Buzz
I often come up with a lot of wacky and crazy stuff that i’ve found around the web. Just take a look at my Best of the Web page. Granted, it’s not been that updated recently, but you have to understand that I’ve been busy with EverQuest and the Sons of Sam Horn.
Well, maybe not.. but I did happen to find a great site that puts all of the Internet buzz at your fingertips. From the best of Flickr, Digg, Del.icio.us, and even YouTube. While you can subscribe to any one of these site’s feeds using RSS, you can now get it all at one place called PopUrls.com.
PopUrls.com considers itself to be the “popular urls to the buzz of the web.” There’s a ton of “web talk” going on out there in the Blogosphere every day that a lot of the world misses out on. For instance, right now one of the most hotly debated topic is Nintendo’s announcement of it’s new gaming system which will be called “Wii” (pronounced “We”). The project previously known as Revolution, has been renamed in expectation for its launch later this year.
The buzz factor around it, is the fact that the name is absolutely terrible. And there’s actually quite a bit of speculation going around thinking that perhaps Nintendo announced this name as a practical joke to try to stir the Internet community into a more speculation and buzz around its new product. Regardless, it seems to have worked.
While this particular example is fairly geeky/gamerish in nature, there’s things that become “the talk of the town” for a few days — that you can’t find anywhere else except on the web. It takes some time to figure out how RSS is going to work for you, but in the meantime, play around with PopUrls, and begin to explore the randomness that ensues.
