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Fubiz is a blog offering up-to-date news and reviews of product design, furniture design and graphic art.

Fubiz is a blog offering up-to-date news and reviews of product design, furniture design and graphic art.

This fast-loading and well designed site is primarily in French, but also in English, German, Italian and Spanish. Although the English translation isn't perfect, this doesn't seem to have affected its popularity in the US, where approximately one-third of viewers are from. France, Germany and the U.K also have large readerships. There is a long list here of print publications in which have reviewed Fubiz since its creation in 2005.

Formatted like a typical blog (in that there are regular posts by the authors which appear in chronological order, and are catalogued in an archive), the site has many of the usual blog features such as RSS feeds and bookmarking. Viewers are able to comment on posts (no registration is required, simply provide an email address) and each topic typically receives around 20 comments.

Although Fubiz doesn’t cover regular box-office movies, short films and animations are often featured in blog posts (click here for an example). Clips are embedded from YouTube or other video hosting sites. There is no affliate advertising, but banner ads can also be purchased through the website’s own advertsing scheme.