Photo by Hamed Saber
Check out popurls. popurls allows you to view some of the best stuff on the web in one place. It aggregates (collects) a bunch of information from multiple web social sites and displays them in one location for you to browse through. Here’s what you’ll see:
1. Digg
Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online.
2. del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website — the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.
3. reddit
reddit is a source for what’s new and popular on the web — personalized for you. Your votes train a filter, so let reddit know what you liked and disliked, because you’ll begin to be recommended links filtered to your tastes. All of the content on reddit is submitted and voted on by users like you.
4. flickr
Flickr – almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world
5. newsvine
Updated continuously by citizens like you, Newsvine is an instant reflection of what the world is talking about at any given moment.
Metafilter is a weblog (what’s a weblog? | comprehensive history of weblogs) that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. A typical weblog is one person posting their thoughts on the unique things they find on the web. This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members.
7. truemors.com
The purpose of Truemors is to democratize and spread information. First, from a “citizen journalist/editor” perspective it enables you to “tell the world”—within the bounds of good taste and the law anyway. Second, from a reader perspective, it puts you “in the know” about the latest news, rumors, and happenings, so that “you know better” without having to spend hours every day searching for information.
8. YouTube
YouTube is a popular free video sharing website which lets users upload, view, and share video clips.
Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from more than 4,500 English-language news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader’s personalized interests.
10. news.yahoo.com
Use Yahoo! News to find breaking news, current events, the latest headlines, news photos, analysis & opinion on top stories, world, business, politics, etc.
11. tailrank.com
Tailrank is a memetracker which finds the hottest posts from millions of blogs so you don’t have to!
12. spike.com
IFILM (spike.com) is a leading online video network, serving user-uploaded and professional content to over ten million viewers monthly. IFILM’s extensive library includes movie clips, music videos, short films, TV clips, video game trailers, action sports and its popular ‘viral videos’ collection. IFILM is one of the leading streaming media networks on the internet.
13. wired.com
A division of Condé Nast, Wired Digital is a group of websites that includes both Wired News and Reddit.
14. slashdot.org
In the beginning there was no Slashdot. Bored and confused geeks would scribble “First Post” in the sand. Grits were strictly for consumption and there wasn’t a place to get nerd oriented news. Then in September of 97 Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda changed all that. With the help of Jeff “Hemos” Bates and others, Slashdot has stumbled forward with the simple mission to provide ‘News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters’.
15. boingboing.net
A Directory of Wonderful Things
16. last.fm
Last.fm is the flagship product from the team that designed the Audioscrobbler music engine. More than ten million times a day, Last.fm users “scrobble” their tracks to our servers, helping to collectively build the world’s largest social music platform.
17. fark.com
The first thing you should know is that Fark.com isn’t a Weblog. Fark.com, the Web site, is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site. Every day Fark receives 2,000 or so news submissions from its readership.
18. nowpublic.com
NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In twelve short months, the company has become one of the fastest growing news organizations with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic had more reporters in the affected area than most news organizations have on their entire staff.
19. stumbleupon.com
StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 4,493,158 other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like () automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.
20. metacafe.com
Metacafe is one of the world’s largest video sites, attracting more than 25 million unique viewers each month (comScore Media Metrix). We specialize in short-form original content – from new, emerging talents and established Hollywood heavyweights alike. We’re committed to delivering an exceptional entertainment experience, and we do so by engaging and empowering our audience every step of the way.
21. mixx.com
Mixx is your link to the web content that really matters. There’s a lot of information out there and, let’s face it, you don’t have all day to find the good stuff (if you do, we’re totally jealous). And who knows better than you what informs you, what makes you think, what makes you laugh? So why should some faceless editor get to decide what’s important?
22. clipmarks.com
We created Clipmarks because we’re fascinated by the moments that snap people out of a day dream. Lets face it, when we read articles in newspapers, magazines, or on the web, we often drift in and out of space. But then there are those moments that smack us in the face and make us take notice. Offline, they’re the moments when you reach for a highlighter or pair of scissors. But online, what do we do when something within a web page jumps out at us? Bookmarking the whole page is not an adequate solution because it doesn’t let us shine the spotlight on the parts that matter the most to us. And copy/paste, forget about it.
23. dzone.com
- DZone is a free link-sharing community for developers
- anyone can submit new links to the incoming queue
- members vote on upcoming links to determine what gets promoted
- everyone can browse, search and comment on links
24. videosift.com
VideoSift is an online community and passionate about Web video. Members submit videos from the best video hosts from around the Net to be voted on by other Sifters with only the best being “sifted” up to the front page. VideoSift was started in February 2006. Since then, we have grown to be the best video aggregator on the Web. PC World magazine agrees.
25. mahalo.com
Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. Our search results only include great links.
26. video.aol.com
AOL Video has millions of free, high quality videos including music videos, news clips, movie trailers, viral videos, and full-length TV shows.
27. twitter.com
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
And that’s not all. More sections at the bottom of popurls page includes:
- quickie – short headlines from many more media sites – it’s Rick Dickulous!!
- voices – todays top talkers people are listening to – seth godin, guy kawasaki and more
- vlogs – video weblogs from more media sites
Below is the popurl main menu.
From left to right on the menu you’ll get:
- switch between black and white backgrounds
- switch between normal and larger fonts
- open links in a new window
- hide and show story previews
- show and hide popurlar block – puts the popurlar stuff at the top of the page
- hide and show media feeds
- switch to popmania – to show you more stuff there is to read – YIKES!!
- customize feed arrangement – a very easy way to drag bits of information around on the page for your own liking.
- switch to river view (not cool)
- open scrabook – drops down a scrapbook for you to add urls to your scrapbook
- login with openid
- search buzz box
In popurls own words:
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.
Popurls is a mad cool site and overwhelming in a very nice way. 🙂
With a very intuitive user interface you can sit on one page and read title after title on what’s happening on the web and in the world, as well as viewing photo after photo after video after video, etc., etc. The next time you sit down to watch TV, consider popurls. More informative, eye-ball popping and brain filling. 🙂 Check it out here.
Popurls rocks! It’s the first site I hit in the morning and it’s kind of addicting…lol
It’s nice to have all of my favs in one spot,and to be able to preview the stories before
reading,what a timesaver.Keep up the good work 🙂
I personally like http://www.infonary.com. They have a good interface and apt information. You can browse through topics like business, religion etc. This site also provides a search functionality 🙂
I had no idea that a cool site like this could exist. Last.fm is my favorite and now I can enjoy my favorite indie tunes while exploring what this versatile website has to offer. I’m so glad I’ve found your post.