Stumbleupon Makes the Internet Fun!

Stumbleupon.com. 

Stumbleupon is NOT a search engine.

Stumbleupon is NOT social media

Stumbleupon is NOT about productivity

Stumbleupon IS a recommendation engine

Stumbleupon is like having your own personal internet-addicted geek that knows you and recommends new site for you to check out.  Nay, the geek DARES you to check out the new sites.  Stumbleupon is like Google’s I Feel Lucky button on steroids. 

Simply choose your interests.  Travel?  Science and Technology?  Humor?  Internet? Books?  Bizarre/oddities, etc.  Then start stumbling.  Stumbleupon will then pull up a web site that it thinks you may like depending upon the boxes you have selected.  A toolbar will affix itself on the top of the web site.  If you like the site, click the toolbar button Like it.  You can also share this site via Facebook or Twitter.  Once you have enjoyed the site enough, click the magical Stumble button for your next site for your perusal. If you don’t like the site, just stumble onto the next one. 

Stumbleupon is a wonderful way to spend a few hours roaming the internet finding sites you would never find otherwise. 

 If you create a login for Stumbleupon, you can save all your favorite sites and Stumbleupon will remember the topics that you are interested in. 

For example, I selected the topics of Bizarre/Oddities and Internet.  I select Stumble and my browser closes its eyes, spins around and opens an article on The 50 most interesting posts on Wikipedia.  I rate it¢â‚¬â€Thumbs up or not¢â‚¬â€and stumble on to a list of the top ten most annoying alarm clocks.  On and on it goes. 

 If you are so inclined, you can also search your favorites, a friend’s favorites, or the entire site for a specific topic. 

 If you are a Firefox user, check out the Stumbleupon plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138  which brings the Stumbleupon toolbar to your browsers so you can quickly stumble around the internet giving sites your thumbs up or thumbs down right from your browser.

 There is something intrinsically addictive about this site.  It’s simple to use and is guaranteed to take you to web sites you have never seen before.  I highly recommend this site if you have time to fill, or if you are always looking for new and interesting information.  You will not be disappointed.