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tomo — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:15:02 -0000

jelousy,or just a mirror reaction?

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bilgi yarÄ±ÅŸmasÄ± — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:57:52 -0000

thanks.

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Sextanta — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:59:59 -0000

I've uninstalled StumbleUpon; I can't stand the unreliability. Well, over the past two days it has been reliably un-obtainable.

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gelisim — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:25:07 -0000

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sebo — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:57:59 -0000

thank you

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outtanames — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:14:59 -0000

The fact that venture capitalists think Stumble is cool is enough of a reason to run for the hills. Not to mention the obvious "framing" issues and the fact that you can't actually see the url of the sites. Stumble sucks.

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Peter — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:22:27 -0000

A really cool site to talk privately with ur best friends without the hassle of anyone peeking is Grupus.com.

whats more u can even form public groups there but which are editable only by group members.
Pretty neat, eh?

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arleas — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:28:03 -0000

With regards to the actual "Ads"... that is, sponsored stumbles, I see very very few of them... like out of 100 clicks of the stumble button, I MIGHT be directed to 1 or 2 sponsored stumbles... plus if you became a sponsor ($20 donation) you can avoid those altogether...

Of course that doesn't stop you from seeing sites that other users have submitted, and annoyingly some users see SU as a way to promote their own stuff, either by submitting their own page or in one extreme case, adding the URL to every review they did....

Idiots like that are in the minority, but SU has other problems... For one thing, if something is popular on the net, you will see it more than once, GUARANTEED... Someone will submit it, and then someone else will see the same thing on a different page and submit that.... and so on and so on.... the "Submitter" credits seem to be what some people are after.... so you will also find people who will submit damn near every page they go to... The good part is that through the thumbs up and down you weed these morons out (though not soon enough for me)

SU is great for those brief idle moments when you want to see something interesting but don't wanna spend hours looking for cool stuff... but after being on the service for more than 2 years, I'm not as thrilled by it as I used to be...

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drg — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:50:32 -0000

leandro, you can hide it (ctrl+F11)

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Leandro A. — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:52:34 -0000

It's really nice, but I don't like to install an entire toolbar in my browser, bc I just use the "I Like it" and "I don't like it".. I've removed it bc the space thing.. but its a great extension/service.

I could come back if I found another smaller extension or SU does a new lite version.

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mlw1980 — Sat, 27 May 2006 00:12:50 -0000

I Love Stumble upon,its taken me to the neatest sites.its not a surprize to me that its so popular.

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kt — Wed, 24 May 2006 14:01:25 -0000

StumbleUpon IS so addictive! And it is inspiring smilar but different tools on the web. You should check out the ranDUMBizer, it is like StumbleUpon, but has its own twist. It is based on proprietary clustering technology from the Dumbfind search engine. You can type in different sites that interest you and then search similar sites. This way you are sure to get something random but directed towards what you specifically like. It is very beta, but very cool. Check it out!
http://www.dumbfind.com/ran...

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Trevor — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:15:11 -0000

Dude... YOU are the one who submits them. That's the whole point! Use the Thumbs Up/Down thingie. Then, all the other people who like what you like get that Stumble... repeat, refine, repeat...

I've been an addict on this thing for 3 months now.

Do. Not. Start.

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joey — Thu, 18 May 2006 00:45:32 -0000

Yeah but when you are skimming through YouTube videos you don't decide to stop and watch commercials, at least knowingly...no one is weirded out by the strange way advertising is injected? Guess it's a good service....

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Ari Mir — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:46:23 -0000

officially launched? they have almost 1m users...WOW where did this freaking site come from.

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David G — Wed, 17 May 2006 11:20:00 -0000

Thanks Rutger, *that* would explain it. So much for Alexa data pre-May.

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Pete Cashmore — Wed, 17 May 2006 08:30:26 -0000

Aston,

I didn't try to imply that it's brand new - the original post that I linked to mentions 2002 as the start year. This "launch" seems to be about positioning the site alongside the other 2.0 contenders.

David,

Yep - I 've noticed the step function on multiple sites during that period. Rutger's hypothesis seems to hold.

UPDATE - StumbleUpon just updated their numbers to say that around 1/4 of users were active this week, rather than a 1/3 (see the Silicon Beat post). Still impressive by anyone's standards.

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Rutger — Wed, 17 May 2006 03:53:08 -0000

David, I think its the fact that Alexa started counting Firefox users in May... I checked other URLs that would be FF sensitive to test my hypothesis, and it seems to hold... Historically Alexa was only an IE-based gauge of traffic. Its hardly accurate as-is, but equally unfair to everyone.

I just poked around StumbleUpon, looks like FF is the 99% way that folks use the service, so, it's pretty friggin' insane that they have nearly 1m FF users "stumbling" (or whatever they do on there).

Decent piece of internet property... Kudos to Pete for bringing this to the limelight.

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Yanamandra — Wed, 17 May 2006 02:38:00 -0000

Given that they have been around for a while, I am not surprised that they have this large community of users. Looks like they hung in there for the past few years and the Web 2.0 phenomenon hapenned and they are on the map along with other social bookmarking sites.

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David G — Tue, 16 May 2006 22:14:20 -0000

Rutger - thanks for posting the graph - what do you think explains the step function in both curves in May?

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Rutger — Tue, 16 May 2006 19:16:24 -0000

Holy Hell, look at StumbleUpon in the Alexa rankings... I had no idea this thing was so big... It's not much smaller than del.icio.us/yahoo.

Weird. Just shows the web is always bigger than we think.

http://www.alexaholic.com/d...

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Paul O Mahony — Tue, 16 May 2006 17:37:53 -0000

I've always wondered why those guys don't get as much press as the other Social Bookmarking apps. I found them pretty addictive too. Is it a firefox only tool? If so, that makes the figures even more impressive.

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Aston — Tue, 16 May 2006 17:14:14 -0000

Stumbleupon isn't nearly as new as is being implied. People (namely, almost all of those users) have been using it for a really long time. Back before web 2.0 was even a meme.

Archive.org has pages (serving up info about the old Firefox plugin) from way back in 2002.