StumbleUpon Attempts to Redefine Itself as Sort of Like Google, but Similar to Twitter
StumbleUpon Attempts to Redefine Itself as Sort of Like Google, but Similar to Twitter
Posted 10/08/2009 at 4:14pm
| by Jason Barry
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StumbleUpon is swinging open the doors to some new features today that they hope begin to change its offerings as a web service. Founder Garrett Camp said the new approach lands itself “somewhere between a Twitter and Google.”
StumbleUpon’s prior services gave users the ability to bookmark, share, and randomly peruse the best of the interwebs. They are building on that service by indexing all the pages deemed worthy of the StumbleUpon community and making them searchable and sort-able. Further, they introduced a “Discover” tab that acts like a news feed, to keep you up to date on your friends’ stumbles and bookmarks.
“It is halfway between search and discovery. It is not as comprehensive as Google and not as real-time as Twitter,” says Camp.
What do you think of StumbleUpon’s new offerings?
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chocobo
October 09, 2009 at 5:36am
I think this concept could have been a huge success... about 10 years ago. There are so many ways to send links or photos to your friends now (IM, Facebook) and so many ways to find the best sites of the day (Digg, Fark) and best videos (Youtube, Metacafe).
At least they were trying to come up with a fresh idea but it will never take off, especially with that awkward name.
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