StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is a extension of Mozilla Firefox, also available for Internet Explorer, allowing of surfer on Internet (often in English) on Web sites added by other users of only one click. The StumbleUpon service is thus a service Web 2.0.

The added pages are taggées by three key words per anybody (optional) and an appreciation of the type “I like” or “it is not for me” (optional, but not to fall down on the page and to refine its tastes, all the interest is there).
In May 2007, eBay buys StumbleUpon for the sum of $75,000,000.

Functionalities

to seek by Tags whose relevance is sometimes and even often higher than on a traditional engine thanks to the concept applied of Folksonomie;
to choose among a good number of categories (of which “French”) those which interest us;
to spend time while stumbling ( stumbling ) only on sites included in these categories in a click;
to give its appreciation on each site in a click;
to maintain small a blog by commenting on the particularly appreciated sites;
to integrate in StumbleUpon its site preferred in order to increase its visits;
to return in liaison with a community sharing its centers of interests through the blogs and the Social network set up.

If the free version of StumbleUpon is already interesting, there exists a paying version gold which increases the functionalities.

Vidéos

December 13rd, 2006, the creators of StumbleUpon start a video service named StumbleVideo: http://video.stumbleupon.com/
But this time Ci, the extension is not obligatory: the users of StumbleVideo can even note the vidéos on the site.
Les vidéos comes in general from sites like YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, and MySpace Videos A new version of StumbleVideo for Wii left on February 12th, 2007.

Popularity

In July 2007, StumbleUpon said to have 1.000.000 of users. According to the banner page of StumbleUpon, the service counts more than 3.55 million users since October 3rd, 2007.

Malwares

Nobody has for the moment discovered of Malicious software (Spyware S, Adware S, etc) in this simple extension. According to the authors, the subscriptions gold make it possible to do without this kind of practice which they do not appreciate.

External bonds

stumbleupon.com
the StumbleUpon page corresponding to French Wikipedia
the StumbleUpon page corresponding in the search of interwiki

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