Tag archive: StumbleUpon

Noted in a recent post on the official StumbleUpon blog, the employees at the social media company lent a helping hand to a lovesick Stumbler from Wyoming. A group of engineers at the company assisted 25-year-old Tyrel in proposing to his 23-year-old girlfriend Marquita through a seemingly random collection of Internet pages. The engineers created a specific stumble session of Internet sites onto Marquita’s StumbleUpon account and collaborated… Read More

According to StatCounter, StumbleUpon has overtaken Facebook over the last two months and makes up over 50 percent of all social traffic in the United States as of August 2011. Two years ago, StumbleUpon was the main driver for social media traffic, but lost market share to Facebook  over the last 18 months. As of August, Facebook has fallen to about 38% of all U.S. traffic while sites like Twitter, Myspace, Digg, Reddit, YouTube and others are… Read More

A trend analysis from AddThis was reported by Mashable this morning, and it reveals that a whopping 44 percent of online sharing happens on Facebook. Last year, the social networking site was the platform for 33 percent of online sharing, and its growth has only made it more dominant. And there is no clear second – following Facebook are over 300 alternative services out there (think Twitter and Digg) that are competing for a piece of the share… Read More

Online auction site eBay is once again expanding its portfolio of online properties, this time announcing it is purchasing community-driven Web site recommendation service StumbleUpon for about $75 million. Founded by in Calgary by three Canadian software developers but currently based in San Francisco, StumbleUpon is built around the idea that instead of searching for interesting Web sites in a brute-force manner using a traditional… Read More