May 09 2007

Next 5 Stumbles Meme

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I was using StumbleUpon the other day and had an idea for a little meme. I’m going to list the next 5 sites that I Stumble. Then I’ll pick a handful of people to tag so they can list their next 5 Stumbles and tag a few more people.

Feel free to comment on the sites you land on if you feel like it.

Here are my Next 5 Stumbles:

  • iblocked.com - that’s disappointing. They have a search box acting as a proxy. But in reality the search box is just the Google Search thing. They are hoping you click on the links in the search results so they can earn some money.
  • Piccolini - Trendy stuff to buy kids. Furniture, toys, clothes, etc. Too expensive for my taste but I do dig the colors and shapes they use.
  • Search Engine Journal - How to remove your phone number from Google Search - Shows how to do exactly what the title says. The post is really just reporting something found on LifeHacker. My phone number doesn’t show up. Take that Google.
  • BetterHumans - This looks to be a digg type clone that seems to focus on Health, Nanotech, Robots. Nobody appears to be voting for the stories.
  • True Mom Confessions - Moms post anonymous confessions. All of the entries are plain text. I’ll stick to Post Secret. There’s something much more immediate and haunting about the images on the post cards.

It looks like I might need to tweak my preferences a little bit.

Hopefully the next group of people can have a little better luck than I did. I’m going to tag:

If anybody else wants to participate, feel free to join in.

There are always a million things been written about online.  Here are a few of my favorite recent tech posts.

Scoble removed Snap previews from his blog…and then wrote about why.  If Scoble can just persuade one user to stop using Snap previews, the world will be a little bit better of a place.

Ryan writes about deciding whether or not it is worth while to move a blog to a single site server and paying the higher cost.  If you regularly talk about Paris Hilton, it appears that the answer is yes.

Brian talks about a new service that helps you determine which MFA site’s ads are showing up on your site and paying you very little for it.  Blocking is fine and the only option right now, but I bet if google let the publishers set the lowest price per click they are willing to receive, that would help fight MFA sites, too.