Hello to Friends from StumbleUpon.com
Hello! Thanks for dropping by.
This morning, a kind soul recommended this blog to StumbleUpon.com and we have been experiencing a flood of hits since then.
It is really astonishing to see the blog stats go crazy. I thought my eyes were bluffing me, but we were indeed getting 10 times our previous record high. It made our traffic graph look like a flat line with a sharp spike at the end.
So thanks very much, I really appreciate it. Hope you will stick around and check out the older (but still relevant) posts. Don’t forget to add our RSS feed to your favourite reader or join our email subscription. 
I’ve heard others talk about the Digg effect, where a web site featured prominently on Digg.com can experience a surge in traffic. But experiencing it today really made me aware of how powerful the Internet is. In our own way, everyone has the power to influence opinions and decision.
So I’ve added Digg buttons to some of the more important (and hopefully better written) articles (such as this one), please do click on them to vote so that others may read them too.
Thanks again for your support and encouragement!
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Shea Gunther said,
June 17, 2007 at 10:16 am
I’m glad I was able to send some Stumble traffic your way.
IMHO Stumble traffic is 10X better than what you get from Digg. It’s not as severe a load on your servers and ends up sending traffic for a long time after the initial first wave(s).
And Stumblers are nicer people too, the best group of social bookmarkers on the net. Diggers can be jerks.
Shea
Hun Boon said,
June 17, 2007 at 10:29 am
Hi Shea, good to hear from you.
Well the traffic has gone back to pre-Stumble levels, but that was what I expected. Server load isn’t a problem because I’m on the WordPress.com servers, but always nice to know that Stumblers are such wonderful folks.
Cheers!
Hun Boon
StumbleUpon said,
August 17, 2008 at 4:41 am
Thanks for the informative post.. and thanks for adding our comment to the blog. I am subscribing to your feed so I don\’t miss the next post!