{"id":12,"date":"2006-07-31T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benh.org\/techie\/2006\/07\/stumbleuponcom-smarter-way-to-discover-sites\/"},"modified":"2007-06-22T13:30:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T18:30:56","slug":"stumbleuponcom-smarter-way-to-discover-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/2006\/07\/stumbleuponcom-smarter-way-to-discover-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"StumbleUpon.com, Smarter way to discover sites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don’t Search… Just Stumble!!! A new promising way to discover <\/strong>
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Thanks to StumbleUpon.com<\/a> for bringing in lot of visitors to my blog site in the recent past; which made me write this post \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"StumbleUpon\"<\/a>In recent weeks, I have been watching a steady increase in the number of referrers being sent from the site StumbleUpon. Moreover I got similar referral hits on my other site ExpertsHeaven.com<\/a>. Initially I was under the assumption that StumbleUpon is some kind of SPAM site and sucking my bandwidth (Even I was thinking to ban the site IP :(). Lucky I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do so since I really learned what StumbleUpon is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6!! Hence I though to write about StumbleUpon, so that webmasters and other can be kept informed about the traffic \ud83d\ude42 and usage as well!!<\/p>\n

According to WikiPedia,<\/p>\n

StumbleUpon is a commercial web discovery service which integrates peer and social networking principles with one-click blogging. StumbleUpon is a social book marking site that adhere Web 2.0 StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

StumbleUpon uses the ratings from the users to form collaborative opinions on website quality. When you stumble, you will only see pages which friends and like-minded stumblers have liked. Unlike search engines or static directories, this allows for a true \u00e2\u20ac\u0153democracy of the web\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all members have a say (or) as to whether a page should be passed on. These ratings connect you to more like-minded members who then show you better pages (a kind of social networking)<\/p>\n

StumbleUpon is a Canadian start-up that recently re-located to San Francisco. It was started by Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, and Justin LaFrance, who bootstrapped the company for much of its early life. You must the read the Interview with Justin LaFrance<\/a> of StumbleUpon.<\/p>\n

Just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait try out the StumbleUpon tool bar which is compatible with both IE and Firefox. Membership is free, and the database is accessed through a no-spyware tool-bar you add to your Firefox or IE browser. You take 2 minutes to join the free network, and then you tell it what your personal interests and start Stumbling!!!<\/p>\n

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Happy Stumbling!!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t Search… Just Stumble!!! A new promising way to discover Thanks to StumbleUpon.com for bringing in lot of visitors to my blog site in the recent past; which made me write this post \ud83d\ude42 In recent weeks, I have been watching a steady increase in the number of referrers being sent from the site StumbleUpon. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[203,70,178],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web20","tag-social-networking","tag-traffic","tag-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benh.org\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}