Popurls.com - Popular URLs to the Latest Web Buzz

Popurls gives you a list of the most up-to-date posts out there from the top blogs in link form. As you scroll over the links, you can see a small summary of what the article is about, allowing you to preview whether you´d like to read it or not. A few media sites are also included in the bunch. You can see the latest flickr photos, sound clips from Odeo, and videos from YouTube, iFilm, metacafe, and more. They even have some of the latest twitter messages. There are “quickies” at the bottom of the page that list one site per source or popular blogger. It´s an easy way to see what´s going on on the web on a single page. You can even get a minimized version for your mobile or widget for your blog.

“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 40.000 times each day.”

It´s incredibly popular and has been named as the best of the web to enter the 30 most popular sites on del.icio.us. The content is clear and easy to read, and you can personalize it to see what you want where you want it and how much content from each source.

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