In the past we've said how much we enjoy StumbleUpon. It's a great way to find new sites, and it's a definitely a great way to pass the time by when you're bored or have a few minutes to spare. We've even used it to find new tips and sites to share here on CyberNet. It has always worked like a charm, so we've never really put much thought into how it works. Recently

If you're a regular reader of CyberNet, you probably know of my love for StumbleUpon, the popular service which helps users discover and share web sites. I've been a fan ever since I installed the Firefox extension for the very first time a couple of years ago. From the time the service launched until July of 2006, it was available only to Firefox users.  Then they added support for Internet Explorer users, but everybody

The new year has just begun and if 2008 is anything like 2007, we should expect a bunch of acquisitions in the tech world.  As I heard someone say recently, acquisitions should be considered the lottery for geeks, except the odds of "winning" are much higher than the actual lottery. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and others have been swiping up start-up after

MyFive is a new feature here at CyberNet where we list off five things about anything we decide deserves being listed! To get the ball rolling this week, I’ve got a list of five reasons why StumbleUpon rocks! It’s one of my favorite social sites and a great way to waste pass the time by when you’re bored or have a few minutes to spare.

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Need a way to waste some time today? Checkout Fichey. It just launched and it serves as a way for you to browse through sites that are currently popular. You can also browse through sites that were popular previously by selecting a date on their calendar. You’ll be served pages from sites like del.icio.us, Digg, Downfly, Reddit, and StumbleUpon.

It’s flash based and definitely looks “nice,” but I don’t see

I always love the “Best Website” lists because there’s usually a handful of sites that I haven’t heard of, or paid much attention to. Time magazine has put together their list of the 50 Best Websites of 2007. They explain it as their picks of “what’s new and exciting about the Web right now.”

You can get involved by taking their poll and ranking each of the sites on a scale of 1 to 100. After

According to TechCrunch, eBay is all set to acquire StumbleUpon, a popular web discovery site which helps users find new sites, and more recently videos. It’s often described as “channel surfing” on the web.Rumor has it that the price is anywhere from $40–45 million or higher, and Google and AOL were also said to be in on the talks.

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