After hearing and reading so much about it the past few months I decided to sign up for StumbleUpon.com. You have no idea what it is? Let’s see what Wikipedia says about it…
StumbleUpon is a web browser plugin that allows its users to discover and rate webpages, photos, videos, and news articles. These webpages are typically presented when the user — known within the community as a Stumbler — clicks the “Stumble!” button on the browser’s toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which new webpage to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. i.e. it is a recommendation system which uses peer and social networking principles. […]
For me this has become one of the most fun tools lately and I discovered quite a few interesting websites by just stumbling upon them. Give it a try :-)
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