the popurls blog

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

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

welcoming this month’s fresh sites on popurls:

• npr
• true/slant
• entertainment weekly
• icanhascheezburger
• clipsyndicate
• webcastr
• sciencedaily
• wikipedia featured

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

thanks for taking the time!