As expected, eBay has purchased StumbleUpon for about $75 million.“StumbleUpon is a great fit within our goal of pioneering new communities based on commerce and sustained by trust,†said Michael Buhr, senior director, eBay. “StumbleUpon’s downloadable toolbar provides an engaging and unique experience to its users, but it is the similarities in our approaches to the concept of community that make it such a compelling addition to eBay.†eBay reportedly bought StumbleUpon for their 2.3 million users community, who shares the discovery content based on personal preferences.
Big companies, especially google, are trying to gain monopoly over the internet. Is there any hope for small site owners? Now Yahoo and MSN are available in our local language too. With their money and employee strength, they will be able provide better content to the users which means sites like mine will lose visitors
this is old news happened weeks back. google has blogspot, so ebay had to keep up with the gang. It lacked a social place.
Ebay and SU... Hmmmm... Why? I guess they could look at pages people stumbled and offer related products on Ebay...
Yeah, expect to start stumbling on lots of ebay ads now. I wonder if they want to buy one of my sites for $75 million... Oh, I can dream.