Posts Tagged with ‘Stumbleupon’

Poor Louis. He may end up sorry that he ever raised his FriendFeed pompoms toward me. I've spent the past two days crawling all over FriendFeed to give it the chance that I never did. I added it to Twhirl so I could follow the updates during the day.
The truth is that I now detest it even more than I did before, but it's for different reasons.
My initial impression (and complaint) back when I first reviewed FriendFeed was that it [...]

I'm a little late getting to the Webby nominees announcement. I usually look at web awards as a lot of sunshine being blown in certain areas, but this year, I was pleasantly surprise to see some of my favorites nominated, many seemingly completely out of the blue.
In no particular order, here are my personal favorites in the website categories:
In the Charitable Organizations Nonprofit category, the standout for me is Kiva, which has been the clear breakout star of the socially [...]

In the time since Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine popularized the term crowdsourcing, the 'wisdom of crowds' has been implemented in several varying ways across the web resulting in virtually eliminated “cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals.”
Digg and StumbleUpon are two examples of crowd wisdom where most of the labor is provided by the user community completely free of charge for each of the companies, though others such as CambrianHouse, iStockPhoto and Threadless compensate users/sellers through royalties and [...]

FriendFeed seems to be the aggregator on everyone's Facebook profile these days. Made up entirely of ex-Googlers, it seems to have taken off, at least as my updates seem to keep telling me.
Linking up feeds from 28 supported services (including the usual StumbleUpons, Twitters, YouTubes, and Flickrs), FriendFeed allows you to keep up with what your contacts are doing in one centralized location, via either your FriendFeed page or the corresponding Facebook application.
If this is all sounding familiar, you are [...]

Scribd, a self-publishing network, is a self-professed Silicon Valley startup founded in 2006 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman and Tikhon Bernstam and as the story goes, “The idea was inspired when Trip and Jared wanted to publish some of their school papers online and couldn't find an easy way to do it. They hit upon the idea of making a website designed for people to share their documents with the world… Part of the idea behind Scribd is that everyone [...]

Roll A Name is a new social networking site currently in beta testing. The idea is that users can benefit by gaining visibility and using “shameless” self promotion. As with any other run-of-the-mill networking site, Roll A Name members can create profiles, add friends, set preferences and so on. According to the site, users can also promote anything that interests them from favorite movies to websites. My question is: “Is there room for one more marginal social networking site on [...]

Before Profy hits Paris tomorrow for LeWeb 3, I thought it?d be fitting to run some startups by you. Why? Well, why not? It?ll give you a feel for what to expect. You?ll familiarize yourself a bit. Or something like that.
Anyway, let?s press on. First up, Semingo. It?s a social search startup. What?s social search? Beats me.
No, seriously, social search is kind of cool. (I suppose. In a sort of Google-wants-to-be-your-buddy-and-go-karting-together kind of way.) The objective is to take [...]

The Web 2.0 blogs are abuzz with a Google Labs experiment that no actual person seems to have gotten their hands on yet: a voting mechanism for Google search results. It's been called Digg-styled while others think it's just a way to personalize results.
I don't think it's either one. I think Google realizes that if people didn't want more relevant results, Mahalo would have sunk like a stone already, and that isn't the case. While I've [...]

Today, StumbleUpon, the company whose claim to fame is a nifty shuffle-like technology that provides Web browsers (people, not software programs) with the option to discover new facets (a.k.a.: sites) of the Internet quickly and easily, announced an addendum to its product/service. The new addition will allow for it to venture out of the toolbar and into webpages themselves.
Well, those of search engines, at least. StumbleUpon has unveiled SearchReviews, a feature that, aside the ranking of links on engines like [...]