Category Archives: StumbleUpon

À la recherche du temps perdu…

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"Warning: may contain trace levels of sarcasm"

'They were born and then they lived and then they died, seems so unfair I want to cry.'

Stumbleupon Groups were great places that were first crippled then killed off by the cruel alien  overlords that run the StumbleUpon Empire.

I started and ran three of them: China, Second Life and Sock Puppets.

Life after the Stumble Button

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The StumbleUpon blog has been exported and uploaded, tweaking is occuring, friends, followers and fans are being notified. Groups are being archived, screenshots taken.
This flurry of activity is due to the developers of Stumbleupon deciding to stab their loyal userbase in the back and remove all the blogging features on SU like photoblogging, using html and being able to post single ‘blog posts’ i.e. all the bits that made it fun.

I will continue to use the SU messaging features to keep in contact with some of the many friends I have made during the last seven years.

Let’s hope that things get better from now on, update your bookmarks.

Account Changes FAQ

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http://www.stumbleupon.com/help/account-changes-faq/

“Member since Jul 31, 2004.”

 

So this is it.

The End.

The finish – they think it’s all over.

It is now.

My Stumbleupon toolbar has been deleted – maybe I’ll add a last farewell before SU goes dark on October 24th.

“One day goodbye will be farewell,
So grab me while we still have the time…”

P.S. :
http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/stumbleupon-removing-photo-blog-group-and-themes-features-23-09-2011/

Marc Leibowitz, Stumble Upon’s vice president of marketing and business development explains:

“We’re talking about a small, albeit passionate, group of users that were using these bells and whistles…
it was costing us time to maintain these things“

Correcting internet errors

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Correcting internet errors, one mistake at a time.

http://www.epica-awards.com/pages/pastresults2005_epicador_press.html (dead link)

You can view the site here as it is still online.

To be honest I am heartily sick of seeing these insulting ‘flags’ popping up when I click the stumble button.

The Chinese flag was particularly annoying because it is factually wrong see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China

…so I decided to correct it.

Anybody else want to ‘correct’ one of the others?

About the Epica Awards

‘Established in 1987, Epica Awards is unique as it is the only creative prize judged by the press.
Today the jury brings together more than 200 chief editors and senior reporters from trade, specialist and mainstream titles in over 60 countries. The awards are open to agencies, design studios, production houses, advertisers, digital marketers – in fact, talents from every corner of the communications business.”

Stumbleupon, updated 2023

Reasons to set your location to: Royston Vasey

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http://www.stumbleupon.com/city/royston_vasey/

Sorry, Stumbleupon no longer exists – it was a great online community  similar to (but before) Tumblr until the people who ran it broke it. 

SU Population = 5

Calling all stumblers:

Move to Royston Vasey, you know it makes sense.

Imagine if you move to Royston Vasey you will:

1) Be able to tell foreigners that they won’t have heard of where you live ‘unless you are local’
2) Politely decline to post your location on people’s guest maps , because ‘Where I live isn’t listed.’
3) NOT appear on google earth and therefore be safe from spy satellites,
4) Never leave,
5) Go swimming in our incredibly shallow gene pool.
6) er…
7)…that’s it

Master-Li – StumbleUpon

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http://master-li.stumbleupon.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20070627191746/http://master-li.stumbleupon.com/archive/10/

I like Master-Li because he is local and he knows what happened to all those missing neutrinos.

Update2022: I really liked Master-Li and his sense of humour. I think he transferred to tumblr but I lost track of hime a long time ago. Here’s an archived screen grab of his stumble site:

wangkings favorite websites – StumbleUpon

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http://wangking.stumbleupon.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20051227082614/http://wangking.stumbleupon.com/

欢迎
Welcome to stumbleupon.

Update 2022:

With some people SU was always going to a bit of a joke – and like this user they dropped out fairly quickly.

However, Stumbleupon was great and very successful for a number of years. Books were written about how to use it to promote websites and businesses.

For those of us who used it , it was great and a real sense of community developed which you may see in later years.

Check out the StumbleUpon category for more info

Skedaddles reviews – StumbleUpon

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Skedaddle was another StumbleUpon user and blogger with a American Civil War theme.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050404001720/http://skedaddle.stumbleupon.com/

Sample page taken from the Wayback Machine


As one ‘Civil War’ aficionado to another I cannot rate Skedaddle’s site highly enough, whilst I merely read around the English Civil War Skedaddle contributes to the body of knowledge about the American Civil War. Visit his site at: http://www.pddoc.com/skedaddle/articles/index.html to find out more.

Update 2022:

Skeddale’s website is still online but sadly doesn’t seem to have been updated for a long time.

FreqWizs reviews – StumbleUpon

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I also ran into FreqWiz in SecondLife which was a nice surprise

http://freqwiz.stumbleupon.com/

Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20051104043017/http://freqwiz.stumbleupon.com/


“…even though what you might say about my country, my president, my job, or me might hurt, I will gladly die defending your right to say it!” This is a sentiment I can agree with, however, I will respectfully remind you of what your general George S Patton said “Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

EdwtheLongshanks reviews – StumbleUpon

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Stumbleupon user EdwtheLongshanks

http://edwthelongshanks.stumbleupon.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20050810030154/ttp://edwthelongshanks.stumbleupon.com/

Update: Another fellow stumbler and his Stumbleupon Blog has survived pretty much intact.

Looking for other Stumbleupon users?

Try looking here

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Edwardus Primus Scottorum malleus hic est. Pactum serva.

– “Edward the First, Hammer of the Scots, keep the faith“

aldozey’s reviews – StumbleUpon

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Screenshot of aldozey’s Stumbleupon blog

http://aldozey.stumbleupon.com/

Wayback machine link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050829104133/http://aldozey.stumbleupon.com/

I can’t understand why nobody hasn’t reviewed al before. Plenty of links and his music is well worth listening to.

Visit the Disorder web site at http://www.disordermusic.com and you can download some of their tracks for free. – Unfortunately, I couldn’t track down a new (working) link for this