3 Awesome Sites for Stumbling Across the Best of the Web
StumbleUpon is a popular service that helps millions of people find interesting sites all over the web. Everyday thousands of sites are submitted to this service. We highly recommend StumbleUpon for finding new information on the web. However, If you're looking for more specific results, here are three other "stumbling" sites to help you find what you're looking for on the web.
BuddyStumbler
With social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Bebo, we find it a little confusing as to why you wouldn't just use their search engines to find a random friend or two. Nevertheless, BuddyStumbler aims to fill that space and help you stumble upon new friends. You can search for new people by interests, usernames, or "buddies of". Type in your keywords, sex, age, and zip code and BuddyStumbler will do the rest. Results will link to the user's BuddyStumbler profile and any of their instant messaging handles or social networks such as Flickr. All in all, you're guaranteed to find a new friend or two via BuddyStumbler.
Ticket Stumbler
Ticket Stumbler could turn out to be a time and money saver for some. Essentially, Ticket Stumbler aims to help you compare, find, and purchase tickets for sporting events. From regular tickets to season packages, you can find tickets for the following sporting events:
- NFL
- NCAA Football
- MLB
- NLH
- NBA
You can search for a ticket by team, venue, event, or location. The initial search results will contain the name of the event, the venue, date and time, and the lowest and priciest tickets available. Selecting an event and Ticket Stumbler will present you with a variety of ways to find a ticket at a price that you like. You can specify a maximum price, the number of tickets you'd like to purchase, your preferred ticket provider, and whether or not you'd like a parking/tailgate ticket to be included. We doubt you'll have a hard time stumbling upon the right ticket at the right price with Ticket Stumbler.
StumbleAudio
StumbleAudio is one of the ultimate music discovery services with over 2 million tracks availble to stumble through. Check out their charts for the most liked and disliked albums. See what other users are listening to the most or the most stumbled genres. StumbleAudio makes a great addition to other services such as Last.FM, Pandora, and iLike for music discovery.
Most of the Web at Your Fingertips
While none of these sites could replace StumbleUpon, they fill different niches that StumbleUpon may not be the best service for. We recommend them all for discovering the best and most interesting sections of the web. Let us know what else you're using to "stumble" through great sections of the web.
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TicketStumbler? That looks like one of many ticket-search affiliate sites - I don't see why it's listed; there seems to be no 'stumble' ie random aspect to it, and no social aspect to it, as one might expect from other social-discovery sites like stumbleupon.
What gives? Is this some kind of RWW affiliate site?
huh, interesting article - BuddyStumbler would be good one. Could be used for business too by searching interests :) :)
Ticketstumbler lists stubhub tickets and other marketplaces. Stubhub is a middle man and marks up tickets, they are just an expensive marketplace. Contrary to belief, stubhub is a place to buy tickets from brokers. I go to:
www.neco.com
I got there for all of my ticket needs. Their site is awesome, much more intuitive than ticket stumbler. They have seating charts that show exactly where you will be sitting and they are the source for the tickets on stubhub. I came across them because I read they were the largest seller / supplier on stubhub. Which means their tickets are cheaper. With a little research you can save a lot of money on tickets. It blows my mind that people use stubhub. The proof is there. Look at tickets on stubhub and then look at the same tickets on www.neco.com.
Hi Taylor, to be honest we're not really sure why were mentioned either (although we really appreciate it and the link :-D). We just launched 3 weeks ago and although we plan on having more social aspects in the future, you're right, we don't now. I can speculate that we were included because of our name, TicketStumbler, and because one can "stumble" on Tickets - even if the action isn't random.
We think of ourselves more as a Kayak or Expedia but for sports tickets, and soon, concert tickets. We have no affiliation with RWW that I know of - unless they want to buy us for 10 fobillion dollars :P.
Ben,
We don't just list market places; we list places like Ticket City, Barry's Tickets and Ace Ticket (soon) as well who are all very big sellers on Stubhub. Our goal is to decrease fees and prices by making all the ticket providers compete against each other (like what Expedia did for airline tickets).
We're huge fans of NECO too! To be honest we're trying to include them in our listings but have had problems getting a hold of their product manager. So if you know someone who works there please have them contact me: dan [at] ticketstumbler [dot] com. Thanks!
Best regards,
Dan
Cofounder
TicketStumbler
I will bet any amount of money that Ben Johnson works for NECO.
Googled: "Ben Johnson NECO"
Found this:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=487956
Ben Johnson owns NECO. So really you meant "my site is awesome. my tickets are cheaper".
To Ben's credit he did just email me in order to get NECO included in TicketStumbler's listings.
Wow, after all of the hating on StubHub, I just did a quick search for tickets on SH and Neco to the upcoming Seahawks game in SF...and it looks like SH is ten bucks cheaper.
Care to comment Ben?
TicketStumbler? What are you talking about... that's a TCKET site! The only thing it shares with other sites on the list is that it has "stumbler" in it. What a silly article...
hmmm. it strikes me that me.dium should be on this list, even though it doesn't have the apparently coveted "stumble" in its name.
Thank you very much for this information.
Alright, I just read the comments after mine, a little condescending, but here are my comments:
I was just trying to help. If you built something, knew a lot about it, and saw a post that was advertising a worse / more expensive alternative you would do the same. Next time I'll refrain from commenting on things I am connected to.
Just stupid. The stumbler apps listed here suck. Sorry, but they do.