Serendipitous Chat has received significant traffic in the last few days. It has dropped substantially since its peak, but there is still some nice traffic. We appreciate all the attention and the people who enjoy the site. Our reports show that while visitor counts have been declining, the number of “return visitors” is at 45% for today. That’s great for us to see… We will continue to improve the site and features for you all to enjoy.
Serendipity of another sort made the news over at Read/Write Web. They have a nice post and interview with Garrett Camp, Chief Architect and co-founder of StumbleUpon. If you haven’t already, you should go check out the interview and definitely check out StumbleUpon. It is highly recommended.
… Garrett muses on the serendipity of SU and the “social interaction that emerges from using StumbleUpon” …
– Read/Write Web
Update (2006.10.17 @ 9:45 PDT): Just saw this post over at Chris Pirillo’s blog about “paid placement” of sites on StumbleUpon. We don’t have enough information to make a call on this one. You can decide for yourselves and read the excerpt from the email Chris received.
Where Am I Widget/Service Discontinued
We will be taking the Where Am I Image Widget service offline sometime today as previously announced. All other services and widgets will continue as normal. Our offerings will evolve with the changing landscape in order to serve our users better and to fill any gaps that are identified.
Performance and Stability
Our performance improvements are ongoing and we have made good progress in various area. One benefit of discontinuing an unused service is that it frees up our limited resources. We will continue our efforts in providing stable quality services.
Stickam Contacts Widget/Service Preview
The Stickam Contacts service has been in preview mode for a couple of weeks now. As usual, we encourage everyone to review and provide feedback, comments or criticisms. Your contributions are always appreciated and help us improve.
StumbleUpon
Stumbled onto Programmer Meet Designer. Seems like an interesting site and definitely fills a nice niche. Being primarily developers with little creative talent, something like this is of special interest to us. Since we just came across this site, we do not have any comments. Have any of you used this site? Any comments or recommendations? We would like to know what you all think about PMD. Feel free to post a comment or email us directly.
We came across a nice little distraction while stumbling around during lunch. “A collection of strange links on Google.com” provided for an interesting read, at least for us. You decide for yourselves…
Not to spoil it for you all… But… Google has finally confirmed what we have been told as kids. The moon is really made of cheese.
