Posted on Saturday 24 September 2005 - Popularity: unranked
StumbleUpon is a Firefox Extension and web service that helps you find interesting web pages, tons of them. The Extension adds a few additional buttons to Firefox, for example in the status bar or wherever else you like them. Those additional buttons make it possible for you to discover new pages and to rate pages you’ve found. Now of course the trick is that everyone that uses this Extension rates pages he discovers so that the system has enough data to decide what the great pages are, something called “collaborative opinions” or in marketing language; a true “democracy of the web”.
By rating websites, you not only help other StumbleUpon users to discover great websites, your own results get better as well as StumbleUpon is using your own site ratings to decide what other sites you could like. Additionally you can add other stumblers with similar interests and taste to your friends list to get even better results, so this is not only a “democracy of the web”, it’s actually a real social democracy.
Personally I would like to see an additional search field (Google take care), so that you’re not limited to the pre-defined interests you can chose from, but even without one, this service is already killing my time like hardly anything else. Definitely give it a try, even if you’re not a Firefox user.
Fredi
