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In recent years Stumbleupon lost its way and became one of those tech companies that couldn’t figure out the ‘new’ rules of the game. Without being very punitive with my pun, Stumbleupon started to stumble—badly. But now things are starting to come round again; there’s new leadership at the top and developers have taken a [...]
October 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
StumbleUpon seems to have stumbled to its feet with news that the social discovery site is now 25 million registered users strong. The company was bought by eBay you might remember back in 2009, but was eventually let loose under its own devices. Since then there has been a mix bag of results, but with [...]
May 11th, 2012 by Anthony West
Popular social discovery website StumbleUpon has been on a tear recently. In the last few months the site has seen a record increase in the number of monthly page views and unique visitors—and revamping the way the site works along the way. Things look to be getting better for StumbleUpon and in recent weeks the [...]
November 10th, 2011 by Anthony West
Web 2.0 sites like StumbleUpon really help to define what is meant by the ‘wisdom of crowds’ and when you really want to see what’s popular, sound and generally worth looking at on the web, there’s simply no better place. According to a recent infographic detailing the workings of StumbleUpon, the site now processes over [...]
November 7th, 2011 by Anthony West
A few posts back I wrote about StumbleUpon’s plans to scale back entirely on some of its features and make the platform a leaner machine going forward. One of the speculations then was that this would perhaps hinder the growth of StumbleUpon or even cause it to lose users. I was wrong. According to recent [...]
October 19th, 2011 by Anthony West
Social bookmarking on sites like Digg and StumbleUpon is more than just a place to store your favorite links on the web, they can also be great for sharing links and a helpful online marketing tool. However, social bookmarking isn’t right for everyone. There are certain benefits and drawbacks that users need to consider. Link [...]
October 12th, 2011 by Tony Smith
Users of StumbleUpon.com had better prepare to use a leaner version of the site in the next few weeks because reports are that developers plan a major overhaul. According to reports, developers at StumbleUpon have been concerned for some time that the site has too many features that don’t have wide appeal. This fact has [...]
October 3rd, 2011 by Anthony West
There’s only one thing better than hearing “Yes, I will”, and that is hearing “Yes, I will” on your favourite social network. The benefit of this of course, is that millions of people get the chance to share in your moment of joy. That moment of joy was recently experienced by a 25 year old [...]
September 13th, 2011 by Anthony West
While industry experts are swooning over Facebook, Stumbleupon is quietly making noise with social media traffic. According to reports from StatCounter, Stumbleupon was responsible for 47.11% of social traffic up to July 2011. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the people who cover tech news in Silicon Valley have a prejudice against Stumbleupon—after all, if [...]
September 11th, 2011 by Anthony West
Some would argue that ever since Reddit got bought by Conde Naste, the popular news and link aggregation site has become a bit pretentious. Such an argument would be blatantly ignoring the fact that like Stumbleupon, Reddit has been one of the most influential websites in the last 10 years. And not only that: before [...]
September 10th, 2011 by Anthony West
There are two main features of StumbleUpon that will get more traffic to your site. The first, just as the name of the site suggest, is “stumbling upon” random websites based on topics of interest (e.g., sports, health, computer programming, games) you chose after signing up. When StumbleUpon is installed on a browser, the ability [...]
August 26th, 2011 by OnTay Johnson
