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I am super, dooper excited about StumbleUpon! Two thumbs up...

I met again with StumbleUpon tonight in SF.    They showed me a preview of something very cool, very simple and neat.  You'll see it next week. Needless to say, I think it's something that shows the power of personalization and rich media in a slick interface.  That's all I can say on it. Until next week. You'll see... next week.

I'm a big fan of this company and product.   If you haven't tried it, go to stumbleupon.com, sign up. Add me as a friend  - williammorris - too.

Why do I like it? Well:

- Discovery of new sites and content is so good. I have found lots of unique sites using this product... many that I just would not find with Google.  Try it. Search for something on Google, then try the same on Stumble. You'll see what I mean.

- Sharing sites is easy....  it has a nice share feature in the toolbar... simple again, but very good. 

- Rich "Long Tail" content. This company has the long on long tail. It has subjects from needlework to hedgehogs to cats to photography.   It has deep taxonomy of ratings on a wide range of this content.

- Simple "thumbs up" "thumbs down" to recommend. So simple, no wonder it's #1! 

- And finally - it has a deep community.   People spend hours talking to each other, or on the forums... I have seen some rich blogs, full of content on this site   I really am impressed by the dedication of this community.

In short, it's a great product.   Check it out, and spread the news if you agree.

(And no, I do not own any stock in this!)

Comments

Anonymous said…
Umm.  I can't figure out how to get it to work.

The stumbleupon page has a big "sign up now" button which takes me to a Firefox extensions install page.  I install the extension.

Now what?

If I go back to stumbleupon.com, it just shows me the big "sign up now" button again.

I can't find anything in the Firefox chrome.

What's going on?  How *should* it work?

December 8, 2006 at 3:10 PM
Anonymous said…
it should install a toolbar in firefox.. it will say "Start Stumbling...".      

Is it not there at all?
December 8, 2006 at 4:40 PM
Anonymous said…
I fixed it by restarting Firefox.

I found a clue by searching on their site for "firefox install problem" or some such.

I'm not sure if this is always the case, or some glitch I ran into for some reason.

They need a bit more guidance on their site's "install" page.  If you hadn't recommended it, I just would have uninstalled it and got on with my life.

Haven't really tried it out, yet.  Too busy.
December 13, 2006 at 6:39 PM
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