Last summer, one of my friends told me that they had used stumble to find a site they were refering me to. When I said I didn’t understand, they sent me the link to the website where I could download the Stumble! toolbar onto my firefox web browser. When I set my account up, I was able to download the toolbar, fill out a list of my interests, websites I like to browse, etc and then started to stumble. Since I picked sites for cooking, web design, humor, and more, I came across many sites with recipes, home decorating, stunning landscape pictures, funny comics and more.
I was suddenly intrigued by this technology. The ability to blindly search the internet, only knowing that it is somehow related to your list of interests and waiting to see what comes up next. For advertisers, if people are coming across certain websites based upon an interest list and then by clicking stumble, you could be sure to reach all the people of certain interests. You can also build up a list of users and their interests. How many of you have used Stumble?
bridgette619 said,
December 28, 2009 at 9:13 pm
I’ve never heard of Stumble…thanks for the education! : )
This is great, new technology that I plan to try out!
Thanks for the post,
B.
Wooden Toys said,
July 10, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I haven’t used it yet but it has been on my to do list for sometime. I find so many of the new media web technologies so confusing. Stumble, Digg, Delicious etc. I can work out how to do it, I am a little slower in grasping the why!