Prior to enrolling in Web 2.0 Technologies for the Summer session at Appalachian State University I thought I knew about all of the cool websites on the Internet... Man was I wrong. Dr. Medlin has posted some great websites to check out this semester and part of this weeks assignment is no different!
StumbleUpon (www.stumbleupon.com) is considered a discover engine. (think search engine except on a grander scale!) After signing up it allows a user to pick interests (I picked sports, restaurants, and a few different tech interests) and then searches the Internet for websites and articles that are similar to your interests. I view a bunch of sports related websites on a daily basis but just found out that Tim Tebow signed with the New England Patriots because of stumbleupon.com!
A cool feature is the "stumble" button located on the page. It searches for a random site based on your interests and found this page for me:
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2DjkEP/:5SW.Urtj:l0JU3nl8/www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/the-funniest-sports-gifs-of-2012/
It is a page with the funniest sports GIF's of 2012 and some of them are pretty good!
It is definitely an application that I will use in the future and have bookmarked it on my work computer as well as my laptop at home!
Until next time!
Jeff
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