 |
“BusinessWeek Best of the Web 2008: Best Social Network”—BusinessWeek, October 2008.
|
 |
“Since it launched out of Canada in 2002, StumbleUpon’s focus has always been about directing users towards good content. It’s good at doing just that through a tailored process that includes a classification engine, a clustering engine and friend recommendations.” – VentureBeat, September 30, 2008 |
 |
“Essentially, much as Google delivers custom search within Web sites, StumbleUpon is offering custom surfing, giving publishers StumbleUpon technology to allow its users to surface content within their sites that is often deeply buried.” –All Things D, September 30, 2008. |
 |
“Social discovery engine StumbleUpon has one of the more original ad models in the Web 2.0 set.” –ClickZ News, September 30, 2008.
|
 |
“But StumbleUpon can go beyond the finding powers of traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo. By incorporating elements of social media, it is offering advertisers a unique ability to market to users with particular tastes and interests, and the opportunity to glean instant feedback from their campaigns in a way that was not readily available before.” –Globe and Mail, May 22, 2008. |
 |
“As its name suggests, StumbleUpon helps you “stumble” around the Web and find new content. A downloadable toolbar suggests Web sites and videos and learns your preferences as you give a thumbs up or down to what you see.”—Fortune, October 23, 2007. |
|
|
“A Web service called StumbleUpon has spent the last six years trying to satisfy such a need, perfecting a formula to help you discover content you are likely to find interesting. You tell the service about your professional interests or your hobbies, and it serves up sites to match them. As you “stumble” from site to site, you will feel as if you are channel-surfing the Internet, or rather, a corner of the Internet that is most relevant to you.” –New York Times, October 7, 2007. |
 |
"Web 2.0 wonders: StumbleUpon... more than two million registered users... investors include some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. Google has search almost solved. But the discovery side had not been cracked. This is a tool for finding interesting pieces of content. " - BBC News, March 29, 2007. |
 |
"Next Net 25: Ranked #1 in Social Media. Launched in 2002 by three 20-somethings in a Calgary, Alberta, apartment, StumbleUpon now has 2 million registered users drawn by its knack for finding websites that match their interests and those of others with similar tastes as they "stumble" around the Net. " - Business 2.0, February 21, 2007. |
 |
"Stumble onto the Wii: StumbleUpon released a customized version of its StumbleVideo for the Wii. The Stumble crew tells NewTeeVee they might develop a StumbleVideo version for any set-top box with an internet connection. " - GigaOm, February 12, 2007. |
 |
"StumbleUpon offers auto discovery of online videos: Stumble Video (http:/www.stumblevideo.com) provides a way to watch a stream of videos from popular video sites YouTube, Google Video and MySpace that are automatically matched to individual interests " - Reuters, December 14, 2006. |
 |
" StumbleUpon puts additional emphasis on using bookmarks rather than simply storing and sharing them. Thanks to the simple, and yet feature rich toolbar, StumbleUpon makes browsing fun again... " - Wired Blog, October 31, 2006. |
 |
"StumbleUpon Continues to Impress: StumbleUpon is yet another example of a Web-based community that has gained a significant user base in a seemingly short period of time. Check it out! " - Read/WriteWeb, September 26, 2006. |
 |
"The wildly popular Firefox extension StumbleUpon released this morning a toolbar for Internet Explorer users ... The end result is a very compelling user experience thats likely to explode now that its working with the market dominant browser." - TechCrunch, July 18, 2006. |
 |
"Social search service StumbleUpon.com on Tuesday launched an add-on for Internet Explorer to boost its base beyond the estimated 1 million who use Firefox to stumble on new sites. " - Information Week, July 18, 2006. |
 |
"StumbleUpon, a tiny company that came from Calgary and has grown to 1 million registered users just on the Firefox browser alone, has finally got its technology ready to work on the more popular Internet Explorer browser." - Tech Chronicles, July 18, 2006. |
 |
"Stumbleupon picks up the pace. The application now has 1 million registered users from Mozilla Firefox ... and next week, Stumbleupon will unveil a public version for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which commands the majority of the browser market, in the hopes of expanding its membership by the millions." - Cnet, July 13, 2006. |
 |
"Other startup efforts include the appropriately named StumbleUpon, which three Canadians designed to cater to habitual Web surfers. Type in a topic and click "Stumble" to randomly be diverted to a site popular with other users." - Jeffrey McMurray, July 9, 2006. |
 |
"Ranked 51st in 100 Best Products of the Year. When you click a toolbar button in Firefox, it will transport you to a random site that fits your preferences." - PCWorld, July, 2006. |
 |
"StumbleUpon selected as Connected Innovator. The competition was intense, with nearly 100 impressive submissions. The companies selected all have extraordinary potential to create new markets and shape the connected future." - Supernova Conference, June 19th, 2006. |
 |
"StumbleUpon adds an unobtrusive little button bar to your Firefox browser that, when clicked on, takes you to a random site already certified interesting by other StumbleUpon users. You'll see; with a little help from your fellow surfers, the Web can be a source of endless wonder again " - The Village Voice, May 23rd, 2006. |
 |
"A small canadian technology company has succeeded in attracting seed capital from a group of 10 high-profile angel investors in Silicon Valley. StumbleUpon Inc. raised money from a group that includes Google Inc. director Ram Shriram, Google advisor Rajeev Motwani and Lotus Inc. founder Mitch Kapor." - The National Post, May 18th, 2006. |
 |
"A new search engine has revitalized the Internet search, helping you to find things you never realized you needed. StumbleUpon, Inc. is a web discovery service that allows Internet users to surf Web sites, news articles, online photos and videos that relate to personal areas of interest with just the click of a mouse." - Boston Herald, May 17th, 2006. |
 |
"StumbleUpon launches, raises cash from well-known angels stumble! We've already mentioned StumbleUpon, the Web site that lets you stumble across other sites related to your interests. It has officially launched, after moving out to San Francisco from Canada." - SiliconBeat, May 16th, 2006. |
 |
"San Francisco-based StumbleUpon, which has four employees, makes a recommendation engine. When its users don't want to trust places like a search engine, Google News, or Boing Boing to surprise them with fun and interesting sites, they ask the free service to throw something new their way. Then the company incorporates feedback to better deduce appropriate fits for each user" - Red Herring, May 16th, 2006. |
 |
"An intelligent tool for browsing and sharing the best websites, StumbleUpon uses +/- ratings to analyze sites and show you only sites you'll like. Stumble across sites on the web, through the main site, or by the recommendation of other "Stumblers." - SEOmoz, Feb 11, 2006. |
 |
"It's kind of addictive ... when you have time to surf it really does allow you to find some unique and relevant sites" - Andy Walker, g4techTV, Nov 3rd 2004. |
 |
"Stumbleupon is a brilliant downloadable toolbar that beds into your browser and gives you the chance to surf through thousands of excellent pages that have been stumbled upon by other web-users" - BBCWorld ClickOnline, July 29th 2004. |
 |
"...extensions recommended by more than one reader included StumbleUpon, a community website-recommendation project that lets you find more cool and usually obscure websites -- sort of a Friendster for site links." - Wired News, July 12th 2004. |
 |
"Stumbleupon.com helps users share links by asking them to rate sites through a browser toolbar." - New York Times, Online Diary, May 6th 2004. |
 |
"I'm hooked on the thing, and rate it as the second most useful web browsing tool after Google itself. In fact, that pecking order may even change, as I find instead of Googling I'm Stumbling more and more..." – Davey Winder, PcPro Magazine, Issue 109, November 2003 |
 |
Cool Site of the Day
– August 9th, 2002 |
 |
"Stumble Upon A Winner!" – The Canadian E-Business Leadership Newsletter, July 2nd, 2002: Volume 1, Issue 6 |
 |
"The utility helps you locate, rather stumble upon, content-rich sites that are relevant to your interests" – The Hindu Times, India's National Newspaper. June 3rd, 2002 |
