Comments on: StumbleUpon second wind

By: Something I stumbled upon -- Chip’s Quips

Something I stumbled upon -- Chip’s Quips — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:44:20 +0000

[…] I had looked at stumbleupon briefly after a review by TDavid, but my alert level never rose above “ho hum” (yeah, I’ve got time to shave the Yeti)until this happened. Stumbleupon is sort of a combination of del.icio.us/digg/etc. and BlogExplosion. Like the former, you submit sites that interest you and tag them. Like the latter, the sites get queued up for semi-random viewing by people who have time on their hands. I guess I underestimated the magnitude of the latter. […]

By: Make You Go Hmm: » Hmmcast #9: C-and-D stupidity, blog comment spam, serendipity

Sun, 28 May 2006 14:56:13 +0000

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By: kt

kt — Wed, 24 May 2006 18:02:10 +0000

I found what you had to say about StumbleUpon very interesting. I was wondering if you have heard about a new tool that was inspired by StumbleUpon, it is called the ranDUMBizer. It is based on proprietary clustering technology from the Dumbfind search engine. “Search” when you know just what you’re looking for, “stumble” when you don’t, and “ranDUMBize” when you sort of know what you are looking for. Try using them in tandem, when you see a site you like in StumbleUpon, click the ranDUMBize bookmarklet and it will find something else that is related. The ranDUMBize helps you find things you are looking for, but don’t know how to search for. Very beta, but often very very interesting. dumbfind.com/randumbizer/

By: iiq374

iiq374 — Tue, 23 May 2006 01:12:25 +0000

coComment is for comments, which generally happen to be on blogs…
And by surfing the commentators, topics, tags, blogs etc –> you end up with an effect much like SU IMHO.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Mon, 22 May 2006 23:21:29 +0000

iiq734 — SU is about much more than blogs. coComment is for comments, so I’m not really seeing the serendipitious surfing aspect there (?). Del.icio.us is a more fair comparison although the del.icio.us UI is not as good as SU, IMO.

By: iiq374

iiq374 — Mon, 22 May 2006 23:09:47 +0000

The problem is that SU just isn’t as useful as many other things that effectively provide the same service as well.
coComment / Del.ic.ious etc can all be used to surf random little known sites - but tend to actually give you better control (if you want it) and more importantly a better way of tracking back to those sites that you end up liking etc.
Unless SU can give something more than a random look into the Blogosphere I’d say its just going to remain an interesting paradigm that people tinker with everynow and again.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Mon, 22 May 2006 21:10:00 +0000

Well, I wouldn’t hold much stock in what Alexa says, Randy, but otherwise I agree. This time they have some VC backing and some people are treating them like they are “new” which might change a few things.

By: Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Mon, 22 May 2006 20:49:46 +0000

Check out the Alexa graphs. Very indicative.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=max&size=large&compare_sites=&y=r&url=stumbleupon.com

By: Randy Charles Morin

Randy Charles Morin — Mon, 22 May 2006 20:47:58 +0000

It’s funny how long StumbleUpon has been around. They’ve been on the verge of success for years, but can never break thru. I’ve seen it pick-up several times and then drop back off only to pick-up again.