Musings on personal and enterprise technology (of potential interest to professional technoids and others)

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

A Way to Find Your Corner of the Internet Sky - New York Times

An update on 1 of the major social bookmarking sites (which was purchased by eBay earlier this year):

A Way to Find Your Corner of the Internet Sky - New York Times: "...A Web service called StumbleUpon has spent the last six years trying to satisfy such a need, perfecting a formula to help you discover content you are likely to find interesting. You tell the service about your professional interests or your hobbies, and it serves up sites to match them. As you “stumble” from site to site, you will feel as if you are channel-surfing the Internet, or rather, a corner of the Internet that is most relevant to you. Web discovery, or search without a query, is still a niche activity, but StumbleUpon’s growth to 3.5 million registered users from 600,000 two years ago suggests it is on a path to becoming more mainstream...."

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