Stumble Upon

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Someone told me about a site called Stumble Upon ( http://www.StumbleUpon.com ) recently, and I did not pay much attention to it until I was sitting one evening at office, with so many things to do that I had to relax to get back to my normal work. There are not too many ways to relax while I’m sitting inside my cabin, and the best solution is to google some random stuff, but when I opened google, I suddenly remembered about this site called stumble upon!

I decided to give it a shot, and the moment I saw it, I knew that this is going to be one of the biggest things on the internet over the next five years. Forget googling something, now you can stumble it! Stumble Upon is basically a free web browser plug-in that allows ‘stumblers’ to find and rate WebPages from all over the internet. A user basically lets Stumble Upon know his preferences and interests, i.e. art, photography, Indian history, classical rock, journalism etc and when he clicks the stumble button on the browser, it will show a page related to that persons interests. The user can rate every page with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and Stumble Upon fine-tunes the pages that the user is shown and over time makes sure every page that the user sees is new and that the user likes it! I’ve been using it for two weeks now, and I absolutely love it. I clicked stumble ten times and I got shown a site about adiago tea, some amazing photographs, a site with unique recipes, one about designer cars , an online videogame that helps pass time, an interesting blog about a waiters life , a site about fashion with balloons and even a site with the entire menu of starbucks with user ratings!

Stumble Upon is basically a very simple concept, but it’s a new way to surf, an interesting way to surf. Most of these sites are ones that I’m sure I would have never seen all my life without the help of stumble upon, the fact that I like most of them is an additional bonus! I really believe that I will bump into a few good business ideas if I keep hitting the stumble button, and I think I already have, but I’m not going to talk about it until it’s really executed. But to everybody else, there’s one thing that I want to say, start stumbling!

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?