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While doing some poking around the traffic stats here I stumbled upon a domain I had not heard of but sounded interesting. It was StumbleUpon.com so I went over to check out what the site is.
What StumbleUpon is, is an interesting new way of "stumbling upon" new sites. Once you register for free you can download a tool bar for Internet Explorer (they also have a FireFox extension available). Using the tool bar you give sites "Thumbs Up" or "Thumbs Down" ratings which the system uses to match up sites from people who has the same ratings of sites.
You can view a demo at the site. Check out screen shots after the jump.
These are selected parts of a few of the screen shots available from the screen shots page at StumbleUpon.com so go there to check out even more shots. You can also click these previews to see the full shots.
The tool bar in use.
The extension listing.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsRussell HeimlichAug 22nd 2006 12:29PM
This is like channel surfing for the web. It's been around for a good while.
Yuri WalkiwAug 22nd 2006 12:30PM
I discovered Stumble-Upon through the Mozilla add-ons page. At first it was pretty neat, but then sites I didn't ant to see started popping up. One of the interests I checked was sports,so S-U took me to nhl.com and mlb.com. These sites are so obvious that they don't belong on stumble upon.
TomAug 22nd 2006 12:35PM
Whoa! Is it 2001 again?
AlexAug 29th 2006 9:11PM
I think I would rather just google search for what I want. I think people are running out of ideas.
SamanthaAug 22nd 2006 1:13PM
Oh my goodness, I've been using StumbleUpon for ages! Lately I've not had time but when I did I discovered sites I didn't even know existed. You don't believe me, check out my bookmarks sometime, which is why I'm glad I found FURL.
KegartAug 22nd 2006 1:16PM
Stumbleupon was great, however, when I was using it I found there were limits to it's database size. Alas. Del.icio.us was up and coming at the time, so I jumped ship.
Chris KringleAug 22nd 2006 2:27PM
Stumbleupon is great for lazy people who want to blog sites they find or a quick way to bookmark for later. If you like stumbleupon you might like bluedot.us
JustinAug 22nd 2006 3:46PM
I use it when I am bored off my ass, I've found some interesting sites using it thats for sure.
nerdsAug 22nd 2006 3:58PM
Definitely a very cool service for when you're bored at work. It is unfortunately becoming a favorite tool of the SEO-spammers to abuse, but SU is doing some pretty ok filtering i think.
DavidAug 22nd 2006 4:56PM
Mike- You might want to check out the Compete Toolbar http://toolbar.compete.com if you're looking for traffic stats.
WeldoAug 22nd 2006 6:34PM
SU used to be a great service but with recent updates they've made it harder to report sites in wrong categories and the like and a total lack of support. A goodly portion of what I see on it now is SEO Spammers and links to trojan-horses. It's gotten so bad that I haven't used it in several weeks and will probably just remove it from Firefox soon.
Rest in Peace SU.
JasAug 22nd 2006 11:09PM
Wake up dudes..!! This is way oooooolllldd info.. SU's been there for months now..!! LoL..!!