Recently I was introduced to a new website, www.stumbleupon.com. This website may seem useless and boring to some people, but I find it rather interesting, and also addicting. Stumbleupon is considered a discovery engine that finds and recommends web content to its users. Its features allow its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing and social-networking principles. When you first sign up, you check a bunch of things that interest you and it basically begins to set up a sort of personalized profile for you. Then you click the STUMBLE button, and it directs you to websites/photos/videos based on your interests. You can either ignore them, give them a Thumbs up/Favorite or a Thumbs Down. Each rating adds data to your profile, so the more you use it, the more interesting stuff it delivers. I feel like stumbleupon has opened my mind to many different areas that otherwise I would never be interested in. For example there was an animation of three girls (they had no features, it was just shadows), all standing side by side, with one leg slightly raised higher than the other. If you looked at the middle girl, they all appeared to be rotating in the same direction; however, if you looked at either the girl on the left or the girl on the right, the one you were looking at appeared to be rotating in the opposite direction. I can’t remember specifically, but I am almost positive that this was considered to be in the science category, a category that I would have never been interested in.
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