| Today, the goal of a website seems to be the largest, the best, the most visited, the largest number of users and the most effective link. google's dream is: someone searches, and the top matching result is the website visited by most people. this method is effective if you search for something the same as others. but what if they are different? A website called stumbleupon (www.stumbleupon.com) that has been established for five years has been attracting users who want to find their own path on the Internet in obscurity. it provides services that allow users to recommend websites to others and then "randomly" access by others based on their own interests. stumbleupon can be compared to a community that recommends restaurants to each other. if I find a website that I like-like a restaurant, I will mark it and classify it into one or two categories (such as history, movies, and railways ), paste it in my stumbleupon bookmarks so that someone else can find them. when I browse the Web page (equivalent to going out for dinner) and want to get some suggestions, I click stumbleupon to install stumble in a special toolbar on my browser!" Key to the page selected by another member in the community. The selection result is random, but it can be narrowed according to my interests. this makes it a useful guide because I can understand the common interests of thousands of others. But not just that. like any good audience, stumbleupon does not just make recommendations. when I access the website it sends to me, I can also click the satisfaction key or dissatisfaction key to send back my comment. stumbleupon will filter your feedback and other users' ratings on the accessed websites to refine and recommend them to your websites. if we use dinner as a metaphor, each customer gives an opinion to the club secret book after dinner, and then the Secretary will extract the information and propose the latest suggestions for future generations to eat. It seems complicated, but not actually. basically, this is equivalent to browsing the bookshelves of friends with the same reading habits as you. if you don't realize that there are many bookshelves, it will not be very attractive to you; because there are around 0.1 billion of websites around the world, there are more and more readable things, but you will find that you are less and less interested. stumbleupon randomly prepared a webpage dinner that may not appear on the Google search results homepage. Stumbleupon is effective because it is a community. indeed, it adopts the so-called new Web 2.0 technology. web 2.0 provides hundreds of services that allow users to store, tag, and share Internet bookmarks from a large Del. icio. US (Yahoo !) Websites) are collected to specific countries, such as indiagram.com in the sub-mainland ). stumbleupon seems to have followed the same trend: after many years of operation in Canada, the website originally created by high school students in the dormitory has been moved to Silicon Valley and has obtained venture capital, in May, the website was officially launched. this year, the number of users has increased from around 0.6 million to 1.5 million. However, you will find the difference between stumbleupon and stumbleupon. it was born earlier than the boom in Web 2.0 and the social bookmarking service. the word Web 2.0 appeared about two years ago. furthermore, unlike most such services, it does not organize information or provide content to readers in a timely manner. it is something interesting to discover. garret camp, one of the founders responsible for website architecture, says we are looking for good stuff everywhere. We can expect that not all members of the website are experts. nearly 1/3 of them are over 35 years old. The most popular themes include radical, writing, cartoon, cat, and ironic literature. for example, there is a very active submitter named Doug ). the messy Internet user is 60 years old and lives in a remote location in northern New Zealand. since Doug joined the Community two years ago, he has added nearly 27,000 bookmarks to stumble's database, covering a wide range of topics ranging from Botany to the Islamic sufei-School-sick-myism. it now takes 4 hours on average every day to add the remaining 186,000 bookmarks it collects to the database. For some people, Doug may be too obsessed, but for many other Members, he is a hero, 754 of whom say they are Doug fans, more than 150 people commented on his bookmarks. this is an opportunity for Doug to share his encyclopedic interests and make friends. he said that as long as you are not entangled in political and religious issues, you can make friends with people from afar. he said that a few friends visited him, which is a great feat, because Doug lives in an isolated place and takes 14 kilometers of land before seeing him, his old house was surrounded by forests of 2,000 years old. most visitors come from outside the sea, which reflects the international nature of stumbleupon. About half of stumbleupon users are outside the United States, of which nearly 16,000 are in Australia, 2,000 are in China, and 1,500 are in Malaysia. (stumbleupon also supports Japanese and Chinese .) Stumbleupon reminds me of the early days of the Internet era. people share their findings, and technology is far less important than the open world and friendship it brings. I believe many people spend their time studying, working, or even performing heart surgery on their websites, but it is hard to say that stumble is a waste of time. Next time you want to surf the Internet, forget Google and click stumble !. |
