the popurls blog

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

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

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

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.

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:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.