Another great time-waster: Stumbleupon

[Frank The Bunny]

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles.

Web pages are presented when the user clicks the "Stumble!" button on the browser's toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user's ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests. Users can rate or choose not to rate any Web page with a thumbs up or thumbs down, and clicking the Stumble button resembles "channel-surfing" the Web. StumbleUpon also allows their users to indicate their interests from a list of nearly 500 topics to produce relevant content for the user. There is also one-click blogging built in as well.

Toolbar versions exist for Firefox, Mozilla Application Suite and Internet Explorer, but also works with some independent Mozilla-based browsers. A third party toolbar has also been created for Opera.

[In The Margins]

Why must everything be rated these days? Can no one think for themselves?

[Frank The Bunny]

Why must everything be rated these days? Can no one think for themselves?

I believe you missed the point.

It's a browser plug-in, which is sort of a Pandora for websites. You select your interests, and click the "Stumble" button. The browser surfs to a website. You can give it a "thumbs up" or a "thumbs down".

What I like is that Stumbleupon takes me to sites I never would have known about, had I not used it.

I could care less about the ratings of others. I just like the random surfing.