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September 21st, 2007

An Ode to StumbleUpon

Posted by: Brian

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O, StumbleUpon, you’re our only hope left. Digg started shouting at us, and we’re tempted to listen – but to no avail.

Reddit changed its looks, and is quite nice, but is a whole new alien.

Netscape went up, up, and away to Propeller.

Yahoo, you confuse us. You are already are Delicious, but Mash is just a wee child. Are you bookmarking, networking, news or what?

But you, StumbleUpon. You have stayed true to us. We want to know you very well, but don’t change a thing. We like you just the way you are.

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Brian Wallace is the founder of NowSourcing, Inc., a social media agency since 2005 serving everyone from startups to the Fortune 500 and everything in between. Prior to founding NowSourcing, Brian worked in a variety of technical and marketing environments being a Chief Technology Officer for a noted media company. Brian holds an MBA and MS in Information Systems and resides in Louisville, KY with his wife and children. He started the group social media blog, Collective Thoughts and appears as a guest author on Mashable and Google Tutor.
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http://ventureskills.wordpress.com Tim Nash

what a great piece of social prose and your right I don’t want SU to change
http://www.nowsourcing.com/blog brian

@tim: thanks! I don’t want them to change, either.
http://superstretch.org Dan

“Follow the silver gradient road, follow the silver gradient road
Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the silver gradient road”
http://www.nowsourcing.com/blog brian

@dan: I’ll get you my pretty….and I’ll invite your little dog Toto, too.
http://www.singlegrain.com/blog Sujan Patel

SU please dont change..please don’t change (while tapping my red shoes together)
http://www.nowsourcing.com/blog brian

@Sujan: lol. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. He’s making sure SU is working
tomasco

I fired up firefox in 2004. For me it is the finest browser. Everything works intuitively and makes for great surfing. Stumble has got to be the finest..extension?…………ever.
Stumble is just a peripheral extension? I think not. Whatever it is called it is a premier way to meet people and discuss ideas. Thank you fellow stumblers!!
http://www.nowsourcing.com/blog brian

@tomasco: and thank you. I’m a huge fan of Firefox myself and have been using for several years now.
http://superstretch.org Dan

Mmm… Firefox… My first experience with it was v0.99 or somewheres around there. There I was a nublet in class reading slashdot for one of the first times…
http://ravikarandeekarsblog.blogspot.com/ ravi karandeekar

Yes, absolutely right! I am with you. Very well written. I am impressed.
Josh

You wont make it to front page, remember the bury gang!
http://www.nowsourcing.com/blog brian

@dan: way to be. Glad you’ve liked firefox for so long. Why are we talking about firefox so much here? Isn’t this about StumbleUpon and the Wizard of…ok, I guess we are getting off on a tangent

@ravi: I’m glad you like it here. Hope to see you back!

@josh: thanks for the support. I like it when people say that I can’t do something. It gives me more drive. What front page are we talking about, Digg? StumbleUpon?
http://seo2.0.onreact.com Tad Chef

It already changed to the worse it seems:
http://seo2.0.onreact.com/does-stumbleupon-crack-down-on-seo-already
http://www.nowsourcing.com/blog brian

@tad chef: Perhaps. But, it isn’t that surprising. SU isn’t an SEO community such as Sphinn. That’s not to say that the SU community doesn’t find such articles interesting. Take this Ode to StumbleUpon story: it currently shows that 50 people liked it, with 29 reviews.
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http://www.sleep.fm Ryan

LoL – I was demoing my startup at TechCrunch40 where Garrett Camp stopped by my stand to have a conversation with another attendee.

I sorta made an outburst ….OOO It’s StumbleUpon guy… StumbleUpon ….

It’s a great thing, as if Google doesn’t give me good search results, I will use Stumble search for more relevant results!
http://www.nowsourcing.com/blog brian

@ryan: nice work. See if the wizard is going to help you get back to Kansas now.
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http://www.nowsourcing.com/blog brian

Thanks for the mention, Dana!
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