StumbleUpon is independent once again.
Two years after Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith sold StumbleUpon to Ebay, they’ve rounded up some investors and bought StumbleUpon back.  YOINK!
Earlier this year, StumbleUpon hit 7 million registered users, which was then 50 percent higher than most estimates of Twitter’s users.  Twitter’s numbers have since skyrocketed, leaving StumbleUpon struggling to [...]

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Foxmarks is one of the most useful add-ons for Firefox that exists today. Now, Foxmarks is changing its name to Xmarks.
Not only does the tool help you synchronize all of your bookmarks and passwords between multiple instances of Firefox on different computers, but now it also uses this massive amount of user-generated data to create [...]

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Ma.gnolia is having one of those days.
The popular bookmarking service has gone completely offline, experiencing data corruption that “will take days, not hours,” to rectify. Here’s the full scoop from Ma.gnolia’s Larry Haff:
Dear Ma.gnolia Community Members or Visitor,
Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 31st, Ma.gnolia experienced every web service’s worst nightmare: data corruption [...]

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Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious and a Yahoo exec until June of last year, has now joined several ex-Yahoo employees at Google.
In a phone call Schachter stated that he hasn’t been assigned to a specific duty yet and did not state who he’s working for at Big G.
He did confirm, however, that [...]

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Traffikd has put together a very nice list of niche social media sites.  It seems that, in this modern age, there is a social media site for just about every interest.
Here are some of the newest and best:
Design Bump: A niche site for web and graphic designers
Pretty Social: Niche social news site for women (fashion, [...]

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Well, if you recall this story from earlier this month, there is a lesson to be learned here.  If you think you can outsmart Digg, think again…
“There’s more user unrest in the community of popular social news site Digg, after the all-time number 3 ranked user Zaibatsu, a.k.a. Reg Saddler, was banned for alleged multiple [...]

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If you’ve got an internet marketing blog, you should be using Sphinn.  Period.
If you know Digg, you can say Sphinn is Digg (their names are similar too). Like Digg, you vote for stories, which act as a sort of “online bookmark”, and submit them in the same way as Digg. Although Sphinn is geared more towward webmasters, any [...]

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