Sunday, January 25, 2009

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles.

Web pages are presented when the user clicks the "Stumble!" button on the browser's toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user's ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. Users can rate or choose not to rate any Web page with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and clicking the Stumble button resembles "channel-surfing" the Web. StumbleUpon also allows their users to indicate their interests from a list of nearly 500 topics to produce relevant content for the user. There is also one-click blogging built in as well.

eBay acquired StumbleUpon in May 2007 for $75,000,000.

Related Link:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/productdemo.php

1 comment:

  1. Looks like an interesting application, but it would be a challenge to see into the insides. Can you see semantic web principles at work here or do they describe the working of it somewhere? If you do, its really good then! Please ensure that you can fulfill the requirements!

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