Oct 18, 2008 09:07 PM
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Stumble upon is surely a gold mine for those who have ample time to spend over net. Get hooked to it.
As the name suggests this is a web tool with which you would stumble upon those sites which normally you wont visit searching the net. StumbleUpon is a website and content discovery service enabled via a browser tool bar. With a easily embedded tool bar in Firefox you could easily spend hours browsing through very interesting websites. When users stumble, they will only see pages which friends and like-minded stumblers have recommended.
Stumble upon one of the best available internet tool which is seen as a great way too waste time over the net, or a great way to find websited that one would never would have found using traditional means.
Stumbleupon toolbar provides a button on clicking which a new site is opened within one of the category that you have already mentioned in your profile while creating an account. The stumble tool has options that states "I like it!" and and a thumbs down. It also mentions which user actually suggested this site.
Using the stumble upon tool I have come across a wide variety of websites which I would never have visited without the help of stumble upon.
As per Crunchbase ( A free database of technology companies, people and inverstors) :
People who are passionate about StumbleUpon say they like it because of the surprize factor in what they see next, and the fact that the product has such a high hit rate in delivering interesting new content. The stumble upon site says that they have nearly 5.5 million users as of July, 2008, up from 1.7 million in December 2006. Over 10 million personalized recommendations ("Stumbles") are delivered daily.
StumbleUpon was acquired by Ebay in May 2007, and continues to operate as an independent subsidiary based in San Francisco.
Make sure you visit this once and I bet you would get hooked up to it ever. https://stumbleupon.com.
