StumbleUpon
So here is my first, and probably not last, rant on stumbling.. it is the greatest innovation the web has seen since Netscape Navigator. You can easily send links between friends..
well let me start by just explaining the concept. When you stumble, you just click a button and you get a site, either sent by a friend or by the community. First you get a toolbar (not required, but recommended) and you click the stumble button. The sites that you stumble upon are chosen by your preferred categories. You might wonder, what do they get out of it? well.. they do put a few sponsored stumbles in the mix, but again, they are only ones within your chosen categories, so its really not bad.. and best of all, you can just stumble right past them with one click!
So back to why I like it, you can share to friends with one click, even non-members by email, along with being able to save links very quickly by giving your thumbs up to a page (again, one click). If you browse the web like I do, you want a way to get sites without thinking, but with content... and the StumbleUpon community delivers, I have yet to get a bad site, or anything not worth my time. You can do as much, or as little with it as you want, and another really nice thing is you don't have to give out any information besides email (no spam of course) so it takes less than 5 seconds to start using it. Of course, you can check out my stumble page if you are curious.
I Strongly recommend becoming a member and using the toolbar, its just so easy, and is great for spontaneous browsing, its so easy even my mom uses it!
Have a nice stumble @ StumbleUpon
P.S. if you do join, add me as a friend and we can share links.
well let me start by just explaining the concept. When you stumble, you just click a button and you get a site, either sent by a friend or by the community. First you get a toolbar (not required, but recommended) and you click the stumble button. The sites that you stumble upon are chosen by your preferred categories. You might wonder, what do they get out of it? well.. they do put a few sponsored stumbles in the mix, but again, they are only ones within your chosen categories, so its really not bad.. and best of all, you can just stumble right past them with one click!
So back to why I like it, you can share to friends with one click, even non-members by email, along with being able to save links very quickly by giving your thumbs up to a page (again, one click). If you browse the web like I do, you want a way to get sites without thinking, but with content... and the StumbleUpon community delivers, I have yet to get a bad site, or anything not worth my time. You can do as much, or as little with it as you want, and another really nice thing is you don't have to give out any information besides email (no spam of course) so it takes less than 5 seconds to start using it. Of course, you can check out my stumble page if you are curious.
I Strongly recommend becoming a member and using the toolbar, its just so easy, and is great for spontaneous browsing, its so easy even my mom uses it!
Have a nice stumble @ StumbleUpon
P.S. if you do join, add me as a friend and we can share links.
posted by Colin at 9:49:00 PM
8 Comments:
I'm not convinced.. If I wanted random pages, I would use "I'm feeling lucky" more often in Google.
But you are missing the main point, I'm feeling lucky will send you to sites that have no person reviewing them, but stumbling, you get the whole community reviewing links and therefore the results are MUCH better, and not really "random". I'm feeling lucky does not accomplish this because you have to enter a search term. That and there are a lot more crap pages in google's index than in stumbleupon, where I seem to find no garbage. There are sites you could absolutely never find by yourself that you will find by stumbling, and they are good sites I promise.
I know.. just trying to get you fired up :)
You seem to know how to do that well.
I don't know if Stumble is the "next best thing to Netscape", but it has kept me occupied for hours.
Thumbs up to stumbleupon. Thumbs down to josh luth. ;)
quote="You can do as much, or as little with it as you want..."
I vote as little.
there is no voting here, did you misinterpret this as a democracy? :P this coming from a registered user... and btw, you should check your stumbles I sent you, some pretty good stuff.
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