Faves: What Actually Happens When You Hit Those StumbleUpon Buttons

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loyalis - Aug 16 2008 | stumbleupon, venture capital, reccomendation
Quoted: StumbleUpon is all about site discovery. I used to click on the Stumble! button and figured it would return me ...
mohit - Aug 08 2008 | stumbleupon, social discovery, technology, web 2.0
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.
makingmoney257 - Aug 06 2008 | StumbleUpon, Buttons, Happens
Have you ever wondered what is going on in the backend when you click on that tempting little blue and green StumbleUpon button in your toolbar? Chief architect and co-founder Garrett Camp lets on to the SU algorithm and hints at a couple of upcoming changes.

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