Ramblings around blogsphere with “Stumble Upon”
Posted by youlki22 on October 21, 2007
I love surfing and reading blogs/sites on variety of topics. And my ramblings often take me to many uncommon but very interesting and useful sites. The day I joined Stumble Upon, and install their toolbar, surfing quality website was an amazing experiece.
Surfing through stumble Upon toolbar is a different experience as compared to search engines, where you only get search results. BUT at stumble upon I discovered a lot of good sites/blogs on my favourite topics, within a day or two.
More qualities of Stumble Upon:
* You just bookmark your interests, and after installing toolbar, with just a click you would be taken to quality websites, matching with your preferences.
* It is people driven technology, so that it presents only sites, which has been suggested by other like minded memberes of Stumble Upon.
* You can choose from 500 different topics.
* At the same time while browsing, you can show your like or dislike opinion for the sites and interact with other stumblers.
What is Stumble Upon?
Wikipediasays:
StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. These webpages are typically presented when the user — known within the community as a Stumbler — clicks the “Stumble!” button on the browser’s toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which new webpage to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. i.e. it is a recommendation system which uses peer and social networking principles. There is also one-click blogging built in as well. Users can rate, or choose not to rate, any webpage with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and clicking the Stumble button resembles “channel-surfing” the web“
Stumble Upon is acquired by eBay from May, 2007.
Achievements: In July 2006, StumbleUpon had 1 million users.
According to the homepage, StumbleUpon has over 3.55 million members as of October 3rd, 2007.
Comments from “The Wall Street Journal“
“Next time you want to wander the Web, forget about Googling it. Stumble it.”
And BBC World commented:
“StumbleUpon is a brilliant downloadable toolbar that beds into your browser and gives you the chance to surf through thousands of excellent pages that have been stumbled upon by other web-users“
Download toolbar: Download link
You can also list your blogs at Stumble Upon, while browsing.
You may post your stories at Stumble Upon at thislink.
My page at Stumble Upon: youlki22
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October 21, 2007 at 11:57 am
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