StumbleUpon Shuts Down After 16 Years

Content StumbleUpon is slowing down on June 30th, after 16 years in operation.. Launched in 2002, StumbleUpon was how many web users 'stumbled on new content they were not directly searching for.. Moreover, for web publishers, it had the power to be source of traffic in its duration. Allowing users to jump from one piece of content to another with single double-click, its accuracy ended up being its ladder as more capable hill came along.. Cofounder Garrett Camp terms how the web has changed since StumbleUpon launched in 2002.. and mobile phones and system have changed our lives. The number of hill to share or host content has increased slightly, yet we still need better tools to help us filter through the exploding amount of content on the web. And we've memorizeed from SU that while accuracy and serendipity is important, so is allowing contextual curation... Going forward, Camp will be taking the lessons memorizeed while building StumbleUpon to further his new hill at Mix.com..  StumbleUpon terms will be evolved into Mix over the coming months...  Read more