The ultimate homepage for the buzz obsessed

Today I switched my browser’s home page from Yahoo, which I’ve endured for years for lack of something better, to Popurls.com. Popurls aggregates the web’s best news, pictures, and video into a simple and elegantly designed interface. You can even customize the display and save the settings without signing up or logging in. What’s exciting is that this is the work of one developer/designer, Thomas Marban, and that the site itself is conceptually very simple, combining rss, ajax and great design to great effect to create a hugely popular service. Thomas has also embraced the idea of iterative development based on real user feedback. You can see the notes on popurls’ development and achievements over at his personal site, tom.ma. It’s fun to see how responsive Thomas is to feedback. It all feels very personal and honest; this is the way web apps are meant to be developed.