stumbleupon

The IFRAME version of StumbleUpon. By creating an in-page toolbar, users can get a taste of the full toolbar experience, without installing anything on their machine.

Some insight into how StumbleUpon works. Not too surprising.

Quoted: As you can see in the chart below, there are three key parts to the Recommendation Engine. There are pages from the topics you marked that interest you, socially endorsed pages and peer endorsed pages. Socially endorsed pages are the ones that users you have befriended on the site like, while peer endorsed pages are ones from users who have similar voting habits (giving a site the thumbs up or thumbs down) as you.

Quoted: Sleepingbeauty88, 22 years old from Alabama, USA. See the 1603 sites Sleepingbeauty88 liked and found through StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like, and brings you more. Discover your web with StumbleUpon.

Quoted: Circ-05, from California, USA. See the 782 sites Circ-05 liked and found through StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like, and brings you more. Discover your web with StumbleUpon.

Quoted: Permissive, from California, USA. See the 713 sites Permissive liked and found through StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like, and brings you more. Discover your web with StumbleUpon.

Quoted: We hear a lot about digg, Slashdot and del.icio.us as traffic drivers for media websites and blogs. But one site that doesn't get enough props in this regard is StumbleUpon. In our recent Social Bookmarking Faceoff, we noted that StumbleUpon has the largest user base with 1,271,345 users. Its main rival in the space, del.icio.us, recently announced it had reached 1 million users.

Google Toolbar's "Picks for You" button announcement. TechCrunch suggested this is a StumbleUpon killer. I don't see it:

- Not installed in Google Toolbar by default.
- I can't even find it in Google's Button Gallery! (just the install link from this blog post).

StumbleUpon nearing potential $75 million acquisition. Not bad for a simple idea with $1.5 million in financing!

Quoted: First reported here at TechCrunch on April 18, eBay is now said to be close to finalizing its deal to acquire StumbleUpon for ...