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Stumbleupon picks up the pace

news.com.com — The application now has 1 million registered users from Mozilla Firefox, and next week, Stumbleupon will unveil a public version for Microsoft's Internet Explorer. All this comes months after receiving millions in venture capital.

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  • twyford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21No, all this comes after good hard work and a great product.
    • cyanidenfs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27+digg for anything related to stumbleupon...
      it has helped me waste a lot of my time :D
    • flyinglikeakite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Its a fantastic product. I wish they supported opera too. It is possible to support opera via widgets.
    • RADicalSatDude, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Indeed supporting Opera will only help everyone increase their market share
    • flyinglikeakite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6it definitely would. Because a its market share may be 2%, but that itself amounts to a few million people.
    • tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6StumbleUpon is like a drug. That little button is always there... calling me to click it and waste all my time. I rarely say no to its temptations.
  • mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7How are they going to make money? Add advertisments on the top of the webpage?
    • InternetUser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8By the way it works, I imagine the stumble buttons will redirect you to associated product pages.

      I can see why they received the investment.
    • ybisme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16every 20th or so page u stumble upon is a sponsors website, but usually since they are so well targeted ( the point of the software is to know your browsing habits + preferences) you hardly notice.
    • duniyadnd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18You get sent to advertisers pages after a random number of Stumbles. You won't notice it as often as the advertisers are usually geared towards your interest, but i've had instances where the advertisers had nothing to do with specific categories I'm searching.
      - bah.. finished typing and saw ybisme's comment.. same as the above.. Good speed ybisme! You are now Jedi Typing master
  • reefinyateef, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15This makes me happy. I've been using the Firefox plugin for about a month now and it is the ultimate timewaster.
    • Nightfall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I agree. I downloaded stubleupon simply by chance and it has become such a timewaster for me as well. I have found more interesting things to read about or play since I got the plugin. A plugin for IE is long overdue.
  • meetaswin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6STUMBLE UPON - By far the BEST and USEFUL TIME KILLER. right up there with DIGG too ;-)
    • TEMM, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Porn will always be the best and most useful time killer with Digg coming in a close second.
    • ridgelawrence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@temm

      StumbleUpon has porn, you can stumble to porn
    • randeepsamra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1you forgot youtube
  • hansamurai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I used to use Stumbleupon and loved it, but after about 10-15 sites, my browser would start to crawl from all the Flash and Javascript it just experienced.
  • r00t3d0ut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Stumbleupon is defintely one of the best services I've come across. I hope they're very successful
  • patmfitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Registered users" is a bit misleading, for example I registered to try it out but then abandoned it (good service but I don't really need to waste more time). However, I do notice a lot of stumbleupon referalls to my web sites, so they are definitely doing something right.
  • tanveer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I agree w/ all of you who said good things about SU. This really is a great product with even polisher look. I'd been using SU ever since I learned about it almost by an accident more than a year ago.

    Not to mention, StumbleUpon's menu bar is the only 'add-on' that goes perfectly well w/ the look for Firefox. I think they were meant to be together =)
  • hosiah, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Stumble-Upon rocks! Thanks to them, I have an archived heirarchy of bookmarks of sites I found through SU, and I can search the bookmarks through Firefox's bookmark manager and pull up relevent topic information.

    I'm glad I got to use it while it lasted, because the link quality will head straight for the toilet once it gets IE users. And Diggs be damned, it's the honest truth. I give it til September.
    • yokat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I hope you'll be proven wrong, I don't wanna stumble upon a MySpace page. God forbid.
    • hosiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"a MySpace page. God forbid."

      Oh, don't worry. It won't be a MySpace page *every* time. Sometimes it'll be an Angelfire site, or a Geocities page, or a Delphiforum or Yahoogroup, or Ten Reasons Why You Might Be A Redneck circa 1985, or a Goatse picture...

      You know how many times I've had to delete email from Windows users forwarding me a link to the dancing hamster's site with the message "***OMG!*** +-+LOL!+-+ Gotta see this!!!" ? So many times, that my mouse cursor wore a dent in my computer screen right where the delete button was, that's how many.
    • 3vi1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's one of the many stumble sites that makes me aspire to also reach.. umm.. potential

      http://www.danielsimon.net/artdata/drawings/drawingselector.html
  • ahite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I hope they come out with a Safari version eventually :::crosses fingers::
  • mutant, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1If I was an investor, and found out my money was pissed away into a MSIE technology, I'd sue.

    *****...........lame.........
  • unobserved, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've had StumbleUpon on IE for over a year now. How are they just releasing a public version of it?
  • yukevster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1ok, I know all you guys love 'stumbleupon' so much, and it's really cool and everything, but for many of us the question we want to ask is..............WHAT THE ***** IS IT!!
  • dbarefoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was shocked to learn that, over the past two months, the most visitors to my little satire site icryptex.com came from StumbleUpon, despite it appearing on several big Apple-related blogs. It's a sleeping giant.
  • ridgelawrence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Bad thing is, Cant get IE on mac and firefox takes up to much ram for mac. wheres the safari edition
  • Web_Weasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love StumbleUpon but letting in IE users? Does that mean more spyware ridden stumbles?

    If you can't figure out why and how to dump IE I don't want you recommending sites to me.
  • tongsondub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where is the Opera Version????
  • thedirtydirty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't wait for the IE plugin - the SU community is going to be huge! And I don't think the quality will go down, I actually think the number of great sites you find will go up. The beauty of SU is that as long as you tell it what you like, and what you don't like - you should keep seeing cool stuff. And it can only get better with more and more people looking for and finding cool stuff. That's my hope anyway. Of course, if quality does go down....I wonder if they'll add an option to block certain domains...like myspace.
    • hosiah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, short of writing SU a protest letter asking them *not* to port it to IE, I'm hoping the option to block certain user's recommendations by platform/browser/demographic.

      Or maybe a test:
      Q. Have you ever emailed anyone a link to the "winking Jesus" webpage?
      A. ()no ()yes -5 points
      Qa. When it was already emailed to you?
      A. ()no ()yes -10 points
      Qb. Did you also forward it to everyone in your address book?
      A. ()no ()yes -20 points
      Qc. Did you describe the effect of the .gif animation as a "miracle" and feel personally touched by the savior as a result?
      A. ()no ()yes -40 points

      Score: -75 Sorry, you do not qualify to recommend sites to StumbleUpon.
  • erinoia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0SU has been available for IE users since 2003 when I joined.And I think before that as IE users were stumbling in 2002.
    In fact until 2005 I didn't even know what Mozilla was, and that it was a plug in available for it.
    All IE toolbars have been in beta until this release.
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