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Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

Murty BVNS — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:42:53 -0000

Very good introduction to Stumbleupon recommendation engine. Stumbleupon homepage has this content about their technology very few people read because it is hid in tabs without a direct page. To many who are using Stumbleupon it could be a revelation. This made Stumbleupon much preferable to use as a default search than Google, the relevancy and quality.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

SolReka — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:52:46 -0000

ebay own stumble. Now that I did not know. tut tut :-)

I still have no idea how to make best us of Stumble. I stumble sites, review them and click whether I like it or not. This is all I do.

Am I missing a trick of the trade here?

What are the best methods and practices for using StumbleUpon?

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

Christopher Hire — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:10:37 -0000

Excellent explanation of StumbleUpon. Concise, Clear. Well done, MG.

Christopher

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

slippylane — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:00:57 -0000

Fascinating. I guess I should give SU more than the occasional bored click to get more out of it.

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carolyn — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:30:29 -0000

this looks a lot simpler

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sheilaludlowusa10@yahoo.com — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:11:03 -0000

I cannot get stumble upon videos to play. It lets me log in but when I click on a video it goes to the black screen only.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

net working — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:30:57 -0000

Yes, stumble has really evolved since the early days of randomly showing crap. I really like how they've found a way to weed out the weak advertisements people do for their e-com websites. social bookmarking != SEO work ... thanks SU for keeping it separate again.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

Franklin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:39:33 -0000

This is really interesting stuff. It is amazing how far stumbleupon has came.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

David — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:59:03 -0000

Stumble Upon is great, they just need some way to sort your stumbles, as well as a good search feature that allows you to search your stumbles. Once you stumble something it tends to be lost and gone forever (if you stumble a lot at least)

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

constantskeptic — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:57:48 -0000

I love stumble upon. I use it every day. One of the best ways to discover great content.

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localsheriff — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:06:03 -0000

Aha! Who knew? Interesting, thank you!

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Internet TV — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:38:14 -0000

I'm quite sure there's a purple Dragon in there somewhere.

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Vacation Rentals By Owner — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:12:51 -0000

Stumble rocks. You can get a huge amount of traffic from this site with hardly any work.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

christie — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:42:49 -0000

Terrific article! Your piece allows “understanding with ease” for us who are less cyber savvy. Thank you for the clarification on StumbleUpon.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

MG Siegler — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:16:26 -0000

Duplicates is something else we talked about but I didn't have room to fit in. StumbleUpon takes that very seriously and realizes what a problem it can be, they continue to work on better solutions - I'm sure you know Digg has a very similar problem as well.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

MG Siegler — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:15:02 -0000

Your welcome David, thanks for the kind words, glad to provide insight.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

MG Siegler — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:14:25 -0000

That's unfortunately a side-effect, but I'm sure at least some liked what you had to say and checked out some other pages.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

MG Siegler — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:13:41 -0000

That would be interesting to see, Digg is still very much in the "learning" process though for its system.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

MG Siegler — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:12:52 -0000

Re: voting down and writing a review, interesting thought, not sure on that one :)

As for the image, sorry about that looks like it failed to link to the larger version, I'll get that online later tonight for you.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

Pierre Henri Clouin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:22:04 -0000

Excellent write up about StumbleUpon's back-end.

While SU is a great service for content and website discovery, I am surprised that the prospective roadmap does not include an integration with eBay to browse/discover products and auctions.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

Guest — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:57:44 -0000

Nice, I hadn't thought about how Stumble actually worked before. The web based version looks interesting, and I'm glad they plan to increase the freind limit.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

John McCollum — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:39:00 -0000

You'd think with all that complex stuff going on, they'd check before sending you ten duplicates of the same content! :)

Thanks for the article - I didn't know they were developing a web only version, or increasing the number of friends you could have. Looking forward to more developments from SU.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

David Dunn — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:30:44 -0000

Thank you very much for this post - was probably the best blog post I've read in a while :-)

I knew the basics of what went into the toolbar recommending me a website but I didn't know to this extent what happened.

I found your blog post during my 'Random Stumble', the blog post and more comments about your post can be found on my blog here: http://ferraridave.com/rand...

Thanks again :-)

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:50:30 -0000

I've often wondered about the effect of not voting on something explicitly. It seemed to me that such behavior should be considered as a negative rather than a positive factor and it sounds like the SU folks share my thinking. Now if you down vote something AND write a review, do you suppose that's a stronger negative signal than just down voting?

By the way, it looks like your blog theme is scaling the SU image making it hard to read.

Re: There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness

Engago team — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:36:35 -0000

We got StumbledUpon twice and that resulted in many website hits, the number of visits more than doubled on those days.
Sadly most of these visitors, just visited one page.