Comments on: StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon

theWoodpecker — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:05:25 -0800

StumbleUpon is a browser plugin-in that "uses member ratings to form collective human opinions on website quality." The plugin-in then uses these ratings to recommend websites, much like Amazon.com recommends books.

By: _sirmissalot_

_sirmissalot_ — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:19:36 -0800

i StumbledUpon(TM) this fascinating post!

By: the fire you left me

the fire you left me — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:19:56 -0800

from the site: With Whom Does StumbleUpon Share Information? StumbleUpon may share information about you with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties.

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:40:55 -0800

Didn't Alexa already fail at this?

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:18:56 -0800

Yeah, their privacy statement was written by a very sneaky legal team. Basically it says, We won't divulge your personal information without your permission. However, if you install the toolbar, you've given us permission to hand out your email address, IP address and browsing history to anyone and everyone that will give us a buck for it. Brilliant.

By: holloway

holloway — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:30:49 -0800

By: theWoodpecker

theWoodpecker — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:56:05 -0800

hmm, it looks like you left out a pretty important sentence from the privacy policy: "StumbleUpon may share information about you with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. However, we only divulge aggregate information about our users and will not share personally identifiable information with any third party without your express consent." I don't see anything about giving consent by installing the toolbar. Oh, and another cool thing like stumbleupon but for music: gnoosic.com. I've already found a few new bands through this thing.

By: the fire you left me

the fire you left me — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:06:15 -0800

theWoodpecker, also try Epitonic.

By: elphTeq

elphTeq — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 15:31:31 -0800

Nice idea, no mac IE support :( Many good websites are never going to be stumbled upon®, methinks. Fire, thanks for epitonic, a cornucopia of new artists for the listening!

By: costas

costas — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 07:37:29 -0800

Plug (it's my site): memigo. No information-sharing, good on both IE and Mozilla.

By: moses

moses — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 09:43:58 -0800

This is absurd. All of it.