Recently, I “stumbled” on StumbleUpon.com and quickly saw what a resource it is.  While I do quite a bit of research online, sometimes it’s hard to find articles and content that’s relevant to what I’m looking for.  Stumbleupon.com makes it so much easier to find articles, web sites, and information.  A press release on late 2008 stated:

“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

When a user registers, they indicate what topics/categories they’re interested in.  Then when the “Stumble” button is clicked, Stumbleupon.com cycles through the content submitted by over 8.2 million members.  I found articles and information from web design to business entrepreneur resources, and from the newspapers throughout the world to the arts.

It’s great for finding business resources, too.  The other great thing is that by using the Firefox toolbar, you can easily give a web site a “Thumbs Up” and add it to your favorites.  Because it’s browser based, favorite sites can be accessed anywhere.

I’ve used other social bookmarking sites like digg.com and delicious.com, but for me, the difference is the “stumble” feature that recommends sites based on my interests.   For me, it uses the best features of social bookmarking and makes it more fun and relevant.