All Things Workplace: When Systems Save Lives. Really. – StumbleUpon. It is interesting that even though it melted the plastic it didn’t cause the rug to catch on fire. They were lucky.
Dont sleep with your smart phone nearby – CNN.com – StumbleUpon. This makes sense. I am going to put the phone in another room. I hope I will hear the alarm in the morning.
I had someone email me today on StumbleUpon and say that they frequently vote on sites and ask me to follow them. Normally I would ignore that but I went to the profile and saw things that she liked that interested me. So I added her. Then 5 minutes later I get an email that said she couldn’t add me to follow for some technical reason. I delisted her.
Why bother to send people a message if you aren’t serious about following them as well? Why play games? Or better yet, figure out why you can’t add people and then contact the new guy.
StumbleUpon has been suggesting pages for me the last two weeks and the majority of them have been in error. They are either domain expired, or 404 pages. Are other people experiencing this?
I report those pages faithfully but I seem to get more error pages not less of them. Is it possible that SU uses people who report error pages, to cross check the error pages that other people have reported? I feel that the more I report error pages, the more error pages I see. Am I going crazy? Where is Nomad when you need him?
This article has some excellent information on demographics, application usage, and other use of smart phones and Internet services. If I was trying to sell a product in this marketplace, this well-researched article would be something I would refer to.
via Market Overview 2010:The state of the smartphone revolution | The Digital… – StumbleUpon.
After surfing the Internet the last two years for articles that I think you might enjoy, it is harder to find interesting and unique content.
I find as I am surfing a high number of duplication, errors of all types (misconfiguration software, factually wrong statements, and scrapings of other websites). It is interesting what StumbleUpon suggests for me. I have more than 30 categories of content, but the more that I use it, the worse it seems to get. Has anyone noticed this? That SU really reaches to find interesting things to share?
What I have noticed is that SU tries to suggest pages based on most recent stumbles by other users. Many times those suggestions are the same pages that other stumblers stumble. So for instance I might look at 50 pages per day and out of those 4 are duplications of what other users have found. It doesn’t do a good job of filtering pages you have already seen.
This isn’t meant as an attack/rant against StumbleUpon. I have found some great content with it. It just seems that there is quite a bit of noise on this service, and very little signal. When I first started it, I found all kinds of great content. Now however, the great content is harder to find. I have started to suggest pages that I thought were good for others to find, but have less than 10 that I’ve suggested.
Some stumblers find some great content. I have met some interesting people from it as well. What would be a killer application is to have SU also integrate with Gmail or other email services. So that when you stumbled something you could automatically notify a select group of friends. Even better would be integration with Shareaholic. A Shareaholic and StumbleUpon combination would be amazing. It could be double filtered against your interests, and that would make a very intelligent AI to select things for you.
I will stick with SU until I find a better way to find new and interesting content. I am open for suggestions.
How to Not get Banned on StumbleUpon. Interesting. I didn’t know about being a ghost on SU. I have found 7 sites. I will see if it really does work like he suggests.
Perfect Timing | Crazy Earth – StumbleUpon. Some perspectives you only get by being in the right place, at exactly the right time.
