the popurls blog: about popurls

popurls is the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet.

With the intention to get a quick glance on what’s happening on the web while keeping the common newsreader clean from short-term headlines, popurls was launched in march 2006 by Thomas Marban who is often mentioned for creating the original trend of “single page aggregators”. Rather than a tool, popurls is considered as a gate to an editorial selection of the most popular sites on the internet, presented in a usable way. After features on thousands of blogs and newspapers like the NY times, Yahoo! named it best of the web to finally enter the 30 most popular sites of all time on del.icio.us. Today, popurls is frequented more than 75.000 times each day.

“There’s no better way to watch the hive mind.”
Kevin Kelly, founder wired magazine

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First user feedback

Special thanks for featuring popurls goes to: Kevin Kelly, Seth Godin, Steve Rubel, Robert Scoble, Evan Williams, John Battelle, Andrew Baron, Kevin Rose, Jason Calacanis, Emily Chang, Mark Glaser, Amanda Congdon, Catherina Fake and all the loyal visitors for their constant feedback. pop goes the url!

comments

After only about 10 seconds at popurls.com it had become my new homepage. This could eventually replace my RSS feeds in Firefox. I really like being able to click the arrows to read the article right on the site instead of being brought to the actual article on the site.
— Jared Schwager · 2006-03-09
Wow, it's a great service... a mash-up of all the most interesting things in the web...
— Rolando Garza · 2006-03-09
Hey. GREAT JOB!
I love it!
Do you plan on adding any customization features?
Such as color changeing etc...

I changed around my protopage.com start page to incorperate popurls you can check it out at http://www.protopage.com/homelessbrian
— Homeless Brian · 2006-03-09
you're right, the colors are an issue. but hey, in the world of buzz white backgrounds are so 2005 ;)
i'll think over it for a while.
— tom · 2006-03-09
Tom: I had to deal with the black background issue (it was even hurting my own eyes). My solution was to set the background to #222, which makes all the difference. Try it and see what you think. A nice light blue with even #111 will probably work better than just pitch black.
— Christian Montoya · 2006-03-09
christian, i'll come up with an alternative on the weekend. btw: i like the illus on your site.
— tom · 2006-03-09
Great idea, great site. Continued good luck...but PLEASE make the text larger.
— Ken · 2006-03-09
Realy, really a good site :) Congrats
— Luca · 2006-03-09
Dude. Nice idea. Illegible implementation.
— Ken · 2006-03-09
I agree with making the background white, however I love the idea and I have made my own greesemonkey script to change the background and links colours to a more readable black on white.
— Lawsy · 2006-03-09
Lovely. I am going to be using it on a daily basis, if not more often. Very well done.
— Mark Papadakis · 2006-03-09
Need a dynamic update option. (preferably a dynamic updat
e ON/OFF button)

Cheers
--
Ian
— Ian · 2006-03-09
Nice....
I also do agree...the colors are an issue...
the design of the site is great though....

I wonder if you could make the headlines update automatically... instead of me having to refresh every time...
have it update every 5 min on the page erso...

that'd be awesome...
— Wannabe · 2006-03-09
I also agree that its a great website. A little too much info coming at you all at once, but nice nonetheless.

I would say increase the font-size, make the arrows a little bigger and allow for different bg colors. great work.
— Ramin · 2006-03-09
Last month, I have made the "same" web site for french digg-like but it is less beautiful, less web2.0 ... less everything ... : http://www.mesblogs.com/lesnouvelles.php3
Your site is great !
— victor · 2006-03-09
Classy site guys, excelent concept very well done. And after years of looking i have found my new home page.
But please make the text Larger!
— Ben Newton · 2006-03-09
Dark blue text on a black background may look sexy but it isn't easy for anyone to read. Please think about changing the text to some other color that doesn't fade into the background and more people will come back. I've visited the site a few times but it's such an eyestrain that it's not fun anymore.
— Jeff · 2006-03-09
nice idea! very well done. although i think it can still be improved a lot. mainly the readability, and also the RSS parser...it seems llike its not reading the quotes and some other elements correctly...
— jay · 2006-03-09
I don't mind the colors, maybe my eyes are more fit than others. I think the color scheme makes the page look unique. But if you do go for a change in colors I would suggest something like how jayisgames.com allows for users to pick their own color scheme.
(Stylesheet switcher on the left sidebar.)
— Ookami Snow · 2006-03-09
AWESOME, the font and design could use a little work but other than that
— Benggg · 2006-03-09
I'd really like an option to increase font size (like on digg) and have that preference stored in a cookie.
— bz · 2006-03-09
I couldn't believe how fast your website has become my homepage. The background color and the layout of the rss feeds are just perfect. It does not bother my eyes at all, don't listen to the old guys above...
Thanks for doing this !
— VortexICS · 2006-03-09
bz, i'm thinking about the digg font resizer - check back in the next days
— tom · 2006-03-09
Very nice website! Please, make me love it more by providing larger fonts and a better contrast!

Thanks
— Jason · 2006-03-09
You will become rich from this one. Congratulations.
— Steve · 2006-03-09
steve, you name it - i'm still waiting for yahoo to call and send the cheque $)
— tom · 2006-03-09
Thanks Tom, Great work, congrats. I was waiting for it. Now popurls will be the kickstart page. Is there any way to avoid shrinking and stretching of images shown from flickr? Also, wat about tags? Text is too small.
— Deepak · 2006-03-09
I really like this site. I have found all kinds of interesting and sometimes useful stuff. A couple of requests/suggestions. Please use a more legible color scheme. The current one is hard on the eyes. I have to turn off the stylesheet to read it. Can you directly link to the article that digg is referring to rather than to the digg item? It would save an additional indirection. Thanks for this great resource.
— · 2006-03-09
This is great. I have found all kinds of interesting and sometimes useful stuff. Two suggestions, though.

1. Please make the colors more legible. This color scheme is very hard on the eyes. I had to disble the stylesheet to be able to read it. I agree with the poster who suggested an RSS feed. Then the colors would be up to the feed reader.

2. Please link directly to the article referred to by digg. It would save us all one more level of indirection. These really add up when you click on multiple links.

Otherwise, great job!
— foobaz · 2006-03-09
The site is fantastic! Great work. The AJAX is smooth and makes browsing very pleasurable. I am an information addict and you popurls.com has become my new dealer.

I love the white on black, and the small text for my personal viewing habits. Everything fitting together on the clean page is very satisfying to me and presents no legibility issues, though other peoples' claims are most likely quite valid for their respective habits. I'm sure you'll work all that out soon enough with fancy web2.0 stuff (user-switchable colors and font sizes would probably satisfy everyone and their pets). In the mean time, congratulations on some real top-flight work!
— Ben · 2006-03-09
Great work Tom. This is my new homepage. What font are the sitenames in?
— Ryan · 2006-03-10
ryan, thanks for that.
the font is myriad bold, same that steve uses in his zen presentations ;)

@all: i'll come up with a style switcher in the next days, hang on!
— tom · 2006-03-10
I thought the headlines needed to be a little larger, too. CTRL+ in Firefix, and i was good to go! An auto-refresh of the page and darker text on a lighter background would make this a nearly perfect implementation. Thanks for the great work!
— Jeff Herron · 2006-03-10
Great idea, keep developing it!
— Elio · 2006-03-10
Great site! How about adding Metafilter.com?
— marc · 2006-03-10
marc, i'll add a 4th row soon.
if you guys have any suggestion for a possible buzz feed just post them here.
one should be http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/mostemailed i guess.
— tom · 2006-03-10
Tom, how about you add as many as possible and then give us a view control to add or subtract columns (avec AJAX?)
— MH · 2006-03-10
Im happy with the feeds there now, unless you make a feature to switch feeds. I think if any more were added it would start to get cludered etc....
— Homeless Brian · 2006-03-10
clutter is an issue, definitely. how bout swapping topix or comagz with yahoo or metafilter ?
— tom · 2006-03-10
boy, this is getting big - now featured on about.com
http://websearch.about.com/b/a/217950.htm

cheese 8)
— tom · 2006-03-10
Good job on the site. As far as the colors go, I like it the way it is.
— HankRearden · 2006-03-10
Very nice design I like it
— Refa · 2006-03-10
really nice idea, i like it.
my new start page.

well done.
— mauro · 2006-03-10
"how bout swapping topix or comagz with yahoo or metafilter?"

Sounds good to me Tom. I dont realy read either of thoes anyway so i guess i would be fine with that. Keep up the good work!
— Homeless Brian · 2006-03-10
great website, the minimalist desgn and the contents are great ! keep it on :)
— vinss · 2006-03-11
I love how you develop this website, but dark text on a black background makes my eyes skinny :)
— Yulia · 2006-03-11
hang on, the style switcher is coming soon. here is an exclusive preview:

http://popurls.com/stuff/popurls-1.1.jpg

you can switch between black/white and small/big fonts

how do you like that?
— tom · 2006-03-11
It's awesome!
— Christian Montoya · 2006-03-11
one for the morning: the first beta style chooser is live. it comes with page reload cause i didn't want to make you happy with the full 50k prototype.js
by the way, i've had a talk with the SVP of furl.net today (very cool) and i will include their feed instead of comagz - any objections on that?
— tom · 2006-03-11
Hey Tom, just saw you noticed us posting on Lifelesspeople - again, great site you have there, I'm sure it'll become very popular indeed. BTW, the style switcher is looking good - I really like both colour schemes now.

Keep up the good work,
Rob
— Spook · 2006-03-11
Good work Tom.
It would have been nice to have the page refreshed every like 10 mins and have the last refresed timestamp rendered somewhere.

Keep it up.
— George Papadakis · 2006-03-12
update: link descriptions changed to auto-flyout after a short time
— tom · 2006-03-13
i digg the auto flyout! keeps getting better and better man.
— Homeless Brian · 2006-03-13
LOVE the improvements. LOVE.
— Automaton · 2006-03-13
update: including number of diggs, simple site refresh after 10mins.
— tom · 2006-03-13
Will be posting about this site on a couple of Forums

Search Engines Web seems to drive alot of traffic to sites
— Search Engines Web · 2006-03-13
I am not one to bookmark sites. In fact, this is the only site I have permanently placed in my bookmarks folder. This site is exactly what I have been looking for. Very cool. Very convenient. Great job!
— Lockman · 2006-03-13
I see a small issue tom. When a subject of a topic in a feed is all one word it projects into onther feed. Hope that makes sense. When im full screen the subject line http://www.cabochon.com/~stevey/blog-rants/tour-de-babel.html on a the del.icio.us feed fits fine but when not full screened it does not.
— Homeless Brian · 2006-03-13
Tom, consider performing an scan on the urls to be rendered so you can skip duplicates.

For example, this calcoolater is being rendered in more than one module, taking space for no reason.

I could may be optional, but I am pretty sure clutter is something we all do not like.
— George Papadakis · 2006-03-13
george, that wouldn't be a problem but who decides in which channel to list the link? by the way there will be a second, combined and chronological, view of all news in one list in one of the next updates.
— tom · 2006-03-13
I guess an approach like the one implemented in Google news or in our news ( http://news.pathfinder.gr ) would do it.

Its an "see also" kinda thing.

Say you have a (2 sources) next to a link that has duplicates. On hovering (or onclicking) on this "2 sources" phrase could have all of the related info rendered below.

I am sure I sound confusing (too much work - not brains left), but the way I see it sounds friendly and easy.
— George Papadakis · 2006-03-13
Wonderful new changes.

Question: Can you reduce the delay for the info-pane the one paragraphs from the source) to open as I'd like to scan it more quickly... If not possible, how about the option of a floating info-pane.

Suggestion: how about a 'scan mode' where all info-panes open from top to bottom (so I can read summaries)

Another suggestion: allow me to click on the name of the source to go there (seems it would be a nice courtesy anyway) e.g. click on digg header and go there

Another suggestion:
Add an "open all"
— John Smith · 2006-03-13
thanks a lot for all your input, i'll publish a wishlist to get some structure for all those requests.
by the way, todays feature is to be found on about.com:
http://websearch.about.com/b/a/217964.htm
it's sweet to be listed next to flickr and craigslist 8)

for the stats: server traffic since the digg feature:
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— tom · 2006-03-14
Geez, add a google search bar on top of all that and you're becomming my default homepage!
— Frank · 2006-03-14
EXTREMELY cool . . I'd love a way to arrange the columns differently, so I could put Newsvine in the top row, for instance.

P.S. I like the black background - my biz. partner hipped me to the idea while I was developing my latest project - he said that maybe my eyes were hurting because staring at code on a white background is like looking into a light bulb all day long. Very true.
— Michael Kane · 2006-03-14
[...] Un-glaub-lich gut: popurls.com. Thomas Marban aus Linz hat einen Meta-Aggregator der besonderen Art geschaffen: Die neuesten popul
— TRACKBACK: popurls.com - Am Puls des Netzes · 2006-03-14
Hey Thomas
You need to work a little more on the new fancy layout. It's almost impossible to have the description-text appear _without_ the curser getting in the way of the text that's meant to be revealed. Do you understand what I mean? Perhaps a little extra space in there would do the trick.
— Tijer · 2006-03-14
Looks great. My new home page. But I have noticed that the mouse pointer tends to obscure the summary text when it pops down. My suggestion would be to have to summary info hide if you roll off both the title bar and/or the pop-down summary text. That way the mouse pointer can have more leeway as to where it can be placed to stay out of the way and without collapsing what you're trying to read.
— DJ · 2006-03-14
I like the design, and both looks are clean. Great job.

I noticed your site is starting to get overloaded. Amusingly it managed to survive the original digging, but is getting more visitors instead of the traffic dropping down. Goes to show how useful the site is.

I've replaced my digg/slashdot rss feeds with a link to this site. The only addition i would like would be the ability to customize the order of the feeds
— kraig · 2006-03-14
Cool site, I have not read through all the comments, but there is one - in my mind critical - usability issue with the page. After I leave and then come back, I cannot tell *at a glance* what the NEW links are.

I'm not talking about VISITED links - what has been added to the lists since my last visit that is new? The last time I visited, I looked at the links, I visited some and some I left. I can tell which ones I visited next time I get there, because the visited state of the link is gray, and I'm good to go.

But without reading (and trying to remember) all the titles again, I have no idea what is NEW since last time I visited. Let me know what is fresh, and you've got a killer page there.

Tom
— Tom · 2006-03-15
Very impressive, Just a suggestion but how about refreshing the feeds using AJAX rather than a full page reload. Whether the feeds are coming directly from the provider or aggregated on your own server, this would surely reduce your bandwidth cost.

I was struggling with the small font size but realised that you hadn't specified the size in pixels so I can resize it in the browser. Excellent work.
— Dave Kinsella · 2006-03-15
i've reduced the slider effect to the -more- function, you'll now get instant tooltips on mouseover. it's not that nifty, but very speedy and less fault-prone.
@tom, good idea i'll add it to the wishlist
— tom · 2006-03-15
Ohh Tom that's perfect! Just what I wanted (look up)
— Tijer · 2006-03-15
Tom, awesome site. It's pretty cool seeing the changes from the first version. I like almost all of them. However, I was wondering if there was a way to NOT have the page refresh automatically? Perhaps put it in the cookie or wherever you store the layout preference? This is pretty much the only site I use at work for news and such but at times I have to leave my computer, fully intending to come back to the links but when I do return some time later the page has refreshed and the link I wanted to see is gone. Just a thought. Thanks for all the hard work. Keep it up!
— Mike · 2006-03-15
Tom, I've got a suggestion that I KNOW you can implement!

So far, the layout has become rather large. I think it would be better if we could drag around the various boxes to make our own favourite page (i.e. google homepage). What you've done now is great, but if you added that I think the usability would go up tenfold.
— MH · 2006-03-15
That's better. Your last interface was great and the subtle sliding open and close of the headlines really looked wonderful and was a pleasure to play with. However, it just didn't seem to work. While the field was open the cursor was obscuring half of the view and when you moved the cursor it closed the preview.

For future releases it would be great to customise the feeds. I'd like to add some of my own, or have a way to get some of my NetNewsWire feeds in there.

Great work! Inspired. Wonderful.
— TF · 2006-03-15
Great site ! But I miss the auto-fly :p
— shirster · 2006-03-15
I think auto-fly was much much better. Very sleak. It took a little to get used to but now that i have goten used to it ITS GONE :-O hehehe. Oh well keep up the great work.
— Homeless Brian · 2006-03-15
yeah, i know - but having usability and fast view in mind i rather opt for tooltips than kinky sliders ;)
— tom · 2006-03-15
I totaly understand! If you wernt going for "fast view" you could use the moofx to make it so you had to click the little arrow to make the info drop down insted of just roll over. That would probly work nicely because the dropdown would only go down for storys you are interested in and click on.
— Homeless Brian · 2006-03-15
any interests for a small board to discuss features & buzz?
— tom · 2006-03-16
How about adding RawSugar (http://www.rawsugar.com/search/?sort=popular)?
— BillSaysThis · 2006-03-16
small board = yes!
It would also be fun if we had cute little avatars like the one you have, Tom.
— drea · 2006-03-16
A board would rock. Specily with you being so vocal with the users.
— Homeless Brian · 2006-03-16
This is an excellent homepage replacement.
— John Pastor · 2006-03-16
Hi Tom!

I've sent you a proposal via email concerning your board idea!

Great site!

Regards,
Jerome.
— Jerome Gravel-Niquet · 2006-03-16
Adding RSS would be awesome, but I'd also like to be able to click on the title of the feeds (ex. Slashdot.org, Digg.com) and be linked to the website.
— Eric Pheterson · 2006-03-16
the it press in italy is catching up 8)
http://mytech.it/news/articolo/idA028001065165.art

@eric, i guess rss would be the early end besides the fact that it would cause some legal problems. there will be an rss feed for -your pop- though.
@john, still keen on that google searchbox?
@drea, the author reserves the right to be the only cute person on his blog ;)

— tom · 2006-03-17
You should put a google Search function on the page and I would definately use it as my homepage.
— Ben Katz · 2006-03-17
Love this site and idea.

What criteria is being used to select the photos from flickr?
— Steve Zimmerman · 2006-03-17
i agree with the google search addition i would say make it a multi search where we can select what we wanna use to search with google as default.
— Homeless Brian · 2006-03-17
You're going to want the google search to pay for the heavy, heavy traffic you're going to be getting when everyone with a clue makes this their personal home page.

Yes, I have a clue. You did a great thing here.
— gb · 2006-03-17
I just love popurls.com... great job. Thanks for giving this to the world.

One improvement I would like to suggest however... if you get rid of the white header on top, users will have more useful viewing space.

Rich
— Rich Manalang · 2006-03-18
Nice. I agree with the whitespace usage. The buzz quote could drop onto the dark header, and more room would be much appreciated.

Perhaps instead of big/small text, it could be bigger/smaller to an nth degree.
— Eric · 2006-03-18
search is on, how bout that brian?
— tom · 2006-03-18
i don't get it - how does the search work?
love the website, though. a+
— seth · 2006-03-18
the launch page/IE folks wanted a simple alternative to a google searchbar.
thanks, btw
— tom · 2006-03-18
Looks good to me man! as always you pull thru with more than anyone expected! What ever happened to putting up a forum/bored?
— HomelessBrian · 2006-03-18
Hey can you guys make the title of the list, a link to the site itself?
and maybe an option for the animation effects used for stories w/ details, Good Work guys, keep it up!
— Benji · 2006-03-19
+ extended search bar, no whitespace, linked site title
— tom · 2006-03-19
The search bar is nice ! A small board would be cool too :)
— shirster · 2006-03-20
Awesome site.A preview of -yourpop- coming soon???
Really love the bob's cube site!!
— Ravi · 2006-03-20
the search bar is great! I love the way it appears like that!!
Im amazed how fast popurls has come on! Just a few weeks ago it was a few well presented popular links, now its looking really nice and still just a few well presented popular links, only better!!!!!!!!
— nogg3r5 · 2006-03-20
i dont see the problem with the black background. ive viewed it on a CRT monitor and now my laptop monitor and my eyes are fine. i prefer the black to the white bg anyway.

i love the site. its my homepage.
— Robin Cawser · 2006-03-21
heiligs blechle!
that's fat!
yours, m.
— miguel · 2006-03-21
update: submissions are open
today featured on: ~~macromedia~~ adobe's blog, ny times tech blog, cssliquid.com
— tom · 2006-03-22
Thanks for adding links to the main sites (like digg.com) in the titles!

Also, congrats on the well deserved attention you've received for this site :)
— Colby Blaisdell · 2006-03-22
you should add an option to the digg list (or any of the others) to take you straight to the article, and not go via the digg website.
— Robin Cawser (again) · 2006-03-22
I strongly agree with Robin!
— Seth · 2006-03-22
actually digg doesn't offer a feed that links directly to the stories (natch). besides the legal issue i don't think it's that neat to parse their html frontend for links. if anyone knows an url for a direct link feed feel free to post it here. thanks!
— tom · 2006-03-22
the only reason i dissagree is because digg is suposta be used to DIGG the pages. They wouldent want to offer a dirrect feed because people would stop digging and just go to the sites.
— HomelessBrian · 2006-03-22
Love the background and text options! You're my new one stop shop!
— Dave Curry · 2006-03-22
I agree with HomelessBrian. aking you straight to the story would take so much away from digg.
— nogg3r5 · 2006-03-22
Great, but there's no way to remove panels. For example, I don't care about YuoTube but I still need to waste my time on it.
— Jonas · 2006-03-22
jonas, there will be channels (links | photos | video) in the future but as i said above popurls will not offer personalization because it's no technological service that offers rss fetching but rather the one stop shop for a quick snack of web zeitgeist. there are lots of web/desktop readers that are doing very well but they are not what this site was meant to be.
— tom · 2006-03-23
Tom,

You could have the links opened like the way about.com links open. That is by having a frame ontop of the content page, thus adding the ability for the viewer to rate the page, mail it etc.
— George Papadakis · 2006-03-23
george, thanks fors that - though there has to be an alternative for the tab and _blank guys. what do the others say?
— tom · 2006-03-23
i think i would need to see a demo on how you plan on doing it before i could decide. I it wouldent even hafta be a working demo maybe just an example.
— Homeless Brian · 2006-03-23
Also, wouldn't it be nice (Beach boys rule) to have a diggest mail delivered to the one who desires with the most popular urles every night?

A list of the most popular urls of the day maybe groupped by source.
— George Papadakis · 2006-03-23
the greatest day in popurls life 8)
- featured on rocketboom http://rocketboom.com/vlog/archives/2006/03/rb_06_mar_23.html
- popurls overtakes newsvine in amounts of delicious bookmarks
— tom · 2006-03-23
Keep up the good work Tom.
— George Papadakis · 2006-03-24
Thanks a lot for your excellent service...
— cristian · 2006-03-24
Definitely never add adwords. If you need revenue I do think you could add one line for an "underwriter." I bet the click through rate would be insane if buzzworthy companies bought it. No more than 7 words, one line. Food for thought.
— Tristan · 2006-03-24
I was just thinking it would be cool if we could move around the resources how we like it, a little something with ajax.
— Shayne · 2006-03-24
Awesome design - replaced my "about:blank" homepage!

Minor criticism: I find it a bit counter intuitive that the 'section headline links' extend beyond the 'section headline text'. When clicking on would-be inactive space (to gain focus etc) a link will be followed instead.
— Magnus · 2006-03-24
Good work! It's my favourite home page :)
— mcdave · 2006-03-24
hey Tom- Congrats on the success of popurls!

my request - save in the cookie whether or not the search form is left visible. :)

thanks!
— James Carlos · 2006-03-25
thanks again for all the mails and comments on the site. i'll soon open the board to allow for better communication as this thread tends to be quite cluttered due to the unexpected rush on popurls 8)
— tom · 2006-03-25
I like everything, I'm not picky about font size or background color, and I wouldn't mind a few more feeds. :)
— Thom · 2006-03-25
Dude,

popurl's is now my home page - simplicity wins again.

Boo ya.
— Bossplot · 2006-03-25
UPDATE:
- added yahoo most emailed news instead of topix (feed kinda sucked)
- added nowpublic and ~~squidoo~~ spurl (how'd you like them?)
- your pop beta news are open (submissions are yet moderated)
- turn on/off media feeds (flickr/youtube)
__
sidenote: currently looking for a new hosting provider, the db gets dizzy when new york wakes up
— tom · 2006-03-25
Heya Tom, great updates! How does your pop work? Also what kind of hosting provider are you looking for? Shared or Dedicated? Check out these providers I use(d):

- dathorn.com (reseller)
- mediatemple.net (all)
- tranxactglobal.com (dedicated)

Good luck!
James
— James Carlos · 2006-03-25
believe it or not but top-notch mediatemple's perfomance is really lame here in europe. i tried one of their vs a year ago.
— tom · 2006-03-25
Sehr sch
— Felix · 2006-03-26
Great work, thanks!
— Nersh · 2006-03-27
very nice quote from the co-founder of nowpublic.com:
since you included our site on popurls, you have sent us more traffic than technorati! that is awesome, shows the power of your site
— tom · 2006-03-27
great layout,
keep an option of adding feeds (RSS/Atom)
then I can replace pageflakes with pageurls.

keep updating...
— selvin · 2006-03-27
Would it be possible to re-add the expanding headline feature onmouseover as a user option? I know this is not what some people prefer, but would making it the non-default option involve too much? Thanks.
— mauricio · 2006-03-28
great design, looks very nice.
— Kris · 2006-03-28
found you from rocketboom. Like the site well enough to immediately make one of my Firefox home pages. Customization of column placement is all I need to make you the only home page I use. Thanks
— john · 2006-03-28
Almost my home page, almost. If you had feeds from Lifehacker and Wired, I'd be hooked.
Alternatively, could you add an RSS feed for 'Your pop'?
— v.dog · 2006-03-30
rss is ok, lifehacker/wired only as a replacement for current feeds (clutter!). any comments on that?
— tom · 2006-03-31
Yea im with v.dog. Can we get an feed for yourpop?
— Homeless Brian · 2006-03-31
there you go for beta testing:
http://popurls.com/feed_yp.xml
— tom · 2006-03-31
swanking: featured in today's UK print edition of the times, right next to michael jackson 8)
article times UK
— tom · 2006-03-31
8:18pm PST
Every Picture in the Flickr section has a cat in it... ummm.... wtf!?
— Shayne · 2006-04-01
oh yeah! It's April Fools there I guess.
HAHA
— Shayne · 2006-04-01
Good idea !
— bear · 2006-04-03
[...] Popurls liefert einen kompakten
— TRACKBACK: Eierlegende Wollmilchsau fuer News-Junkies · 2006-04-05
really NICE info website :)
— Bob · 2006-04-05
I have to agree, popurls is a fantastic place. I now use it alongside netvibes as my homepage in FireFox. It's that good!
— Gerard McGarry · 2006-04-06
popurl is great. what stinks is that it opens a new window with every link. that is so 2001.

fix, yes, please?
— john · 2006-04-07
Looking really good... works great...

Here is another website you might think about...
betanews.com
— Wannabe · 2006-04-07
a new japanese clone launched today:
http://news.qooqle.jp/

(thanks for giving credit)
— tom · 2006-04-09
Fantastic! I was attempting to build something similar (but on a smaller scale) over the past few days when I stumbled upon yours via Digg. The only suggestion I have is to perhaps consider using something other than the 'title' tag for the tooltip summaries as they often truncate longer entries (Slashdot and Google News in particular). Perhaps a DHTML or JavaScript tooltip? Again, just a suggestion and great execution of an idea.
— Dave · 2006-04-09
thanks again for all the feedback, some will make it into the update within the next weeks. new feed suggestions are still welcome, just post them here
— tom · 2006-04-10
Great site, but I've got to agree the colors are tough to read. The blue link text needs more contrast with the background. The visited links are so dark and of so little contrast as to be unreadable.

++
— gimme · 2006-04-11
i miss some tagging, rating and recommending. i mean: get socialised :o

damn, its great! but i want to filter it more with my own interestcloud
— kosmar · 2006-04-11
oh: and an rss feed of it :)
— kosmar · 2006-04-11
Popurls has changed my life. Last week I was getting Approx 30 hits a day, today I should break 20k. Thanks for posting the link in your pop!
— Rob · 2006-04-13
thats awesome rob! Its funny becuase your link was posted on digg a LONG time ago and yer prolly getting more hits from popurls
— Homeless Brian · 2006-04-13
LOSE the blue on black home page. MUCH easier to read is good old black on white, black on yellow if you must be distinctive. Aging eyes will appreciate the change, your helpful link references will too. Thanks!
— Dick Webster · 2006-04-13
Great Site! It's nice with its simple layout. I think it's going to be very useful. It's gonna change my reading habits.
Thanks.
— MattV · 2006-04-13
Your site is my homepage.
— jessew · 2006-04-13
changes for today:
- removed spurl.net (spurl's content was redundant)
- added metafilter.com, fark.com, shoutcast.com, wired.com
- added experimental podcasts from odeo and video.google.com
- frontend is cached now, no more database issues
— tom · 2006-04-16
Still lookin great tom! My one sugestion is making the odeo area look a little nicer. my quick sugestion would be something that looks like this maybe? http://www.homelessbrian.com/images/odeo.jpg I just wiped that up real quick I know its not amazing or anything but it has a bit of the odeo website feel to it.
— Homelessbrian · 2006-04-19
Hi, congratst to the site. I've been using it for a while! Now I'm thinking about putting together my own list of feeds inspired by popurls, so I was wondering how your scripts (especially the make nice titles one) are licensed. Thanks for a brief reply.
— Tobias · 2006-04-19
This is one of the best Web2.0 applications I've seen! A collaborative news aggregation site that really works. High level of useability, and great content. Makes a perfect home page. Congratulations.
— Mark · 2006-04-19
Looks great, but would be even better if we could choose what sites to show and what to not, or even rearrange the sites as we please.
— Matt · 2006-04-20
once again, thanks for your feedback. discovered some great buzz on popurls today (see top of the page)
— tom · 2006-04-25
sweets for today:
wired founder kevin kelly goes popurls
http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/001213.php
blogger.com and odeo founder evan williams likes it, too
http://evhead.com/2006/04/popular-urls-to-latest-web-buzz.asp
now overtaking tailrank, reddit and newsvine in number of del.icio.us bookmarks

— tom · 2006-04-28
This just a comment to say that you have done a great job on this. Your idea is so simple but so effective!. Your going to be rich with this =D
— Evert · 2006-04-29
Hay just a suggestion, I would love a word of the day!
May I sudgest: http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/rss.html

Absolutely LOVE the site!
Thank You!
— akira117 · 2006-04-30
If you are looking for ways to save bandwidth, consider enabling gzip compression support! It looks like you'd reduce your bytes sent by up to 66%., as shown by this tester: http://www.whatsmyip.org/mod_gzip_test/?url=aHR0cDovL3BvcHVybHMuY29tLw==

Nice site!
— Emil · 2006-04-30
Also liking this site a lot, would be a nice feature if u can see on 1 sight , what news are new for yourself (not just the visited sites).

Greets
— Larser · 2006-05-03
Nice! How'd it take me this long to bother to check this out? Couple of things:

First, I'd like to tell it to change the order that sources are listed. That way, if I use popurls as my browser home page, I get to see different things "above the fold" every time I visit.

Second, the "vote for this site" text beside "discuss" is invisible on the white background, might not be what you want.
— Rich · 2006-05-04
Popurls is a great way to keep up!
— Russ Pratt · 2006-05-05
Great site, really cool! It seems the only one feature I and others miss a lot is ability to rearrange and customize feeds.
You're special Tom in being so responsive and alert to users feedback and input. Keep up the good work.
— Kpjas · 2006-05-06
Good work, but can we get it in UTF-8? All the Japanese articles from del.icio.us are getting garbled on Popurls. Also, being able to hide certain feeds (like how we can turn off media feeds) is a suggestion I second.
— Younghusband · 2006-05-07
so tom..... We all know popurls rocks and it looks like ya got a nice thing goin on with celumimage. Whats next in the works for Mr. Thomas Marban? Can we expect any cool new projects or some sweet updates for popurls? :-D
— Homelessbrian · 2006-05-09
I love it.

I hope that someday we will be able to customize it a little bit. I'd like to add stuff I like (say, some of the gawker sites) and remove some stuff I don't like much (del.icio.us)
— Chris Coyier · 2006-05-09
I would add physorg.com, which is science news, and yes, perhaps some of the gawker sites (gizmodo, gridskipper, whatever)
— Sean · 2006-05-11
Thanks for popurls ... well done. I only want one more feature: ability to click a button and 'mark all read' so that the next time I come to popurls, I can see what's NEW since the last time I was there. Thanks again!
— Bryan · 2006-05-14
Hi, Great site, i think your my new start page! Being able to re-arrange stuff would be a great option and the ability to add other favourite feeds would be cool.
— Rob · 2006-05-15
Very nice page. Very useful. Read it every day along with my usual RSS in Google Reader.
It seems today's update created a bunch of duplicates. digg and del.icio.us blocks list each item twice.
— Guillaume Boudreau · 2006-05-16
Hey, I love this site!!

What happened to video.google.com though? It was there a couple of days ago, and now it's gone! I like the variety it brings as an alternative to youtube.com.

Thanks,
Jules
— Jules · 2006-05-19
Love your site, thanks for PopUrls!
— Evan · 2006-05-20
i have an idea for you. would it be possible to make a 1280x1024 version? i easily have room for an extra column, 6 extra flickr pictures, and 4 extra ifilm/youtube videos. at the very least, i wouldnt have to scroll down quite so far.

otherwise, i like the site. great of you to do something like this for the community (even if it gets you some nice publicity).
— jonny · 2006-05-21
The AJAX previews are very helpful when mousing over the links - the site is loading noticeably faster

Perhaps a seperate feed for UPI, AP and Reuters by themselves

for a font idea - try Microsoft Sans Serif - it is possibly the most aesthetically balanced, and readable of the san serif family
— Search Engines WEB · 2006-05-21
If you choose to hide the search functionality after putting focus on the search field, the field maintains focus, thus leaving a blinking cursor in black space... not backbreaking by any means, but somewhat distracting. I'd suggest attaching a blur command for the search field to the function that toggles its visibility.
Browser/OS: Firefox 1.5/WinXP

Otherwise, awesome Site!
Matt
— Matthew Foley · 2006-05-23
great value addition for the information aggregation aware masses!
I used to get my mobile world relevant infos off of this page
http://www.mobile-phone-directory.org/News/
I am not affiliated to them, but they have a good track record and are a timesaver themselves when it comes to scanning through mobile news.
— Jonas_HD · 2006-05-26
This is soooooo great. My new homepage (I never used one before). Thankyou so much!
— Rob Record · 2006-05-28
A great site, its like its been around for years. So useful to find out the latest buzz around the world (or at least on the web). Regular visitor to the site... brill.
thanks
Bim
— Bimal · 2006-05-28
popurls is a really cool website
— Bob · 2006-05-31
tom,
i love popurls, i am an addict, it is my home page, most useful news-aggregator.
if there is something like a wishlist, here are my two wishes. First, ability to change the order of content, second,make things like the search bar permanently visible.

-carsten
— carsten · 2006-05-31
hi carsten, thanks for that - i'm curious what the others think about the permanent search bar and how many heavy users are out there?
— tom · 2006-05-31
Tom, I check popurls at least 20 times a day, seriously. Sometimes I'll get up in the middle of night to get a glass of water, walk by the computer, and...hmm let's have a quick peek at popurls.com. A thousand times thank you for such a wonderful site.
— michael wong · 2006-06-01
I like your site, but why must you use blue on black, which might appeal to teenagers but is almost impossible for an older guy to read, even though I enlarge the type.
— Al · 2006-06-05
It's a fantastic page. My first visit reminded me of seeing the classic Google front page for the first time, and there's no higher praise than that for website design.

It WOULD be my homepage, if I could have things that mattered (Google News) at the top, and things that really, really don't (digg - no offence to anyone, but I think we can agree that the situation in the Middle East is more important than why Apple/Microsoft/Linux/Sony/Nintendo sucks, no?) at the bottom. Maybe this is possible now, though......?
— Samuel Wade · 2006-06-05
Good idea, all in one page!
— Find in Forums · 2006-06-07
Hey thomas, great site!! I visit daily, especially for screenblog and popurls....
Congritulations...
— Mehmet Balioglu · 2006-06-09
Hi,

Love the site, use it daily. I really wish there was a way to organize the feeds in a different order though. I'd love to see slashdot higher up in the list.
— Tom · 2006-06-13
I'm totally addicted to popurls. My one wish is that you could better handle entities that appear in the titles, such as quot, #39, etc. Fark in particular seems to use a lot of these and it makes the titles quite difficult to read. Otherwise, carry on!
— Paul · 2006-06-28
I think it's a great update, thanks alot
— Dustin · 2006-07-10
Bless your heart, I love the new ability to shuffle the feeds around. Good job laddie.
— geekgranny · 2006-07-10
Popurls keeps getting better and better! Thanks.
— Kate · 2006-07-10
Hooray! Great Work and Service!
What is the best way to ensure that the browser/popurls will remember my arrangement? I tried protecting the "matrix" cookie, but today, the arrangement shows the default layout...

P.S.
I think I changed my mind about Netscape feeds.... you are redirected to the home page unless it remembers you. Even if you create an account...

Thanks Again!
— John · 2006-07-10
the cookie is stored for one year, did you check your browsers cache settings?
— tom · 2006-07-10
Wow! I remember askng for the reordering feature last week! ure a legend! Thanks!!
— NOGG3R5 · 2006-07-10
Well done Tom.

Pretty well done.
— George E. Papadakis · 2006-07-11
thanks!
— David Eshelman · 2006-07-11
GREAT JOB! I know people have been begging for this. Ive always been okay with the layout. Its grown on me a lot, so i doubt i will change anything.
— HomelessBrian · 2006-07-11
What about adding some finance feeds?
* Seeking Alpha - http://seekingalpha.com/
* BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/default.stm
* Wall Street Journal - http://online.wsj.com/public/us
* PRNewsWire - http://www.prnewswire.com/
* Yahoo Finance - http://finance.yahoo.com/

Just a thought, but adding at least one of the above will broaden your scope on users and add tons of value!

BTW: Good job on the site and keeping up with the requests!!
— ed · 2006-07-11
I'm checking popurls everyday, great job!

Thanks! :)
— Jukka · 2006-07-22
I think it would be nice to be able to select you screen resolution. So it would add more thinks so it would even add more stuff so it would even out. Because on my resolution things are not positioned that well. The content does not fill the whole space.

Love the site!
— Akira117 · 2006-07-24
i love this website. its my homepage in fact.
theres 1 change that has changed though, and thats youtube feeds.
i think you'd be better off without the links to youtube anymore due to the fact that the majority of them now in days are idiot vloggers who pretend to believe their popular and making a difference with their incredibly lame videos.

it would help a lot if youtube was removed, because then i wouldn't be reminded with all of the stupid video's on the net
-_-

cheers!~
— paul · 2006-07-24
FANTASTIC IDEA!
— Pablo · 2006-07-25
Great tool for procrastination, been using it for months. Even my 10yo son knows it as "that black site", am I really on here that much? Anyhow, loving everything but if you added all the stuff from the BBC News site as well it would save me another click every day as these are my two sites for procrastination.
— Paul · 2006-07-26
How about changing the digg feed to go to the actually article instead of the the digg page?
— joey · 2006-07-27
because digg won't offer that in their rss feed - let's see what the API can do...
— tom · 2006-07-27
Excellent home page.......pls bring back Fark and dump netscape...it has a very annoying half screen...as new things happen please consider elimating the hassle ones... the ones where you donot get a direct link like shoutwire. Awesome site I use popurl everyday and tell peeps about too! Thank you!
— Roger · 2006-07-28
Great site, I check early and often, just dump Shoutwire, I tire of their Anti-American and Anti-Semitic pro Islam crap.
— angelo · 2006-07-28
The ability to remove certain feeds ( Netscape for example ) would be much appreciated. Thanks for the site, nice work :D
— Marshall · 2006-07-29
popurls.com absolutely deserves this ranking. brilliant idea thomas, well done..
— Mehmet · 2006-07-30
It seems the flickr's photos on popurls.com are not the most recently photos by everyone post.
I have tried many times and found no clues about how did the photos be caught by popurls.com.
How does it work? Or does popurls.com only show the special group but not everyone's photos on the page?
— robbie · 2006-08-02
Great site! What did we do before this? I see there is a little icon to change the colors to black on white. Do they work yet or are you still working on them? Thanx again.
— Evert · 2006-08-03
@robbie, flickr photos are derived from the interestingness pool, these are not necessarily the most recent ones
@evert make sure you're accepting cookies
@angelo/others anyone else wanna drop shoutwire?
@roger fark is back since a few weeks, i'll stick with netscape now - you know polarization is everything ;)
thanks to all!
— tom · 2006-08-03
Yeah, Shoutwire is a bit too sensationalist. How about my comment before with the RSS feed for digg links straight to the story?
— joey · 2006-08-03
I'll second that Shoutwire suggestion. They from Syria? ;)
— Evert · 2006-08-03
Thanks for a great site.
When my site was featured on popurls... it brought in thousands of new visitors. I owe you much.
— Ahmed · 2006-08-04
just a word on FM: as i promised a few months ago it will be the only banner on popurls and i guess it was placed acceptable if compared with something like this:

--

the site is non-funded and has already exceeded 200gigs/month. passion can't pay the bills and therefore it needs sponsors, period. and thanks to FM you will only find quality ads there. right now it's apple and rackspace.

if things turn out all right it will be hosted in a powerful sun grid in the next weeks. i'll keep you posted.
— tom · 2006-08-07
200 gigs and rising im sure! The banner ad placed on popurls is 1000 times less intrusive than most sites out there. Like Tom said "passion can't pay the bills" If it takes one OR even a few banner ads to keep this site up and running than so be it. Once again keep up the great work! Im lovin! the direct digg links.
— HomelessBrian · 2006-08-07
love this site.

request: would it be possible to get rid of the fixed width for the comics? ever since they were added, i have to resize my browser to view the page. maybe i'm the only one that finds this problematic. if so, please ignore me.

thanks for the great page.
— scott · 2006-08-08
you're better than farty google.
rspct
— milo317 · 2006-08-09
[...] Today I switched my browser’s home page from Yahoo, which I’ve endured for years for lack of something better, to Popurls.com. Popurls aggregates the web’s best news, pictures, and video into a simple and elegantly designed interface. You can even customize the display and save the settings without signing up or logging in. What’s exciting is that this is the work of one developer/designer, Thomas Marban, and that the site itself is conceptually very simple, combining rss, ajax and great design to great effect to create a hugely popular service. Thomas has also embraced the idea of iterative development based on real user feedback. You can see the notes on popurls’ development and achievements over at his personal site, tom.ma. It’s fun to see how responsive Thomas is to feedback. It all feels very personal and honest; this is the way web apps are meant to be developed. [...]
— TRACKBACK: Phoenomi - Surfing the Longtail · 2006-08-10
I love how you are doing contests and stuff on the site now. Im crossin my fingers on getting on of thoes books. :-P Do you plan on doing more contests?
— HomelessBrian · 2006-08-10
brian - sure, but only if a fancy opportunity or idea arises. you should really cross your fingers, there are already 900+ submissions in the first 24h 8]
— tom · 2006-08-10
holy crap! HAHAHA thats nuts!! My hopes have been crushed!
— HomelessBrian · 2006-08-11
Great implementation and project! I'd like to see a method for jumping down to the correct section/feed without having to scroll manually.
— Matthew Ogston · 2006-08-11
i agree with Matthew. some sort of nav bar at the top of the page right below the color break linking to each section would be awesome.
— HomelessBrian · 2006-08-17
How bout adding http://www.youpickthenews.com to the page? They have great news stories.
— Mike · 2006-08-25
Great site mate, keep up the excellent work. You deserve a HUGE kudos for listening to requests so positively and intelligently, and keeping the site w3c compliant - finally a quality site that works flawlessly on Opera.
— Luke · 2006-08-27
Love the site, after perusing, I don't need to check 8 other sites for the same input. And this is the best use of hover I've ever seen. I hope this is the beginning of a beautiful thing.
— anonymous_josh · 2006-08-29
[...] Und auf Popurls beshreibt er es so: popurls is the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the internet. With the only intention to get a quick glance on what
— Basic Thinking Blog » PopURLS.com · 2006-09-02
I'm a regular to this site. How about having a section which features a unique and interesting site everyday to compliment the regular ones you host?
— DudeAsInCool · 2006-09-04
that's already in the drawer, but keep this a secret 8)
— tom · 2006-09-04
I
— Hetal · 2006-09-18
Nice site. I visit throughout the day.
I'd kill for a preference to turn off the rollover title tags.
— svenjolly · 2006-10-10
sven, that's already working though not activated yet - look for it in the next time
— tom · 2006-10-11
After playing with about 15 different rss based services, popurls has earned it's place as my favorite, and my homepage.
— Nathan · 2006-10-15
Thanks for the story preview preference. Awesome!
— yaddablah · 2006-10-25
// the following comments origin from the ipod contest
— tom · 2006-11-15
It's easy to just come and read my daily sites at one -- Digg, Delicious, and Flickr. I've also enjoyed finding new sites such as Gaping Void; never would have found them without someone pointing them out like this site did.
— Spamboy · 2006-11-16
I visit popurls at least 5 times a day. It's by far the easiest way to keep up with the sites that I was going to anyway. Thank you very much for the fantastic site, and I hope I win :)
— Aaron Junod · 2006-11-16
The best of the best news every day on one screen. All words. No crap.
— Preston Fischer · 2006-11-16
I think popurls has a lot of good rss feeds but mostly I just want to win a nano.
— Brent · 2006-11-16
the minimalist and objective beauty of having your finger on the pulse of the web. that, and the brilliant spot-on design.
— mz · 2006-11-16
popurls has become a permanent tab in my firefox session! It connects me with all my favorite news sources, and allows me to easily sift through and find what's important to me. I always have hours of entertainment, and when i'm done looking at everything I can simply hit refresh and get pretty much a whole new list of stuff for even more entertainment!

Thanks goes to popurls for actually creating something unique that makes my internet life easier!
— Rob · 2006-11-16
I love how all of my favorite sites are right here, with none of the crap. Stripped down to only the things that I am interested in. I love popurls.com, and will keep coming back as long as it exists!! Thanks for all that you do.
— Eric · 2006-11-16
I'm not sure what keeps me coming back. It must be something like to heroin. I have withdrawals when I can't have it. I nearly jumped out a seven story window when my cable modem refused to load my Popurls!
— Michael · 2006-11-16
making it my homepage big time!!! I want the nano...I wanna get that Nike kit to go running and join that community!!!! If you do I will tell all my friends about popurls.com.....otherwise I'll keep this JEWEL FOR MYSELF =)
— Vincenzo Belpiede · 2006-11-16
This site is an easy way to glance at the top tech related content published every day! Even when I'm busy, I can scan the list, add content to my scrapbook then come back later when I have some time. I also like the fact that for such a perfect and simple product, you continue to add features that do not add too much complexity to the tool but add REAL value to the people using the site. Keep up the good work!
— Jim Rutherford · 2006-11-16
It's the one and only single page aggregator. popurls rules them all. thanks!
— Drew · 2006-11-16
Why do I keep coming back every day? Because I am hopelessly addicted to the sublime juxtaposition of easy, simple, and useful, wrapped in a beautiful design. Popurls is my default homepage, fer cryin' out loud!
— jeremy hulette · 2006-11-16
Except for the Fark section it
— jonas · 2006-11-16
Thomas Marban is always listining to the users and making changes to make popurls better and better. That would have to be one of my main reasons for always coming back. Not only is popurls a great resource for all types of online media, it is all bundled up into one nice sleek design that is constantly getting better. I visit popurls atleast 20 times a day and im sure Tom can see that in his stats. :-P Popurls has been my homepage from the first day I found it and I dont see that changing any time soon. Once again Tom, keep up the great work!
— HomelessBrian · 2006-11-16
Easy to use and cleanly designed access to the best info presented in a way to enhance serendipituous discoveries and ideas. There is an obvious intelligence behind the site and it's evolution. Thanks.
— steve squier · 2006-11-16
I can come to one spot to get everything I need to catch up on and it saves me having to waste my bandwidth going to all these separate sites and clicking on yet another link from there.

popurls is my internet hub.
— Laurence Anderson · 2006-11-16
Wonderful interface, options and functions. It is my source for news. Other aggregators have tried but nothing comes close. Way to go guys!

PS- 1,000 of those daily siteviews is me refreshing!
— reepher · 2006-11-16
It's like having the whole internet on one page.
— m cosgriff · 2006-11-16
the amount of information popurls fits above the fold is an inspiration.

a request for your next release: detect browser window width so i can see even more buzz side by side
— sandeep · 2006-11-16
many sites have tried to be a portal for their visitors in the past
but none before Popurls managed to keep me so hooked at refreshing it.
there are so many newsbits i am not missing anymore. thanks!
— fr · 2006-11-16
popurls is my favorite news overload site - bar none. I tell everyone I know to use it.
— joe · 2006-11-16
It's easy to see what are popular topics for different communities. Rather than visit all these sites separately, I can do it all from here. And the design is great.
— Farmer in the Deli · 2006-11-16
It saves me from going to a lot of different sites all the time...one stop shopping :)
— Dale · 2006-11-16
and at work, just to see what the world is buzzing about at that moment.

I work in marketing and PR, so I have to keep abreast of the news (that's my official excuse) but I actually suspect that popurls has found a way to release endorphins in my brain via HTML. I have to return, again and again!
— superBadGirl · 2006-11-16
dead simple interface with great looks, great links and great features. a daily visit to be sure, even if my wife wonders why my browser only goes to popurls. thanks for the service!
— jeremy · 2006-11-16
I am completely addicted to popurls! I constantly have it open in a browser tab at home and at work, just to see what the world is buzzing about at that moment.

I work in marketing and PR, so I have to keep abreast of the news (that's my official excuse) but I actually suspect that popurls has found a way to release endorphins in my brain via HTML. I have to return, again and again!
— superBadGirl · 2006-11-16
This site easily saves me an hour or TWO of wasted time each day. Thanks for helping my wasted time be more productive! :)
— bsx · 2006-11-16
Digg without having to go to Digg.
Delicious without having to go to Delicious.
Reddit without having to go to Reddit...
...all within one page.

It's pretty fascinating to watch the echo chamber effect take place across the three, where a meme travels from site to site.

Oh, and for the record: Blaugh is without a doubt the worst webcomic I've ever seen. Its only saving grace is that it's at the bottom of the page, a place I now avoid like the plague.
— lordie · 2006-11-16
Super simple. The news I want to read right there as my homepage. And it's a simple way to see if any of my photos have made flickr's Most Interesting Photos pool. ... Hasn't happened yet.
— Alex · 2006-11-16
popurls gives me a handle on the A.D.D. effect of too much information. and helps me not only waste time when i need to, but find productive things when i need to as well. amazing.
— kp · 2006-11-16
The best of all sites without the need to visit each one or run a RSS reader. Thanks!
— AreYouMyDad · 2006-11-16
Everything I need in 1 neat customizable page, without any popups or annoying Ads...what more can I ask for?
— Venky Gopalan · 2006-11-16
I love popurls' clean, straight forward interface. It's refreshing to know that there's quality web sites that do their job well without a lot ads or extraneous information on the front-page.

Furthermore, the information displayed on popurls keeps me occupied all day long :)

Keep up the good work!
— Dell Thornhill · 2006-11-16
Popurls is great because whenever my friends say, "Did you see ____?" I can always say "Yep."
— Ben · 2006-11-16
The latest news, the best sites, clean and minimalist style, what more can you ask for? ... Ok, you *could* ask for a feature to add custom feeds (just add the name, the RSS URL and click OK) that would be visible only by you... But we don't want to make this the PERFECT news site, or do we? ;)

My one and only news source. Period.
— James · 2006-11-16
I have absolutely no attention span. At all. I can't get through a single activity without deviating from my task half a dozen times. Work or play there is music and television and my guitar, or Painter or Photoshop or a chatroom or pong or something. It is the central problem of my longwinded existence. I've navigated away from this comment box six times and counting thus far...

The mass consumption of info is vital and having the equivalent of the radio 'scan' button available at one easy to read, well designed site is essential to my continued employment and well being. It's like chucking the internets at my head all Jackson Pollack-y while Excel and my cubical and office drama eat my resources and my soul.

I love you like waffles, Popurls and I love waffles!
— nicolle · 2006-11-16
Beautiful Site. The best way to learn about things you should know as well as things that there is no need to know but are fun to know.

— britt · 2006-11-16
Popurls is like the bestest website EVER!! Since the first time i found it about 3 months ago i set it as my home page on my pc, my laptop, all my family's computers AND my college account! I visit it so many times a day that i lose count, always have a tab open that continuously refreshes itself, and i end up having about 20 tabs open each time because i scroll through the entire page and ALWAYS find something i want to read or watch and even listen to, oh yea, and the page is so well put together and easy on the eyes!! Lovin' the layout!... simply put... POPURLS ROCKS!
— Fauzan · 2006-11-16
My favorite because of the look of it. I can get the same thing from Google IG/Personalized home, but it doesn't look as good. I also like popurls because it does not automatically refresh my page.

If you want suggestions, allow user logins so I can login and have my same custimizations on another computer. Also, adding feeds would be cool but you have most I like (except for lifehacker, download aquad and engadget) but it would be nice to have the ability to change Reddit from the best of the day list to the new list so I can see more...or if I could see BOTH! ;)
— P.Binder · 2006-11-16
Popurls makes a great homepage. I'll see an interesting article or two when I open up my browser and repeat it whenever I start surfing. Lots of headlines on one page means that there is always another link that interests me.
— Sean · 2006-11-16
i love the fast summary of everything going on. i dig through all these feeds manually using bloglines, but i use popurls like the front page of the paper - glance and catch the headlines.
— smc · 2006-11-16
It's quick and easy to see the latest articles, photos, etc. on the major websites. The format allows me to easily see the articles of interest without paging down, and only pulls the latest information. Great for a free moment.
— Chris · 2006-11-16
The site is fantastic. It looks great and I always learn something new from the linked pages. One subtle feature I especially appreciate is the direct link to most popular dugg articles, bypassing the digg page. Keep up the great work.

Is the blog design based on the Hemingway Wordpress theme? Looks like it to me. Also might suggest that a searchable archive page of all the links that get listed here would be a great feature.
— ansel · 2006-11-16
I love the site for it's smooth design and the absolute information overload it provides. I also use the mobile version on my cell phone to keep an eye on the net when I'm out and about. My favorite feeds are digg, del.icio.us and netscape. Great stuff Tom, thanks!
— Patrick · 2006-11-16
it's my homepage!
— melanie · 2006-11-16
I love popurls. It's my homepage and will stay that way as long as it exists, which it shouldn't have any trouble doing. It's a great homepage because it connects me to the news that I want to know, and saves me the searching of all of the individual sites to find the stuff I want to know, its like the ultimate homepage. Also, what keeps me here is that you consistently listen to your visitors feedback and implement these changes into the site making the site easier to use and more useful. I also like the customization that the site allows, the colors, the layout of the RSS feeds, it just great. I recommend friends to the site and they keep coming back because it is just that good of a site.
— John · 2006-11-16
there's no better way to find out everything that's happening right this second & there's always something new to discover.

also it's great to see you've partnered with some of my favorite sites (esp gavpingvoid.com)

really missed popurls yesterday - you seemed to be offline :(

thanks for coming back :)

A
— adam · 2006-11-16
It's a handy way to glance over what's going on at digg/reddit/newsvine/youtube etc etc without needing to subscribe to frequently updated rss feeds.
— Alex · 2006-11-16
perfect place to browse through the headlines of everything new on the web. great site.
— tim · 2006-11-16
Popurls, what can i say? Its my homepage, its updated daily, it has all of the latest articles, its...awesome
— Lyle Johnson · 2006-11-16
I wanted to be a part of the REAL Web 2.0. Substance. Style.

Everytime I show someone Popurls.com for the first time, they genuinely act like I have shown them the coolest thing since browsing and IRC.

If you never gave me anything else, you have already given back time that I can spend with my family instead of plowing through tons of pages and feeds. Everytime I read my newspaper in the morning, more than half of the news was already on popurls the evening before.

Thanks a million
— Jason · 2006-11-16
Love the site! This is the handiest way I have found to view all of the best of the web, and to have it organized right in front of me. PopUrls introduced me to Flickr, del.ic.ious, and Digg. I have recommended the site to many colleagues! Keep up the reat work!
— Brian · 2006-11-16
POPURLS I LOVE U!!! WE ARE EACH OF US ANGELS WITH ONE WING, ... WE CAN ONLY FLY BY EMBRACING EACH OTHER.
— DAVE · 2006-11-16
I can't not visit. The design and customization options make it my own personal heroin- it's addictive and I don't want anything else. I sincerely thank you for this!
— Laura · 2006-11-16
I refresh therefore I am [bored]
— andrew · 2006-11-16
Like: Layout, Look, Links
Thanks !!
— Nick · 2006-11-16
Its amazing to come here, read, learn about the world and different niches from society and just be part of the new internet revolution.
— Eduardo · 2006-11-16
This site IS web 2.0. If you likey the news, and the other crazies on the net, this is the perfect jumping point. I'm feeling froggy..
— Steve Dillon · 2006-11-16
Single page. All information.
— Peteris Krumins · 2006-11-16
You are my homepage. You're like family.
— Colin · 2006-11-16
I really dig Popurls because the links are baked fresh every few minutes and taste delicious. In barely the flicker of an eyelash you'll find new stuff on the vine, unfurling and boing boinging all over the page. Heavy.
— Nate · 2006-11-16
Best. Site. Ever. All of the news I'm interested in all in one easy page. Simple. Streamlined. Relevant.

Thanks.
— John Kimbrough · 2006-11-16
i love this site... ipods r good 2!
but this site is this best.
its always up as a tab on my mozilla browser, this site is the best!
— "sunshine" alexander · 2006-11-16
i absolutely love all the sites i can get from here!
— "sunshine" alexander · 2006-11-16
popurls is the most addicting website ever. The constant barrage of intesting sites is like a fix to my info web addiction. Popurls is a hyper-efficient way for me to feed my addiction. I also love the simple and user-friendly design.
— paul · 2006-11-16
I have popurls set as my home page, and start daily from here. Great links to sites that I like
— ramchand · 2006-11-16
Every time I visit this site, three to four hours disappear. Thanks for a great way to keep up to date and informed!
— alex · 2006-11-16
im addicted to news, and popurls feeds it nicely :)
— rouan · 2006-11-16
I can't live without my PopUrl's ... I hit it up numerous times a day ... in fact it almost lives in a constant tab in Firefox - I love it... THANK YOU
— Mr K · 2006-11-16
Popurls.com has changed my entire perspective of the web! I used to visit like 3 web pages a day and now I am clicking on a wealth of links that is educating me more and more everyday.. keep up the good work!! Corey
— corey · 2006-11-16
because for some reason, it's easier to scan than my own identical page in my rss aggregator...
also because of the beautiful flickr module...
and the constant improvements...
and popurls.mobi...
— ziad · 2006-11-16
I only come to Popurls for the sweet name of the site. It's so fun to try and pronounce. Often times i'll sit in front of my screen, saying 'POPURLLSSS' over and over again, slurring it worse with each attempt, while my coworkers stare at me in disgust.

But you know what? I'm okay with that.

I love this site.
— Maxo · 2006-11-16
Yeah.. With Popurls I can really maximize those priceless minutes of coffeebreak surfing.. Thanks man. Keep up the good work!
— pt · 2006-11-16
Finally, one extremely clean and neat website to get all the darn links. I am so addicted to them!

I simply LOVE popurls!
— Carlos · 2006-11-16
popurls + blackbook (macbook) = aesthetic pleasure
— Matt · 2006-11-16
I'm not into RSS, and I don't have time to look at all the different aggregrator portals. POPURLS.com is teh bomb. It's been set as my home url in Firefox and IE since I discovered the site many months ago. Great work...keep it up!
— Sundog · 2006-11-16
It makes me feel omniscient. One quick glance and I know all! ;)
Plus it's organized, clean, and really efficient.

Thanks for creating it.
— Khurrum · 2006-11-16
POPURLS.....better than poprocks!!!
— soyyo · 2006-11-16
Such a beautiful, beautiful site holding all the news I want - how can I not visit?
— Patricia · 2006-11-16
popurls is the site that destroys productivity at school and work... and i love it!
— IC · 2006-11-16
popurls tastes great in milk!
There hasn't been a day I haven't visited popurls.com - the simplicity of layout makes it easy to scan the stories I want to read from the sites I read from. I Love it!
— Richard Testani · 2006-11-16
Popurls is an instant reference to what's happening on the Internet. And it's so beautiful, oh so beautiful.
— Ted · 2006-11-16
This site, more than any other, has made me question whether or not I suffer from INTERNETS ADDICTION.
— Ben · 2006-11-16
Sorry if this is a double post.
Un-biased aggregation, an easy to read layout, and a crisp design are what keep me coming back.
— Toby McClellan · 2006-11-16
I love this site! Its been my homepage since the first day I stumbled on it. The clean layout, ease of use and cool ideas(like darkening links ive already visited) keep my coming here 10 times a day. Thanks for making my news habit easier to maintain.

J
— James Rutherford · 2006-11-16
I love being able to come to one page and get some much information. And the options so tweak the look of the page are a major plus.
— Ward · 2006-11-16
its like christmas over here. I can see cool sites everyday without opening so many browsers. I love the concept. Simple and useful. Keep it up guys. You make Web 2.0 work !
— colbert · 2006-11-16
One of the few sites I visit over and over every day. Thanks for such a clean and easy to use interface.

-J
— Juan · 2006-11-17
Popurls is my first site of the morning. Most everything I will hear talked about during the day is right there already, easily layed out. Also, I really like the pop-up previews (the yellow toltip boxes) when I come across ambiguous titles. Oh, and I can watch news stories as they migrate across different newsfeeds, seeing how they gain or lose relevence. Thanks for a great site.
— freetaco · 2006-11-17
"when i need a real hit of news and info i reach for my popurls!"
"i'm a popurls man."
"nobody does it like popurls"
"popurls, we bring good things to life."
— dustin · 2006-11-17
Again, love the popup previews. Love the minimalist design of the page.
— Mattholomew · 2006-11-17
how else am i going to pretend to know what's going on in the world? your site makes my cereal taste a little bit sweeter every morning. good going guys.
— Ryan Vaughn · 2006-11-17
i discovered your site a year ago, i think.
amazing job and progress.
— graymer · 2006-11-17
One stop shopping for all the latest. The layout is clean and the design is minimalistic and highly usable. It also helps to reduce traffic in the series of tubes.

P.S. Like any good beer, there's no bitter aftertaste.
— Tim · 2006-11-17
This is the quickest research tool for trends and what's hot,if you are an internet marketer.
— Robert · 2006-11-17
best addictive-productive site I have used!
— alessandro · 2006-11-17
I first was a regular at news.google.com then heard about digg got hooked to it but soon ran out of stories to read. Then the worst thing in my life (well one of the worst at least) happened; I came to know about popurls. Since that day majority of my "online" time is spent here, this includes free time and even some time during office hours (dont tell my boss :P). So in a way i hate you for creating this service coz now i never seem to run out of stories linked on this site and spending all my time here hardly leave me time for anything else. You are my cyberhome -- not homepage --- my cyber home !!! Keep up the good work and yeah i still hate you :)
— Anant · 2006-11-17
There is always something that I am interested in . . . that I never knew I was interested in . . . so about 10 times a day, I learn something new about the world, and therefore myself. Thanks!
— braha · 2006-11-17
POPURLS is an aggregator of aggregators -- I can check all the sites I want to from one page, and consequently, I love it because I am able to read much more in much less time.
— F.E.F. · 2006-11-17
I love it - one stop for everything happening.
— Lynn · 2006-11-17
hi, great site! this has been my homepage now for a good 4+ months! can't go a day without it- thanks!
— Meech · 2006-11-17
Let's give thomas kudos for a job well done and making this simple yet wonderful concept so popular.
— Anne · 2006-11-17
w00t
— c0ldfusi0n · 2006-11-17
This great site allows me to come to one place to get the gist of what is going on during the day.
— Daniel · 2006-11-17
I always go to Popurls because it can keep me occupied for hours. The amount of content you list is amazing.
— Anthony · 2006-11-17
This is my goto site for a quick net overview. It's easy to stay on top of trends.
— Luis · 2006-11-17
I keep coming back since my friends think I'm a genius because of all the great links I send them...
— Jason · 2006-11-17
I spend far too much time on this site, and it's because of how simple it is to use!
— robert · 2006-11-17
I like coming here simply because you bring the links from a lot of other great sites together in one place. It makes it easier for me to keep up on a lot of stuff without having to go very far.
— Ray · 2006-11-17
used to use bloglines, but would chew through the content too quickly. there's _always_ something to read on popurls.
— chris · 2006-11-17
I'm a tremendous Digg fan. I appreciate how often it's updated by the users. I also just check out all these sites I would never have encountered had I not stumbled upon popurls.
— funkdigital · 2006-11-17
What I enjoy most about this site is that every time I recommend it to a friend, they come back and thank me. And then the friends of my friends come back and thank me too. So, popurls,... THANK YOU.
— Michael · 2006-11-17
popurls.com is a great idea, well-executed. Like a great invention, it meets a common need with grace and simplicity and causes people to say, "Why didn't I think of that?"
— JustBob · 2006-11-17
I just want to see what's new!
— Olly · 2006-11-17
A beautifully formatted, easy to read summary of what going on in the world and on the net. My number #1 distraction.
— Anm · 2006-11-17
I love this site. I have found tons of useful stuff through Popurls and think the mix of information is unbeatable.
— Oli · 2006-11-17
Clean design, good information and no annoying ads. Like a mac "it just works"
— Hiro · 2006-11-17
I check this site all the time, not only to check the pulse of the web but also because it's been an invaluable resource to me quite a few times. I've come across quite a few web based resources that i've applied to my work, and subsequently shared with people we work with - it's ended up making my organization more agile online and has also been of great benefit to our colleagues (not for profit urban health focused organizations) as we've started putting on workshops about opensource and web 2.0.

Thanks a lot!
— Sean · 2006-11-17
this site keeps me posted to the most important - and, the most un-important information of the world - keep it up!
— MURPHY · 2006-11-17
Tom, I enjoy this website because there are no comments,
no one rating or voting for anything. It is a delight to just be able to absorb information without the hassle or clutter.
That and if you give me the ipod I will wash your car for a month!
(includes tire dressing but no interior work)
Thanks again,
Don
— Don · 2006-11-17
I wasn't the type to go find news and never really found a site that could keep me updated with a variety of what I wanna know. Having the option of all of the best sites for keeping up to date rocks! :) I've passed it along to my co-workers, and now it's our homepage :)
— HTS · 2006-11-17
First time visiting from http://www.web2list.com. Like the site and sure will be back...
— lmd · 2006-11-17
my favorite site period. i remember making it my homepage the first day i found it. everything you need in one spot, no frills just the guts of the most interesting sites on the web. Congrats on a job well done.
— john · 2006-11-17
popurls is my homepage and to me, there is no other portal on the web that that can beat it. All the latest news at my fingertips, the most popular bookmarks and links on delicious and digg, the best pictures on flickr and of course, my favourite, the most viewed videos on youtube. There is so much content available and its all presented in an easy to read manner(white text against black background - I love it!). There are few advertisements but they don't get in the way and that daily comics right at the bottom, it just makes you want to scroll all the way to the bottom to view it.
Overall, the best website for me in terms of content and display.
— Jonathan · 2006-11-17
I come back every day because it saves me the trouble of dealing with a dozen sites' ads and incongruities. Beautiful design and nice features are a bonus, too.
— Jordan · 2006-11-17
Found you on kk.org/cooltools. Been back every day since. Thanks.
— Dave · 2006-11-17
Was my new homepage the minute I saw it. Everything I could want with nothing I don't. Makes my daily strolls through the internet much easier to navigate when I have everything importatnt all on one page. Definately doing good work here.
— fahrenheit · 2006-11-17
Great layout that is clean and straight forward with plenty of options. Plus, there's no ads asking me to guess who's legs are being pictured. Thank you
— Joshua · 2006-11-17
Hey! You guys are cute, with your fuzzy wuzzy pretty links. I want to kiss you so hard!
— Justin Wong · 2006-11-17
it tells me all i need to know. its my homepage and its a great place to start browsing.
— wusk · 2006-11-17
As a developer of the next generation of services within the field of ubiquitous computing one must know his competitives...
— Jonas · 2006-11-17
Simple, fast, clean design. One stop for all my websurfing needs! Thanks!
— Eric · 2006-11-17
Grey background and direct digg links!
— joey · 2006-11-17
It's my Safari homepage, and it's going to get me fired
— Pellucid · 2006-11-17
love this site! i visit this site daily ... love the layout ... keep up the great work!
— Jen · 2006-11-17
The news is updated all the time, so I know what has happened within the last few hours. Being able to customize the order of the news sources means I can get the news I want when I want it.
— zd0gg · 2006-11-17
One Stop, for all my needs, technology, arts, entertainment and what not.
I could get more and only more.
I have bookmarked in delicious, stumble, shadows and much more
— vinodvv · 2006-11-17
You feed me information, you make me happy.
— Ed Jez · 2006-11-17
I love this site and the continuous improvements from visitor feedback. I'm so glad I can rearrange the order now and also the direct links on the feeds is awesome!
— Davud · 2006-11-17
Useful clean and simple. Excellent design! Thanks
— Vlado · 2006-11-17
My homepage! Great typography, always up and running...No frills or spills, just the best info/news site on the planet all in black & white...take your pickurls!

You're the rockurls!

Heh heh heh....Love you guys!
— jillian · 2006-11-17
that sexy theme!.... oh and all of my fav feeds
— dave m · 2006-11-17
Popurls has all of my favorite information sources consolidated into one web page. How convient is that!?! Quality soruces, easy navigation and a clean look are the hallmarks that make Popurls a great place to go.
— Devon · 2006-11-17
I just like friggin butterflies, man...
— George · 2006-11-17
the best way to start the day: coffee & popurls.com
— dodonedid · 2006-11-17
POPURLS is a nice supplement to my boing boing and metafilter habit. I like the balloon summaries.
— Doug · 2006-11-17
Thanks for a great site - this is by far the most visited site out of all of my bookmarks.
— Henry · 2006-11-17
A day online without popurls is not a day at all.
— Kevin · 2006-11-17
*refreshes frantically*
— Andy · 2006-11-17
I love the fact that I can customize the order, size of text, etc... and you carry all of the hot Tech and News sites!!! LOVE IT!!!!
— Brannon S · 2006-11-17
I check this page religiously. Breakfast, popurls, lunch, popurls, dinner ... well you get the picture.
— Ryan · 2006-11-17
it truly keeps me plugged into the Metaverse...and i never thought that would ever be possible in such an efficient and elegant way!!!!

LOVE IT!

skip
— skip · 2006-11-17
Usefull, minimal. I think that i'll do the "italian popurls" for only Italian sites. I'll try my best ;)
— SnaKKo · 2006-11-17
First thing I check when I open up my laptop in the morning and the last page I check before closing it down at the end of the day. For me there is simply no better way to keep track of what are my favorite rss feeds anyway. This page occupies the first tab of my browser at all times. Popurls is a good idea and above all well executed. Thanks guys!
— Guido · 2006-11-17
with popurls you are in the center of the web...
— elvirs · 2006-11-17
After 7 years of Fark.com as my default log-in page, it took an amazingly comprehensive site like popurls.com to steal me away. It's hard to imagine how this could get a whole lot better for me.

c-
— Chuck · 2006-11-17
Such an awesome site for getting the latest and most up to date news from multiple sources all over the internet and conveniently all in one place! :D
— Stitzu · 2006-11-17
popurls.com is great for killing some time without spending a lot of time visiting many sites seperately.
— Allen · 2006-11-17
it's like sitting in the front row and watching as the world weaves the web.
— farai · 2006-11-17
Popurls has, in one place, all the sites I would be putting in my tabs. The only thing I would add is maybe another host, something like dev.popurls.com which could cover sites like dzone, ajaxian, mashable, proagrammableweb, read/write web, etc. I would love that! I know they are out there but the popurls feel is just so much better. Cheers!
— mike · 2006-11-17
simply popurls is the best website and checking it daily is a natural job!
— Ninh · 2006-11-17
PopURLs is one-stop shopping for the attention-deficit technology generation.
— Mike · 2006-11-17
popurls.com i set it as homepage on all my computers... everything on one site, be it politics, humor, picutres just amazing. I wouldn't know what to do without it now.
— sutheep · 2006-11-17
Just the newest sites at one place! It's so simple and cool!
— Robert · 2006-11-17
First of all, congrats on the success. Before I found popurls, I had about a lot of tabs and a number of feeds I would sort through every morning or at different times throughout the day. Now, I get all my content on one easy to view page. Thumbs up and continued success.
— The Mighty Joe Young · 2006-11-17
I love popurls. It is the one place I visit multiple times a day. Through popurls I find out so much about what is really happening in the world. Thanks so much for the hard work and I wish continued success to everyone involved in popurls!
— TommyShag · 2006-11-17
popurls allows me to surf without surfing, wandering without getting lost, saves me time for losing my time on the web...
keep it up
and thx
— st · 2006-11-17
Popurls: Aggregator Squared - the shortest path between my brain and what's worth knowing on the net.
— Tom · 2006-11-18
Popurls provides the most intuitive interface to the web's hottest content. Period. The ongoing development of primary interface features, as well as the ultra-cool labs projects show a keen sense of style, technical prowess, and keep me coming back, not only for the day's news, but to search for the little improvements to popurls, itself.
— michael · 2006-11-18
Popurls is great! I keep coming back because the website has a clean, quick design that includes all pages I look at on a daily basis.
— Chris · 2006-11-18
I visit frequently because it helps me to add interesting articles and snark to my blog. i never know what I might find and that is the whole fascination.

Thanks.
— Debra · 2006-11-18
The Butterfly Effect. "Who knows what's next".

"The slightest difference in initial conditions make's the prediction of past or future outcomes impossible". Edward Lorenz' Chaos-theory.
— A. Klaver · 2006-11-18
Wow, what a great resource! I get all my news on one page! thanks!
— Charles · 2006-11-18
popurls is awesome, a simple idea done with a great design. I am addicted to this site and cannot get any work done! It is the best way to get a pulse on what is big on "The Internets".
— Marcello · 2006-11-18
The first thing I do in the morning is not check my mail, but visit popurls.
— JT · 2006-11-18
Popurls.com has completely replaced NetNewsWire, Rojo, FeedReader, and all the other aggregators I used to be chained to.
— Britain · 2006-11-18
This is my favorite website by far! I have to thank Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools website for writing about it long ago. I used to check multiple sites for interesting articles. Now I just come here.
— Scott R. · 2006-11-18
popurls is the bomb. it's the place that I check every single day for the latest and coolest things on the web. it's so much better than having to go to multiple sites to see what's going. thanks popurls.
— Chnz · 2006-11-18
Where else can I get all my net gossip in one convient place?
— Teeny · 2006-11-18
Best metasite EVAR. Seriously, all of my daily webertainment and news in one place? Sold.
— Joshua · 2006-11-18
Popurls is the best aggregator of content I've come across so far. The fact most have roll-over data that tells you the summary, that it brings in the best news sites, social networks and doesn't limit itself is extremely useful and convenient. I like the customize features too. It's well thought out.
— JTK · 2006-11-18
I stumbledupon... and I never stumbled away...

its like a 7 layer burrito... each element good on their own... but layer them together in one all encompassing structure... and you've got something that would be foolish to deny.
— Chant · 2006-11-18
ALELUYA,EVERYTHING IN ONE PAGE,THANKS
— guillermo serrano · 2006-11-18
the perfect fix for my daily news etc.. popurls keeps me current and shows how to do it right.
— Michael · 2006-11-18
Love your site. It gives me the overview I want - every day. Keep up the good work!
— Stian · 2006-11-18
Efficient, elegant design. I don't have a lot of time to browse articles in any given day. I get all the controversy I can handle right here! Flickr section is great too...
— Mitchel · 2006-11-18
Popurls give me All the World's Buzz in a short period of time. In business it pays to have a grasp of Internet Buzz, Pop Culture, News, and Technology. Whether I am speaking with a client, a Venture Capital firm, or posting articles on hyperthinker.com, I can always count on Popurls to provide me with the information I need. I have been a solid evangelist for Popurls from my first visit on
— BMoore · 2006-11-18
It's my homepage - it's like crack - my one stop shop fir all things internet - I love the flickr pulls. Good work and keep it up.
— Hamza · 2006-11-18
Better than most aggregators as far as usability and design. I'd rather come here.
— Chris · 2006-11-18
pop give me the feeling to have an army of very well informed friends who share the same interests as me and have a lot more time than me. Thanks pop, cause U save me hours of research. Like that I have more time for girls in Paris. Continuez comme
— Uman_ET · 2006-11-18
POPURLS.com is the best way to keep your finger on the pulse of the internet. It's funny how I read news via popurls.com days before the major newspapers pick it up. I have become the go-to guy in my office for all the latest news.
— Jake · 2006-11-18
Ha. I made it my home page quite a while ago and I look at it like 20 times a day. I love that i can get news about EVERYTHING I am interested in (even things i didn't know i was interested in) quickly and easily, in one place. In a world of TOO MUCH INFORMATION, popurls does a great job of whittling it down to the niftiest nuggets!
— Larry · 2006-11-18
well, since I use popurls I got a rid of my newsreader. and it's great for me, my computer is so shit that can't run a newsreader without freezing.
— dixler · 2006-11-18
This website absolutely sates my thirst for knowing what's goi