of today, new stories will be published instantly on popurls after being made available on the source site (compared to the five-minute lag and if this site meets the requirements). in addition, you’ll immediately find those stories when searching on popurls search.

ps: check twittersphere.com if you just want to filter for pulsating stories on twitter.

popurls.tv relaunched

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:09:12 GMT

i’ve revamped the interface of two-year-old popurls.tv, an experimental sub-site that displays the traffic on the popurls network in real-time and lists the most read stories of the hour.

new: seamless posterous sharing / twitter

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:59:08 GMT

in addition to facebook, twitter, et al. you can now seamlessly share to your posterous account via popurls. if you’re logged in, click user > sharing profile and enter your credentials. as soon as you hover over a story and click »share« you’ll instantly find the link on your posterous site. in addtion, you can now use a more secure way to share on twitter without having to enter your username or password.

MINI: a new popurls sponsor

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:37:00 GMT

if you follow the popurls twitter bot you’ll find some occasional stories marked with #positweets – a selection of handpicked links with enjoyable content, which in turn gets aggregated on positweets.com together with tweets from other renowned blogs such as boingboing or trendhunter. special thanks to MINI for supporting popurls and curating this site.

TIME: popurls top 50 website 2009

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:49:23 GMT

"…it’s the perfect homepage"
TIME magazine has awarded popurls with #5 on this year’s 50 best websites 2009 list.

IBM, new sponsor of popurls

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:38:41 GMT

i’m happy to announce that IBM is the new main sponsor of popurls and the next curator of the popurls blue edition, a custom version for enterprise IT news. thanks big blue!

contents updates 09/08

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:37:35 GMT

welcoming this month’s fresh sites on popurls:

jolicloud, now with popurls

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:10:41 GMT

i’m happy to announce that popurls is now integrated with jolicloud, the new internet operating system of choice. popurls will run in an exclusive layout for ultra-mobile netbooks that is optimized for smaller screens and the speed of mobile internet connections. more infos on the the jolicloud blog.

quick update: hide twitter

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:48:56 GMT

if you prefer the prior version of the popular today section you can now disable the twitter news block via the customize menu.

mobile updates

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:36:48 GMT

here’s a quick update on recent changes to popurls mobile editions:

iphone & android now include a native search feature for all real-time buzz (a mobile version of search.popurls.com)
popular twitter stories have been added to the regular mobile & blackberry edition

on a side note, the regular mobile site currently uses a gateway to reformat web sites for phone browsers. given the increasing capabilities of those devices i will soon change all links to go directly to the target sites – let me know if you’re a heavy user and think that you might run into problems with that.
thanks

twitter back on popurls

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:19:39 GMT

the twitter section on the top right of popurls which features the most talked about stories in near real-time is now back after a short break to put a better spam filter in place. in addition you can now expand this news block to get a couple of more popular stories from all around the web.

minor content update

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:51:42 GMT

welcoming good magazine and the pbs newshour as well as ecosalon and travelpod on popurls.

contents updates 09/05 #2

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:16:17 GMT

quick update: welcoming the new nyt lens, laughingsquid, vi.sualize.us and failblog to popurls.

popurls 101 part I

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:25:12 GMT

although popurls looks deliberately simple at first glance, there are quite a few handy features that i’d like to point out once in a while with a series of 101 posts.

i receive a lot of emails from users who read an interesting story the other day but forgot to bookmark the url. popurls archive to the rescue – a daily snapshot to catch up on the news in the unlikely event that you missed a day of popurls or just lost the link to that flickr photo.
popurls search is not only the fastest buzz index next to twitter but it also offers you a neat way to track certain keywords in near real-time by subscribing to the feed url that you’ll get for each query on the results page.
the quickies section on the bottom of the page is still one of the most frequented parts of popurls, but unlike its name there’s also a widely unknown feature to view additional stories from a site by simply clicking its name which opens the respective headline box.

thanks for taking the time!