Futureful’s smart content discovery app hits the iPad in the U.S.
The Janus Friis-backed serendipitous browsing tool is now available and, based on a pre-launch play-around, there really is something new and interesting in there. Read more »
Futureful plots smarter StumbleUpon for the iPad
Backed by Skype co-founder Janus Friis, Futureful is a content discovery tool that’s not dissimilar to StumbleUpon, only more heavily based on semantic tagging and machine learning. It’s due to launch in the U.S. in January. Read more »
5 ideas to help everyone make the most of big data
photo: Shutterstock / Bruce Rolff
I spent two days last week watching experts on big data and data science discuss how their companies are building businesses around data, or at least rethinking how they do business. Although most came from the web, these five ideas should matter across industries. Read more »
Study: Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Google+, nearly on par with Twitter
It’s clear that Pinterest is really hot, but a new study shows just how powerful the virtual pinboard company has become. Pinterest is now driving more referral traffic on the web than Google+, YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn combined, according to Shareaholic’s January 2012 Referral Traffic Report. Read more »
StumbleUpon gets a makeover: New design, new logo, new features
StumbleUpon has undergone a major makeover. On Tuesday the company will unveil a totally redesigned website, a complete rebrand, and a new “channels” feature. It’s the most comprehensive redesign the company’s ever undertaken, CEO Garrett Camp said: “Finally, our front-end is as good as our back-end.” Read more »
StumbleUpon shutting down photo blogs, themes, groups Oct. 24
Social discovery platform StumbleUpon says it’s cutting back on the ability of users to blog and customize their profiles on the site. That includes shutting down groups, photo blogging, and the ability to select themes, which are all going away as of Oct. 24. Read more »
StumbleUpon’s new Explore Box lets you stumble with purpose
Since its inception, StumbleUpon has worked pretty much as the name advertised, allowing you to stumble upon cool things on the web, rather than through explicit web searches. But a new “Explore Box” expands StumbleUpon’s offering significantly, bringing the app more search engine-like specificity. Read more »
How StumbleUpon is winning on the web
At nearly ten years old, web discovery engine company StumbleUpon is certainly well past the point where websites can attract users by being a new and hot trend. But the San Francisco-based company has proven that slow and steady growth can still lead to success. Read more »
StumbleUpon sends more traffic to US websites than Facebook
Web discovery engine StumbleUpon is now the biggest traffic driver among social media websites in the US, according to global web analytics service StatCounter. The company unseated Facebook at the top during June 2011 .The ten-year-old StumbleUpon has been working diligently at its comeback since 2009. Read more »
Share and Share Alike: BBC iPlayer Gets More Social
The BBC is adding new ways for iPlayer viewers to share what they’re watching with their friends and social networks, with a new share button. In addition to standard networks like Facebook and Twitter, iPlayer users can now send videos to Delicious, Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon. Read more »
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NewNet Q1: Content Farms and Niche Networks on the Rise
The first quarter of 2011 saw plenty of competition between various web companies — and some heated tension, too. Content farms generated the most debate, with Demand Media’s IPO attracting attention and controversy and Google making a major change to its ranking algorithm. Facebook, meanwhile, maintained its heavyweight status online, but this time the social network’s impact was centered on social search, unified communications and comment systems. And Facebook’s ongoing dominance raised the question, Is there room for more than one social network? If niche networks like Quora and Color are any indication, the answer is “yes.” Additional companies mentioned in this report include Twitter, Groupon, Microsoft, LinkedIn and MySpace. To see the full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
StumbleUpon Stumbles Upon a Better Ad Model: Paid Discovery
Fresh off a new round of funding, StumbleUpon has launched a new advertising platform that lets advertisers serve up pages through its targeted discovery platform. The paid discovery platform adds a new tiered pricing system and improved analytics for pages served on PCs and mobile devices. Read more »
StumbleUpon Funding Another Sign of Its Rebirth
Stumbleupon, which was reborn as a recommendation-and-discovery service in 2009 after an earlier ill-fated acquisition by eBay, produced another tangible sign of that rebirth today with the news that the company has landed a Series B financing round of $17 million from a group of funds. Read more »
StumbleUpon Takes Aim at Android App Discovery
StumbleUpon is about to take its web recommendation savvy and apply it to mobile apps for the first time. The service, which builds personal recommendations for users who want to find web content, is now launching an app discovery feature for Android apps. Read more »
StumbleUpon Wants to Be the Pandora of Web Video
StumbleUpon is making a big push behind web video in an attempt to become the best way for users to find relevant videos online. With more full-length content available through StumbleUpon Video, it could do just that, by becoming a recommendation engine for online video. Read more »
Updated: Stumbleupon — Not Much Attention, but Big Traffic
A chart of the traffic that Gawker Media gets from social networks shows Facebook in number one position and Fark as number 5 — but the most interesting part is how much influence Stumbleupon has on traffic, despite the lack of attention the site gets. Read more »
A Quick Look at the New StumbleUpon App
Social discovery engine StumbleUpon has released a new iPhone application, bringing the product’s web functionality to mobile devices.For those of you unaware, StumbleUpon, which was established in 2001, is a service which allows its users to browse the web in a casual and possibly addictive way. Read more »
For StumbleUpon, 10 Million Reasons to Party
StumbleUpon, the early web discovery engine, has reached a new milestone: 10 million Stumblers, all of whom have helped create a great little company building a structured database for the relevant web, something that Facebook is now trying to do with its Like button. Read more »
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NewNet Winners and Losers of 2009
As the year winds to a close, GigaOM Pro’s crack team of contributors takes a look back at what went right, what went wrong, and for whom in the world of the NewNet. ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Could Ad Voting Replace the Clickthrough?
Social news-sharing site Digg is testing a new advertising model in which sponsors pay less the more popular their ads are. Digg Ads – which will flow through the site’s main content stream like other stories while being identified as sponsored — will allow users to ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
