The StumbleUpon browser bar to discover new semi-random sites (the Google Toolbar these days has a somewhat similar feature).
EBay snatched up social website discovery/ bookmarking engine StumbleUpon for a reported ~$75 million (this sound like peanuts considering some of the recent acquisitions by other tech companies such as Microsoft and Google). StumbleUpon must have an immense user base, judging from the referrer traffic it sends to sites*.
It"s unclear to me how this belongs with the eBay product range. Ebay says it"s a fit because of their goal of "pioneering new communities based on commerce and sust ...
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