Keeping up with my friends stumbles is getting hard and harder, as my mutual friends and targets list grows. I currently have 30 mutual friends of whom I try to stay updated with all the time. I am also targeting another 22 people, of whom I want to become friends with. That’s a total [...]

Have you noticed that some articles that are submitted to StumbleUpon say, “This article was submitted by someone” Well, who the hell is someone? I did some research and I have been able to figure it out. Someone is the moron who sent the article to “someone” using the “send to” button without first thumbing [...]

Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification in a hierarchical system. StumbleUpon contains a taxonomy, which is classified to 15 interests, of which contain a total of 501 subcategories. These categories are also known as TAGS. When you submit an article to the database, you are actually classifying the article for StumbleUpon. This is [...]

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.robdogg.com/wordpress/swf/SU friends stumble Completed.swf" height="300" width="400" /] I came across an interesting find today while attempting to understand how the Stumble button works. How many of you stumble your friend’s articles? I do it all the time, and always wondered how the results were driven. I did not crack the code, but I have [...]

I have received a lot of emails, and messages, and thumbs down from people complaining about spam, and spamming the system. Let me give you a real example of spamming the system that I discovered on stumbleupon just today. I did a search for blogs today on StumbleUpon, and this is what I got as [...]