Cognitive Labs

Brain Health Shuffle.

Whenever you click, you get a new idea to help your brain. Who knows what idea you will stumble upon? While you are playing games, you can surf through the latest scientific knowledge on the brain without cracking open a book or going to a tired health site.

Labels: brainhealth, click, stumbleupon

Congratulations to Stumbleupon for getting picked up by Ebay for 40M or so (rumored)

This is a service that got kickstarted vis-a-vis the Firefox extension. It allows users to "stumble" by hitting a button and randomly (but according to your pre-selected topical interest points) to get redirected to a site of interest, e.g. those interested in Medieval coins will see sites clustered around a similar theme.

Stumbleupon is a shot in the arm for niche-oriented websites. Guess Why.

Analogs: ipod Shuffle, also the concept is similar to 'traffic rotators' used by operators of the "bad neighborhoods" on the web in Google parlance, except the rotation is caused by random human "stumbles" and therefore nifty.

We're experimenting with a shuffle feature, but I can't tell you what it's for. Stumbleupon had around 1,400,000 users last summer (so did we) last time I checked they had 2,185,000 registered users whereas we have something like 2,029,000 of which half a million are pretty old, the rest are new. Tell more friends to join up right here where actually more than 50% of you do register and did so yesterday, which is pretty darn swell by any standard.

Labels: ebay, Google, stumbleupon