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Monday, June 20, 2011

Stumble Upon

a. Product Information:

*You can access stumble upon though the URL: http://www.stumbleupon.com

*This site is consisted of two founders:

Garrett Camp, Founder & CEO
Garrett has guided StumbleUpon’s development since 2001, from inception to more than 15 million registered users. StumbleUpon is now the largest personalized content discovery engine on the web, delivering more than 1 billion personalized recommendations per month.

Geoff Smith, Founder & CTO
Geoff has wide ranging business and technical skills. Geoff comes to StumbleUpon with a diversity of experience, including product management at a small internet firm, coordination at an environmental NPO, and software development at a company that produces management and accounting software for government and law offices. His education includes Computer Science at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

*Stumble Upon is a site used mainly for browsing, you can search photos, videos, news and files about things that you are interested in.  By just inputting keywords, the site will sort all the needed information and will display it to your screen.  In order to utilize the services of this site, you must first sign up for a membership, but be reminded that registration is free; another thing is that you can use your facebook account to login. 
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b. Demo Video:


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d. How students can make the most out of the software (increase their productivity) for their work in school:

When it comes to homework or projects, college students are more accustomed to using the internet for browsing the information needed to finish their assignments.  The internet is a place where information is very abundant, because of this most of the time browsing consumes a lot of time.  But with this site by just stating your interest or a keyword of sorts, the information will already be sorted; thereby decreasing the time needed to spend in browsing.  Using this site, students will be able to obtain a lot of information for a short period of time.  This site can be accessed through any device that has internet, in can be either your mobile phone or the computer; browsing has never been this easy.

e. Product evaluation of the group with respect to productivity

Stumble Upon is definitely a site that observes productivity, for it contains the key points of being productive.  With its high-tech sorting capabilities it can make browsing as efficiently as possible; in spite of this the information that is given to you is pretty much accurate and informative, and using this will allow you to deliver your point more effectively.  The website can be accessed anytime anywhere, you only need to find a device that is associated with internet and you can already access all the information of this site.  With this site you can decrease the time consumed in browsing; you won’t be able to find any browsing site faster and more efficient than this.

  

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