Week 7 – Louisville Soup
It’s really a lot of fun meeting someone for the first time in person after only speaking with them online. Such was the case in meeting Mike Campbell aka Louisvillesoup on Twitter. We had a chance to meet over coffee at one of my more favorite places in town. ...Could Stumbleupon Help To Revolutionize Online Search?
Out of all the online social networks I have tried, the one I always continue to use on a regular basis is Stumbleupon. Clicking that Stumble button is like a drug and many a hour has disappeared without a trace while I find sites that I wouldn’t normally have found without the aid of this amazing social network.
But to simply label Stumbleupon a social network where you can find other amazing websites belittles its other amazing potential. For example, I have noticed it starting to influence search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Could Stumbleupon’s human-filtered search results be the beginning of the next evolution of search engines that could see the all-powerful Google algorithim be made redundant?