Tag: STUMBLEUPON

Once upon a time, before Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and the relaunched Netscape, there was Slashdot. The original social news site for geeks allowed users to submit and share interesting articles with their peers back when Web 2.0 wasn't even a twinkle in anyone's eye. While there's still an active community of Slashdot readers/commentors/submittors, the site's not resting on its laurels. This ...

Click To Play Fichey is a new web discovery service. But unlike digg, reddit, Fichey doesn't let you submit and share web sites with other users. Rather, it lets you find popular stories from digg, reddit, StumbleUpon and other sites. What Fichey provides is a simple Flash-based tool for flipping through web pages. You won't actually be taken to those pages, you remain on Fichey's ...

Normally when we write something like "Facebook hopes to be the next Google," we mean that metaphorically. But in the case of Streakr, we're not kidding. The only way it could become more like Stumbleupon would be to change its name to StumbleUpon. Oh yeah, and to develop a larger user base. Streakr has a familiar concept. Install a browser toolbar and give a thumbs up to pages you like and ...

It's fairly inarguable that Firefox needs to exist. Going back just a few years ago to when Mozilla introduced what would quickly become their flagship browser, much of the internet was in the equivalent of the digital dark ages. Netscape was struggling along after Internet Explorer had successfully derailed its efforts years ago, but even IE was suffering from a stagnating development process and ...

Looks like the rumors were true. Auction site eBay is shelling out $75 million to buy social web discovery service StumbleUpon. According to the press release, the acquisition gives eBay exposure to StumbleUpon's growing community of over 2 million users. Still seems like an awkward match to us. In recent years, eBay purchased PayPal, but that was a no-brainer, and Skype, which has an obvious ...

A few weeks ago we told you that eBay was in talks to buy StumbleUpon. And then nothing happened for a while. Well, stuff happened, but the biggest announcement involving eBay was probably the new Firefox Companion for eBay. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that the talks are on, and that auction company could be prepared to shell out $75 million for the social web discovery service. There's no ...

How often have you been using the StumbleUpon toolbar to find random sites on the internet when you stopped and said to yourself, wouldn't it be great if I could specify that I want to find random government web sites, or perhaps PBS pages? Umm yeah. Well, meeting a demand that may not have existed, StumbleUpon has launched a new feature called StumbleThru. Basically, you can go to the StumbleThru ...

LeapTag is a new way to discover all of the content you are interested in. Its way to read RSS feeds that enables users to locate news, blogs, books and other sources of material that match personal interests. However, it is not an RSS feed reader. Users can sign up and download a browser toolbar. Through this toolbar you subscribe to tags and topics. LeapTag then scowers the web and finds links ...

Well, now that it looks like StumbleUpon is worth something (possibly $40-45 million somethings), it should come as no surprise that Google wants in on the action. That said, it's probably sheer coincidence that Google launched a recommendations button for Google Toolbar on the same day that news breaks that eBay is positioned to purchase StumbleUpon. While both Google and StumbleUpon provide you ...

StumbleUpon has been rumored to be on the market for the last half year or so, and now TechCrunch is reporting eBay may have agreed to purchase the social bookmark/website discovery startup for $40-45 million. StumbleUpon is a rapidly growing service with more than 2 million users already. According to TechCrunch, Google, eBay, and AOL had all expressed interest in buying StumbleUpon. The company ...

StumbleUpon is a great way of discovering new sites that are out there on the web. I don't use it as often as I should, unfortunately, but I can see that changing with the recent innovations coming out of their fine web establishment. Basically how StumbleUpon works is that visitors to a site rank it by giving the content a thumbs up or down. When you stumble, you will only see pages that your ...

Way back when they published books about good Web sites, we Internet pioneers who were around when it was decided that an "@" symbol should separate the username from the TLD used to have a line of yellow sticky notes on our monitors to note the entire URL for Yahoo when it was at Stanford and required our paying fealty to a Sumo wrestler. Surfing, a quaint but archaic term, was how we found Web ...

StumbleUpon is one of the old dogs of the social bookmarking biz, but apparently it can be taught a new trick or two. StumbleVideo is a new section of the site clearly aimed at people who are bored and want something neat to watch. And it works pretty well. It aggregates bookmarked videos from the usual suspects--YouTube, Google Video, etc.--and shuffles them for you, so you can watch one video ...

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). ...