Just a quick update on the great effects of StumbleUpon. While, many may look at this traffic and scoff at how common and low it is. For me and my personal sites, it’s a huge amount of traffic (though, the site I work on at my day job pulls in approx. 1 million uniques a [...]

First, if you haven’t heard of StumbleUpon, check it out right now at StumbleUpon.com. In short, it’s a free service that lets web surfers rate websites with a thumbs up or thumbs down. It also allows you to “stumble” through their massive directory of websites that others have stumbled upon. All of this is done [...]

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I need a new laptop. The one I have is an old, clunky, power-hungry, hot, slow, heavy mess of a laptop and I’m quite ready for a technology update. Unfortunately, I don’t have the spare cash to get the laptop I want. My wife and I have recently paid down a fair amount of credit [...]