Monday, March 13th, 2006
Popurls.com - The Latest Internet Buzz
Category: Showcase
Popurls.com looks to provide a simple, clean interface for a portal to the “most popular” urls from the hotest sites out there as soon as they break. Among the sites on the list, there’s all well-known names - digg.com, del.icio.us, furl.net - and some others that are a bit less used, but up-and-coming none the less (such as Newsvine and Topix.net).
The interface is simple, laid out in columns for each of the sites, and full-width areas for the two more graphical of the sites included - flickr.com and youtube.com. For the sites that provide more detail in their feeds than just the title of the post, they make use of the moo.fx library’s effects to slide out the extra content when the mouse is over the topic’s title.
The site also refreshes to go out and fetch the latest headlines from each source and updates the page to reflect the updates pulled from the feeds. There’s also the option (on the text feeds) to view “More” of the entries for each list, just in case you missed some. The site hit the front page of digg.com and was highly complimented on its clean interface and simple use of Javascript effects to make a usable, useful, relevant site.
[...] Popurls.com muestra de un vistazo todo el buzz de internet, con bonitos efectos y una interfaz limpia y elegante. [VÃa Ajaxian] [...]
That’s very cool. I have to admit, it’s very slick.
You’ve linked to topic.net instead of topix.net :)
Consider it bookmarked!
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I have to say it is a good looking website but I prefer http://www.netvibes.com because you can choose what feeds you want. I also think it looks better. Not to keen on the white font on black background
Yep! I’d still prefer netvibes over popurls… popurls lack the user interaction/customizability which almost all known web2.0 sites have.
Very nice site! Thanks guys, you really work hard to pull this stuff out of the woodwork. And great work Popurl.com guys! Sweet site!
Ajax everywhere now. When we focus js/css/html, we forget others.
Popurls.com
Popurl.com met en ligne les buzz les plus populaires du web.
[...] Let’s just see if a Google search bar is added. (via Ajaxian) [...]
Pretty nice-looking site, nicely done. The effects are done in good taste as well.
I like that the main content is rendered within the code as well, not via XHR or something (accessibility, etc.) - but the page is very heavy with all that information (~290 KB of HTML from “view source!”) and the inline mouseover/out event handlers, target=blank and so on.
To save some page weight, the events could be moved out to a single document mouseout/over handler which would observe the type of “target” element involved (eg. event.source/targetElement) and if a link, call the proper handler depending on the event type (mouse out/over.) This is also less work than having a loop which assigns event handlers to each individual link (not to mention memory leaks galore in IE if you don’t specifically unhook them! :) )
great site — i have a feeling with a search box selector for each of the sites, this may make it’s way to my browser homepage.
Is the source code available?
[...] the buzz on popurls.com star for a day you might have noticed that i’ve opened the buzz fetcher popurls.com a few days ago and let me say that the feedback was just overwhelming. the first 12 hours brought 14.000 unique visitors, 2 hours dugg to death and 5gigs traffic/h after the site went #2 on del.icio.us popular and kevin rose published it on digg.com’s frontpage. after 24 hours it’s now featured in almost 100 blog posts and sites, among them the uxmag and about.com while traffic is still increasing. nice tidy clean site, no adverts, no junk, very nice, great design…i love the ajax - click the arrows people! ++digg the main purpose of the site is to get a quick glance on what’s happening in the world of web buzz while keeping your serious desktop/web rss reader clean from all that amusing and short-term stuff, or to put it in the words of another user: +digg because this is a really cool site. aggregator or not, i will find more things here than by looking on my own! so nothing really new out there and already seen on digglicious or diggdotus in a similar way. but while these nsfw and feeds-on-feeds sites still count on comments, votings, ratings, adwords, blah popurls takes the lean way and omits all that clutter. anyway, have fun with it and don’t forget that life is what happens to you while you’re busy reading news feeds making other plans. 14.03 update: traffic still increasing, featured on the ajaxian, second time on about.com, climbed top 10 on daypop, more than 1300 bookmarks on del.icio.us [...]
From the user stand point:
1. found hard to read that many links on black background - must give an option tp change a background color and font size!
2. can not change text size - even on “large” setting the font still remains the same
3. mouseover effects are great but need to have more padding around and a bigger font.
Popurls.com, surprised me.
Thanks for the information!
Interesting - Thanks!
The content is great, “content is king”
They have added so many new feeds since their intitial release - and the site is loading faster.
There is now an AJAX preview mouseover popup. Very Helpful
haha that’s a cool concept: they just display all the SB services together :)
very easy but also quite a good idea imo.
It´s a thoughtful and simple interface.
A good work!
thanks for the info, it’s a really great help http://www.conchos.com
A very helpful information.
Thank you!
Great work! Does Ajax also work with IE7?
Yeah that looks really good…
thanks for the information (bookmarked;)
Interesting - Thanks!
That’s very Cool , I have a new bookmark now : )
Nice spam-question *g*
Ajax everywhere now and a novum. When we focus js/css/html.
Very hard to understand-i am a beginner with ajax.
Cool! Thanx alot
I’ve created a popurls clone about apple’s world. Powered by wordpress and simplr theme. The most populars blogs of applesphere are included in http://www.applefeed.net.
Thanks for the absolutely fresh content http://www.purses.com
I have made one for Tech news .
Looks promising, have bookmarked it.
Thanks a bunch for this article, but i must say that it really looks prosmising
Popurls.com is a great website.
I still preder Popurls over netvibes.
Thanks For daypop too!
I must admit, popurls is quite sweet. The site is clean and brilliantly laid out. I don’t know why another poster said it lacked web 2.0 accessibility and design. As far as I’m concerned, the site is brilliantly laid out, and the black background with the white lettering is great. Nice for a change, as well, especially since black is not used much within web (and web 2.0) design. I suspect this is because in the old days it looked horrible – and it still can look horrible if not done neatly and well. Popurls has done a great job on this. They’ve also showed me some sites and tools I wasn’t aware of, so I will be checking those out too.
There is also a new website that just made its debut offering RSS content aggregation, personalization, and the ability to sign up and post your own content, which is automatically made available via RSS. Check it out at http://www.GetMyScoop.com
I wonder if Popurls offer blog extended properties. Is this customizable? For how long will this be for free?
That is very smooth. just Beautiful!
Check RSSGeni Feed Aggregator, a popular Popurls and Alltop Clone PHP Script
http://www.rssgeni.com
Now that really Pops!