the popurls blog

update for digg

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:47:15 GMT

just a quick heads-up that everything works flawlessly again after yesterday’s launch of digg v4.

popurls gets acquired

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:04:35 GMT

i’m happy to announce that popurls has been acquired by tweetup, an idealab company. after more than four years of solo work, i’m thrilled to see popurls become part of a big team and the new possibilities this will open up. for further infos, see the official press release or techcrunch.

special thanks goes to wired mag’s senior maverick kevin kelly whose blog post on popurls in 2006 got it all started.

quick iphone tweak

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:53:59 GMT

i got a couple of requests for this: you can now enable an option to have all links on the iphone/android version opened automatically in a new tab instead of going back & forward between sites.

opera mini support

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:15:09 GMT

you can now use the .com main site as well as the plain .mobi on opera mini for both, the iphone & android.

popurls on ipad

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:54:34 GMT

a quick note that all popurls sites work pretty well on the ipad in their current layout & design so while i’m obsessive about specific versions for each and every device, there will be no custom site for the ipad — just point it to popurls.com and you’re good to go.

the buzz on google buzz

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:11:50 GMT

i’m constantly looking for new sources to incorporate into the popurls apparatus so i built a crawler to analyze random public google buzz profiles for 48h. the results are obviously based on a completely non-academic approach but it gives me the sense that the more valuable data, i.e. current news/shared links is (if at all) hidden in private streams as, besides a long-tail of mundane stuff, the most commonly published links only included the usual suspects such as facebook, foursquare and other social media spam (that users are auto-importing from other services).
that being said and for the time being, the data i’m collecting on twitter (also seen on twittersphere.com) is of much higher value when it comes to finding time-critical buzzing stories.
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thanks RWW for picking up the story » discussion here

content updates 10/03

thomas@marban.at (thomas marban) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:43:29 GMT

i’ve just rolled the new content update for march. a couple of new sites now featured on popurls:

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:

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.