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stumbleupon bought by ebay

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Announced earlier today - eBay bought Stumbleupon.  I ran across Stumbleupon back in 2004 and ran the toolbar for awhile but ultimately dumped it.  Never got into the user generated recommendations thing myself.  That being said, I will say Stumbleupon has been this blog's biggest driver of new users so ...

sometimes we forget where we are on the curve

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Friend and colleague Renee Blodgett (she can blame me for getting her involved in the people search engine startup Spock) wrote an interesting post about what she calls the web 2.0 echochamber.  Her point is that we in the online startup business can get wrapped up in the new and ...