StumbleUpon Is Back

After nearly two years as a subsidiary of eBay, today StumbleUpon returns to being an independent company.   StumbleUpon is now backed by myself and co-founder Geoff Smith, along with several great investors who’ve backed companies such as Google and Facebook.
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What’s Up With DropJack?

Has anyone noticed that DropJack has been having a lot of problems staying online this last couple of weeks?  Last week is when I noticed it the most – I counted at least 4 times that I was unable to access their site.
At first I thought that it was my system causing problems but after [...]

Social Media Marketing – Bookmarking & Digging

Social Media Marketing:
Social media marketing encompasses a lot of different types of programs such as social bookmarking, podcasting, video promotion, photo-casting, article marketing, blogging, etc. All of these have three primary benefits, first and foremost, they help to boost your websites credibility by increase the amount of places information about your products are displayed. [...]

Should I Use LinkedIn?

Should you take the time to sign up with LinkedIn? What benefits will it provide? Well, first you need to understand what LinkedIn is.
LinkedIn was launched in 2003 with the primary focus being a business networking site where registered users can find and connect with other professionals in their company, industry or in complementing [...]

Social Media – Recipe For Disaster?

As I was updating my profile on MySpace, I noticed that I had requests waiting from people that want to be part of my circle of friends. Well, as usual, there was a lot of spam in the requests – you know the stuff, requests from porn sites, discount watch scams, etc.
Well, in this [...]

Social Media – The Golf Course of The Digital Age

Online social media sites such as MySpace, LinkedIn, FaceBook and others have opened up tremendous opportunities for businesses to network with other like minded professionals that have similar goals and ambitions.
Social Media Websites have truly become “the golf course of the digital age”.
No longer is it only doctors and lawyers on this digital golf course, [...]

Blogs and Viral Marketing

The basic definition of Viral Marketing is “to propagate a specific message using word of mouth”.
What other form of marketing could be easier than viral marketing? Probably none if it is done right. Most of you have probably heard the saying that if you do something wrong, someone will tell ten people about [...]