Too Bad I Stumble[d]Upon This Now

About a month ago, I found the site--or program, I guess--StumbleUpon.  I can see hours of my life being drained from me every time I sign-on and start to Stumble.  Luckily for me, I found this at a time that I'm just too busy to Stumble.  I am excited to see what the buzz on the internet is, though.

StumbleUpon is just a downloadable program that attaches to your browser's toolbar.  When you click Stumble!, the program automatically sends you to a "popular" website or page.  The cool part of this is being able to find sites that you wouldn't normally have known about.  Collaboration, my friend.

When you stumble, you get a site and then have the opportunity to give it a thumbs-up, or down.  Obviously, people get to see the sites that have a lot of thumbs-up.  Here are some of the sites that I found that I gave a thumbs-up.

1. Speedtest.  This is a how-fast-can-you-type site.  This is what I did: You reached 358 points, so you achieved position 6700 on the ranking list.  You type 469 characters per minute. You have 88 correct words, and you have 1 wrong words.  See if you folks can out-type me!
2. Fullbooks.  This is a website in which you can check out thousands of free books on-line!
3. The Modern Library's 100 Best novels. 
4. Block Posters.  This is a cool site that will take any picture that you have--and break it into blocks making it huge!  I can't wait to try this.

I have three pages of things that I gave a thumbs-up, and I've only done it once for about 30 minutes.  I can see people getting addicted to this very quickly--at least I can see that for myself.

There are some problems with it, but, like I said, I haven't really done much experimentation with it yet.  Hopefully, I'll be able to post some more cool sites later.  Cheers.

Comments

[kstearns]

This sounds fascinating Ray. Maybe you can show us tomorrow night! KES

[Andy]

Thanks for suggesting this, Ray. I read about it a couple of months ago, but then forgot to check it out.

I love the suspense of what will come up next. Sometimes it's a total dud, but sometimes it's something great. I'm tired now, but maybe tomorrow I'll post some of the good stuff that I've found through StumbleUpon.