While reading the finance page from Yahoo! I saw a very interesting article about that eBay acquired StumbleUpon for approximately $75 million. eBay wants new communities that are based on commerce and sustained by trust, and StumbleUpon is the right community for that. I cannot disagree. StumbleUpon is most advertised by word-of-mouth and is growing with 150 % each year. I don’t think this growth will slow down in the future.
For the people that don’t know what StumbleUpon is, they allow people to discover websites, videos, people, product information, just everything that you can think of on the web. The people can vote for the content they see and that way StumbleUpon gets smarter as it is used and provides an increasing level of relevance over time.
StumbleUpon has more than 2.3 million users and approximately 5 million recommendations daily. The company was found back in 2001 and is located in San Fransisco. StumbleUpon is now one of the most popular ways to discover new content on the web.
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May 31st, 2007 at 2:17 pm
this is interesting news….but i hardly use su these days…almost every junk site is using it to get some hits…and is the traffic worth it? eating up your bandwidth, giving you no clicks on ads..no revenue…very few people use it to acctually share good sites, i believe…
May 31st, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Your always one step a head of the crowd. I was just reading all about it yesterday and thought about it while you took action!!!
I get alot of traffic from Stumble upon.
Steve
May 31st, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Yeah, I get some decent traffic from SU as well
May 31st, 2007 at 5:41 pm
StumbleUpon is worth it when you pay for it.
Also, many diggers use SU. If they find something good on SU it may end up on digg.
May 31st, 2007 at 6:18 pm
Will be interesting to see how ebay looks in a few years. By then, hopefully, the will have in place whatever plan they have for SU, Skype, etc.
I’m not seeing the big picture, but then maybe that’s why I’m not asked to make calls like that.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:50 pm
I have to agree with TopHosting.us. I don’t understand why Ebay would want to purchase stumbleupon. The truth is, the ONLY thing I can see for them buying it is so that Google doesn’t. If Google bought it, they’d get even bigger and that’d hurt Ebay’s PayPal because Google could invest more in their payment method.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:21 pm
I think eBay might up with a kind of search engine to.
May 31st, 2007 at 10:49 pm
KingNomar does it again
Always first with the news and first with his view!
Keep up the good work.
June 1st, 2007 at 7:53 am
StumbleUpon’s ad program is top-notch. I’ve done a litte advertising there and it was well worth it.
And outside of that, I’ve gotten some great traffic from them after someone has stumbled my site.
June 1st, 2007 at 4:13 pm
June 1st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
True Mike !!
June 4th, 2007 at 1:00 am
That’s a great business move by eBay…It seems as though all the big companies are buying out a lot of the blogging platforms for good amounts of money!
-Gregg