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.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-22-2006 @ 12:29PM
Russell Heimlich said...
This is like channel surfing for the web. It's been around for a good while.
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8-22-2006 @ 12:30PM
Yuri Walkiw said...
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.
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8-22-2006 @ 12:35PM
Tom said...
Whoa! Is it 2001 again?
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8-22-2006 @ 1:13PM
Samantha said...
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.
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8-22-2006 @ 1:16PM
Kegart said...
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.
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8-22-2006 @ 2:27PM
Chris Kringle said...
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
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8-22-2006 @ 3:46PM
Justin said...
I use it when I am bored off my ass, I've found some interesting sites using it thats for sure.
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8-22-2006 @ 3:58PM
nerds said...
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.
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8-22-2006 @ 4:56PM
David said...
Mike- You might want to check out the Compete Toolbar http://toolbar.compete.com if you're looking for traffic stats.
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8-22-2006 @ 6:34PM
Weldo said...
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.
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8-22-2006 @ 11:09PM
Jas said...
Wake up dudes..!! This is way oooooolllldd info.. SU's been there for months now..!! LoL..!!
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8-29-2006 @ 9:11PM
Alex said...
I think I would rather just google search for what I want. I think people are running out of ideas.
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