Ever find yourself bored and wanting something to do.. well why not stumble. Stumbleupon is a site that brings up sites from all over the web. All you have to do is go to stumbleupon.com and fill out the form that asks for interests. This insures that the sites being generated are in your field [...]

Before Web 2.0, it would cost a lot of money to drive traffic to a website. Pay-per-click programs and web banners/ads were the cutting edge and came with a significant investment. Web 2.0, however, introduced a variety of tools to do more with less. StumbleUpon.com is an online community of user-generated referrals. Just as friends refer [...]

Don’t dismiss these tools too soon!  Tech Savvy leaders in the business world are maximizing Twitter and StumbleUpon to enhance their businesses and get-head. Here are a few ways that you can benefit from using these internet applications. TWITTER Twitter is the “water-cooler” of the internet.  The social networking tool connects individuals that may feel [...]

These entrepreneurs don’t carry leather briefcases or wear designer suits. They are in their 20s-mid30s, value fun and creativity, and are worth millions to billions of dollars. A new breed of entrepreneur is making its mark on the business world.   Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Garret Camp (StumbleUpon), Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone (Twitter), Chad [...]

These days time is money. No one has any time to search through all the millions of sites on the internet to find things they are interested…. But what if the internet did the foot work for you??? It seems too good to be true.  However, the founders of stumble upon have done just this. Now the [...]

People who are aware of this social media tool called StumbleUpon know that is drives money into many sites. It has the ability to generate money for your blog and e-commerce site or just send relative traffic to your site. Here are a few specifics: Generate rapid exposure — for a specific website, brand or [...]

Right now I’m sitting in my most boring class…but I’m not bored.  Luckily I installed StumbleUpon while waiting for the professor to arrive. Normally, I have about 5 different website I visit on a regular basis (Facebook, forums, etc).   I really like these sites, but after a short time I want more content from web browsing.  [...]

[/caption] I was reading an interview with one of the founders of StumbleUpon when I realized a lot can be learned from their experiences. It all started with a pain that they were experiencing.  Search engines were very useful, but they were not effective at discovering new [...]

For all those pessimists out there who condemn the Internet for turning a generation of youth into mindless mouse-clickers, StumbleUpon adds more arsenal to their cannon. In a culture driven upon easy access to information and instant access, StumpleUpon is a dream come true to all those looking to cure their boredom through surfing the Internet. Right [...]

Anyone who has taken a class with Professor Powell knows that marketing is, “finding out what people want, and then giving it to them.”  Stumbleupon does just this.  With Stumbleupon, you plug in some initial interests, and then it brings up websites that you might like.  As it learns what you like, it will bring [...]