New StumbleUpon Feature: Site Specific Stumbling
Michael Arrington
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The most recent StumbleUpon Toolbar (v. 3.05) includes a new feature called StumbleThru, which allows users to stay on a specific web site while stumbling through pages that they might enjoy. Wikipedia, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube, Wordpress, The Onion, and CNN are some of the sites currently enabled (as are the .edu and .gov domain names).
It’s a cool way to find those YouTube videos or Onion articles that will appeal most to you. But I agree with Rafe Needleman - StumbleUpon should release this functionality through an API and let sites include a “Stumble” button. If the reader is a StumbleUpon user, it will take them to a page on the site that they’ll like. If they aren’t, it should take them to a random page on that site and can prompt them to become a StumbleUpon user to get more customized results.
Creating a link to take readers to a random post is a good idea and would only take a couple of minutes to code in WordPress (we’ll do it for fun this afternoon). If StumbleUpon gives away the functionality, my guess is a lot of sites would integrate it to increase page views.
Update: There’s now a Wordpress plugin to generate a random post redirect within the blog. We’ve integrated it. More here.
This service will help us find more of what we WANT to find.
I can’t wait to try it !
I just love stumbleupon.
eBay did good.
I would *love* it if they’d allow stumbling withing a specific site.
I’d also love to see the ability for site owners to get an RSS feed of when their site has been added to StumbleUpon so that I could add them to my Yahoo Pipe:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/p.....h___l7okhQ
Anything to make my stumbles more relevant is greatly appreciated, but Stumble is still not worth the eBay purchase price. It’s audience is too small:
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/top25-web2.html
Mike - you are missing the point of audience vs. engagement. StumbleUpon’s audience is highly engaged in thumbing/rating/etc.
Considering that SU sends most of their users away to other sites, their attention metrics via the Compete toolbar are impressive. How much of that time is spent interacting with the SU toolbar but not actually viewing the SU site? This is also likely a problem with other page-view metrics, BTW.
Whoever buys SU ends up with a whole bunch of attentive eyeballs that generate a lot of value in finding pages on all the corners of the intertubes.
Yeah great add-on and Im sure this feature was already included in the price that was negotiated by Ebay -
- I kinda am scared of the way in which Ebay will use stumble upon-
-RB
I like stumble upon, but I unistalled it. Its old technology, and has a bug in it from the past; the bug: it dies, killing browser and everything, after a while of working fine. I have my computers up all the time; so…it just became a pain in the ass to keep dealing with it.
Here you go:
http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....-redirect/
While that’s a neat plugin, wouldn’t it be better to go to a random “best of” page instead of just any page? Wikipedia already has one of those anyways - click the “random page” on the left. I wonder if people use it much.
Ops. Someone switch the theam to the default!
Screenshot:
http://img.photobucket.com/alb.....screen.gif
Dude..
Whats happening.. i just seen 3 versions of techcrunch!!!
Are you guys messing with us, cause for a sec i thought i was seeing things don’t exist!!…lol
Mike what you up to man!
I just caught all three theme changes here:
http://nickperez.org/blog/?p=98
I missed the new one… looks pretty slick, but I think the current one has a certain appeal.
Mike,
Why would a site want to work with StumbleUpon when there would be no additional benefit to that site? Wouldn’t it be better to have their own “Top Pages” or “Related Items” section, as most currently do? I wouldn’t want to deal with StumbleUpon–don’t see what the benefit would be for us.
-Jay
Its a good feature in Stumble upon. Yeah as Rafe & Mike says, they should release API, by which all other site and blog can have this feature.
http://www.suggestusability.com
Nice feature, Really useful if your bored
Could this be a reason for ebay acquiring them? missed out on this aution, well, how about this one?
A Drupal module version is now available at http://drupal.org/project/stumble
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Keep hearing this unmistakable “revolutionary buzz” about the company. Calm before the storm anyone?
Stumble upon is a total waste of time. Who are you people? Get jobs and lifes and hobbies….quickly!
>>Stumble upon is a total waste of time.
I agree with you.
>>Stumble upon is a total waste of time.
I agree with you.
Wonderful feature addition! I’ve been missing this type of feature in the StumbleUpon toolbar since the day I started using it seriously.
- Avi
It’s almost similar to mine…
http://www.TheRandomHomepage.com
I love stumble upon, but it is a waste of time and that’s SUs real value. We spend too much time trying to use or time efficiently. It’s good to waste time sometimes.
>>I’ve been missing this type of feature in the StumbleUpon toolbar since the day I started using it seriously.
OH RLLY? lol you can use the toolbar seriously?
Stumble Upon is a highly valuable and useful tool. It will interesting to see how well this new addition plays out with stumblers, myself included.