StumbleUpon is the ultimate tool for web surfers. You add the toolbar to your web browser and whenever you’re bored, you can just click the button and land on a random website. It’s actually pretty ingenious, and I hope the developers are making a ton of money. You can, of course, customize your stumbling so that you only land on sites relevant to certain topics (like sports or business or cooking).
But the real draw to StumbleUpon for bloggers is that you can submit your own site’s posts. There’s no guarantee that you’ll become popular, but when you do, you’ll see …read more

A couple years ago, StumbleUpon was sold to EBay for $75 million. Today, the original founders of StumbleUpon have purchased the website back from EBay for an undisclosed amount of money.
Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith are the two original founders of StumbleUpon. Those two founders got help buying back the website from other investors including Accel Partners, August Capital and Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures.
When EBay purchased StumbleUpon, there were less than three million users. Currently, the most recent estimate has StumbleUpon with approximately 7.5 million users.
The StumbleUpon service is a recommendation service in which users recommend websites to other …read more

StumbleUpon.com is both a tremendous time sink and an interesting resource. I’m cooking up some bacon for both breakfast and a spinach salad and between flipping rashers, I clicked my StumbleUpon toolbar thingie a few times… and got this:
Newseum.org which has at least the front page from over 500 newspapers in 54 countries! You can sort by country or by region. You get the front page and, if available, a link to the paper’s website. There’s also an analysis section that can be interesting.
Turns out this will turn into a physical museum in Washington DC sometime this year, which would …read more