Saturday 30 August 2014

Best alternatives and competitors of Stumbleupon.com

StumbleUpon intro:
Starting year:- 2001
Growth:- 25 million visitors and users.



Procedure to join: Sign up an account in Stumble Upon(you can also sigh up using Your  Facebook account, Choose interests, and you’re done. Start stumbling your favourite websites.
Useful to: website/blog owners to draw some traffic.
How to submit your site:-  After logging in simply go to add a page and follow the steps.

You can also share, like and comment on your own websites and the websites of others.
Official website: www.stumbleupon.com
Here I present the best alternatives of Stumbleupon.

Founder: Ben Silbermann, Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra


Competitor of StumbleUpon
Pinterest focuses on images, videos, graphics than articles, text etc.
 You can create your new category known as “pinboards”(known as list in SU) and
“pin” button works as like button.
It doesn’t have vast amount of interests like Stumble
official website www.pinterest.com 

Founders: Jonathan Siddharth, Vijay Krishnan


Flipora is upgraded from old site named “Fireaxe”.
New content discovery and sharing site.
Over 60 topics, it provides advanced content discovery to their users.
To discover more websites ”Flip” button is used (as Stumble button in stumbleupon).
Fastly growing website.
Official website:- www.flipora.com


Founder: Updating Soon......
Works through a “bookmarklet button”.(add their bookmarklet button into your browser’s
favourites bar,go to your favourite website and click on bookmarkle).
Limitations:- You can’t discover new websites through it or submit your own website or blog. 
Official website:-  www.nextstories.com

Founder: Guy Kawasaki
Alternative of StumbleUpon.
Finding new information from particular website/blog is easy.
You can also submit your website or blog to Alltop.
Lot of categories and  sub-categories.
Official website:-  www.alltop.com



Reddit has a very simple layout.
It has lot of categories and sub-categories “sub-reddit”.
One can also submit new links,
Submission is restriction to avoid spamming.
After submitting a link one has to wait for a lot of time time to submit another.
Official website: www.reddit.com


Founders: Maxim Voronkov, Paul Guscha, Matthias Schneider and many more.

You  have to register on suggy to get a download link of Suggy toolbar.
After installingthe suggy toolbar,it will automatically detect your interests by analysing your browsing history and bookmarks and will provide you different topics and groups.
Official website: www.suggy.com




5 comments:

  1. Hi,

    A good altertative to stumbleupon is go-random.com

    Greets Flo

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  2. i think i still prefer stumble upon. its just easy and flexible. for relationship. visit www.tinyphoenixx.blogspot.com.ng

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