POPURLs ~ popular urls to the latest buzz

POPurls

This is just a quick FYI post on a great resource.

Like you… I only have so much time in a day — and here lately, there is not enough time in the day to get everything done that I need to - so I need to streamline a few of my daily tasks.

If I had about 4 more hours in every day — that would about fix me up.

In order to keep up with trends… whats popular… and what people are talking about, I visit quite a few social networking sites and forums - and this takes a lot of time.

A couple weeks ago I stumbled across Popurls.com — I pretty much forgot about the site.

It is now my home page.

In a glance, I can see what’s popular at 30+ social networking, video, image, news and bookmarking sites.

Popurls does not cover all the social sites on the Internet… but they cover the biggies and for the most part, the ones that matter (for what I use them for anyway).

I want to know “what are people talking about and what’s the buzz right now“?

Here’s an example of what’s popular at Digg right now;

What’s popular at del.icio.us;

Clipmarks….

How about Popular Videos at Youtube and Pictures at Flickr;

(Russ, thought that was a boys name… that’s no boy — 3AM, go to bed)

I guess the obvious question is this; “why should I even care what’s popular or what others are talking about?”

I’m not going to go into why you should care in this post — but I’ll give you an example.

I boot up my computer… open Firefox… Popurls comes up as my home page… I scan through it… visit a few sites on the lists… see what’s popular, and what others are talking about… and I now have a few ideas on what I should write about on my blog.

It’s a brain storming tool.

If one of those popular blogs happens to have an article or post in the same niche as my blog, I can leave a comment on the post (with a link back to this blog)… or better yet, mention the popular article in one my posts and receive a trackback from the article (that’s receiving a lot of buzz apparently).

If something is really buzzing and just picking up speed… I can use a little Bending the Web and Clipmarks Unleashed strategies — write a post on the same topic (if it is in my niche) and get my piece of the traffic being generated by all the interest.

Okay… that’s it.

Wanted this post to be short, so I’ll end it here - but be sure you check out Popurls.com

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