Stumbleupon.com

 Overview
[|Stumbleupon.com] is a personalized web-browsing tool. This website suggests a variety of websites, games, and blogs that subscribers maybe interested in viewing. Stumbleupon.com will connect users to others with shared interests by asking new participants to choose from a variety of topics and categories of interest before you begin stumbling. Also, participants can join groups with similar interests to you. Stumbleupon.com is not a search engine because it directs users to destinations based on personal preferences rather than searching for credible websites. The site integrates human feedback with computer based statistical feedback to guide your stumbling. (Check out the path the [|recommendation engine] goes through here) For each site that a user is directed towards there is an option to click the “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” button which the website uses to make your online time more appealing.

Stumbleupon.com is the procrastinator’s paradise. With each “like” of a website it becomes more tailored to your individual preferences and may make it impossible to stop. The site recognizes users their to "likers" of as their top stumblers. ([|See them here])

A Stumbler has a variety of options of how to participate with the website. They can add comments to posts of site, invite friends using stumbleupon, follow it on facbook or twitter, and participate in the blog. Perhaps the best way for users to participate is to add websites that they particularly enjoy or find interesting or simply stumble freely to pass the time.

**History**
Stumble was founded on November 1, 2001 by software designers Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith while they were in graduate school. After stumble reached 500,000 subscribers, silicon valley giants Brad O'neill and google's Ram Shriram invested in the company and moved their entire operation to San Francisco. In May of 2007, Ebay bought the website for 75 million dollars. In 2009, a group of original investors and creators bought stumble back from google.

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