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Information Model for StumbleUpon's user profile. StumbleUpon was a browser extension, toolbar, and mobile app with a "Stumble!" button that, when pushed, opened a semi-random website or video that matched the user's interests, similar to a random web search engine. [1] Users were able to filter results by type of content and were able to ...
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- November 2001; 21 years ago
- June 30, 2018; 5 years ago
- San Francisco, California, United States
- What Was StumbleUpon?
- A Tool For Explorers
- Making The Internet More Walkable
- What Happened to StumbleUpon?
StumbleUpon was created in 2001 by Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance, and Eric Boyd. The idea came from the fact that typical search engines only work if you know what you're looking for. Music discovery had Pandora, but there wasn't anything similar for the internet. The solution they came up with was StumbleUpon. On the surface, it seeme...
StumbleUpon was a darling child of the internet in the late 2000s and early 2010s. It was a time when the internet was still primarily a thing people accessed on a computer. Smartphones were becoming popular, but not everyone had one yet. A lot of people were getting their first taste of the post-dial-up internet at this time. That made StumbleUpon...
StumbleUpon made the internet feel much more accessible. You were just a click away from discovering an interesting website you would have never known about. The internet is like a massive city---it's easy to go your whole life not knowing a great restaurant is just a couple of blocks away. In the same way, you might have no idea there's a very pop...
I've been talking about StumbleUpon in the past tense, but it does technically still exist. In 2018, StumbleUpon was shut down in favor of the Garrett Camp's new service called "Mix." StumbleUpon accounts were transitioned to Mix, and users were able to import their StumbleUpon favorites. Mix is also geared toward discovery, but it's not about webs...
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Jun 11, 2023 · StumbleUpon's niche, really, ceased to be unique, and Garrett Camp left as CEO in May 2012. He reacquired his share a few years later, according to Product Mint, but personally announced in May ...
May 24, 2018 · StumbleUpon was a wacky game of roulette Mix serves up content in the form of articles and oddities according to your preferences, but it fails to capture the feeling of being a wanderer on the web.
May 25, 2018 · Now, after 16 years of helping people explore the web, StumbleUpon is going kaput on June 30. "Since starting SU the number of people with internet access has grown nearly 10x, and mobile phones ...
