PopUrls is a mashup

Mashup (web application hybrid)

In Web development, a mashup is a Web page or application that uses and combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services...

 of the web's most visited social news

Social news

A social news website is a type of website that features user-submitted stories that are ranked based on popularity.-Slashdot:Slashdot, started in 1997, was one of the first social news websites. It focuses mainly on science and technology related news. Users can submit stories, and the editors...

 sites and portals that encapsulates headlines of its sources in near-realtime. Introduced in March 2006 by Thomas Marban

Thomas Marban

Thomas Marban is an Austrian entrepreneur and founder of several technology startups. After incorporating one of the first web agencies in the mid-nineties, his subsequent company celum Imagine provides digital media asset management solutions for enterprise use and is among the global leaders in...

 the site created a new trend in so called Single Page Aggregators and serves as a case study for Web Syndication

Web syndication

Web syndication is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites. Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary or update of the website's recently added content...

. PopUrls was included as number five in Time Magazine's list of the top 50 websites of 2009.

PopUrls was acquired by Idealab

Idealab

Idealab is a business incubator based in Pasadena, California.-History:Idealab was founded by Bill Gross in March 1996...

 in July 2010 for an undisclosed amount.

See also

• Thomas Marban
  Thomas Marban
  Thomas Marban is an Austrian entrepreneur and founder of several technology startups. After incorporating one of the first web agencies in the mid-nineties, his subsequent company celum Imagine provides digital media asset management solutions for enterprise use and is among the global leaders in...
  
  
• Web Syndication
  Web syndication
  Web syndication is a form of syndication in which website material is made available to multiple other sites. Most commonly, web syndication refers to making web feeds available from a site in order to provide other people with a summary or update of the website's recently added content...
  
  
• Web 2.0
  Web 2.0
  The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
  
  
• Slashdot
  Slashdot
  Slashdot is a technology-related news website owned by Geeknet, Inc. The site, which bills itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters", features user-submitted and ‑evaluated current affairs news stories about science- and technology-related topics. Each story has a comments section...
  
  
• del.icio.us
  Del.icio.us
  Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, and by the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs...
  
  
• Flickr
  Flickr
  Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
  
  
• Reddit
  Reddit
  reddit is a social news website where the registered users submit content, in the form of either a link or a text "self" post. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down," which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the site's pages and front page.Reddit was originally...
  
  
• Fark
  Fark
  Fark is a community website created by Drew Curtis that allows members to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. As of June 2009, the site boasts approximately four million unique visitors per month, which puts it among the top 100 English language websites...
  
  
• Digg
  Digg
  Digg is a social news website. Prior to Digg v4, its cornerstone function consisted of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging and burying, respectively. Digg's popularity prompted the creation of copycat social networking sites with story submission and voting systems...
  
  

External links

• Interview with Thomas Marban - the founder of PopUrls
• Review on Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools blog
• Covered on CNET News blog