StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that finds and recommends web
content to its users. It features allow users to discover and rate
Web pages, photos, and videos that are personalized to their tastes
and interests using peer-sourcing and social networking principles.
definition from Wikipedia.org Unique because it is the future of
the web. Information coming to you Web 2.0 is going towards Web 3.0
What is StumbleUpon?
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Founded in November 2001 by Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin
LaFrance, and Eric Boyd in Calgary, Canada. Then moved to San
Francisco in 2005 Was sold to Ebay in May 2007 for $75 million and
later bought back by Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, and few others
investors buy it back. April 2010: the company hit 1 billion
stumbles per month June 2010: reaches its 10,000,000 th members
January 2011: the company surpassed Facebook as top source for
Social Media traffic February 2011: broke its mobile usage record
during the Super Bowl July 2011: Reached 44 million stumbles in a
single day August 2011: Hit the 25 billionth click History
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Go to www.stumbleupon.comwww.stumbleupon.com Create account
logging in with Facebook means you can share your finds on your
Facebook wall, but that option can also be turned off Then set up
your interests: choose what kind of sites/articles will show up
every time you click the stumble button on your toolbar. You can
always go back into your profile and change your interests. How To
Start Stumbling
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Install the toolbar Stumble: Click the stumble button on your
toolbar. This will load a random page that StumbleUpon pulls from
their files based on the interests you gave them at the beginning.
If you like the page/article it brings up, click I like it! If,
however, it is a site you find disgusting, click thumbs down. You
can change your interest or stumble only one interest (like
photography) by clicking the all button next to stumble and
changing your preferences there. How To Start Stumbling
