Pure serendipity! I literally, stumbled upon StumbleUpon. And boy had I spend time on it!
If you use Firefox, get the plugin from Mozilla extension update and start stumbling. What a name, what an idea, what an execution. This is definitely one of my "woah!" in a long time.
I had not aimlessly surf the net for a long time. Back when "Cool site of the day" really picks cool, un-commercialised, honest sites, I used to sit in front of the terminal in the computer lab surfing all day. But as the web became more commercial, small sites are hidden under tons of irrelevant information, good sites start to require sign up, search engine just pulling up "search engine optimised" site. I lost all interest.
What joy to surf again! Click on the Stumble! button and StumbleUpon pulls out really interesting site that human had recommended. And not only that the site recommended are really relevant to me. That’s some matching algorithm. Now it would be interesting if the "I’m Feeling Lucky" button on Google is integrated with this.
Not sure if this is still one of the best kept secret to internet marketer. But imagine people start do "Stumble optimisation". Plenty of room for misuse. Already I see sites on review appearing in Google. But as the old chinese saying goes "water can carry a boat as well as capsize it" (æ°´è½è½½èï¼ä¹è½è¦è).
Multi language support would be a nice addition. I have a feeling that someone in China might already be building the same idea, in Chinese. I saw a report somewhere that the chinese language reader is almost 20% of the total internet user. This alot of people and that’s what keeping many of the sites in China up.
This looks like a killer idea. Now let see, who is inline to buy out this company. Yahoo, MSN, Google?
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