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Stumble Upon StumbleUpon.com
by Mike Hamilton Aug 22nd 2006 at 12:10PM
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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Russell Heimlich said 12:29PM on 8-22-2006
This is like channel surfing for the web. It's been around for a good while.
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Yuri Walkiw said 12:30PM on 8-22-2006
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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Tom said 12:35PM on 8-22-2006
Whoa! Is it 2001 again?
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Alex said 9:11PM on 8-29-2006
I think I would rather just google search for what I want. I think people are running out of ideas.
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Samantha said 1:13PM on 8-22-2006
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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Kegart said 1:16PM on 8-22-2006
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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Chris Kringle said 2:27PM on 8-22-2006
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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Justin said 3:46PM on 8-22-2006
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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nerds said 3:58PM on 8-22-2006
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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David said 4:56PM on 8-22-2006
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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Weldo said 6:34PM on 8-22-2006
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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Jas said 11:09PM on 8-22-2006
Wake up dudes..!! This is way oooooolllldd info.. SU's been there for months now..!! LoL..!!
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