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Monday, June 21, 2010

Stumbleupon grabs 2 x-Google employees

Discovery engine startup StumbleUpon today announced it has hired two new directors to expand its sales and partnership teams, both previous Google employees.

Anthony Napolitano, a former key member of the sales teams for several of Google’s products, including TV Ads, Analytics, Checkout and AdWords, will be joining the company as Director of Sales.

Oliver Hsiang, until recently manager of strategic partner development at Google and former product manager at Yahoo, Microsoft and Chipshot, is StumbleUpon’s new Director of Strategic Partnerships.

In a press release, StumbleUpon founder and CEO Garrett Camp boasts about the double steal from Google and says the company has hired 15 new team members in the last three months alone.

Looks like StumbleUpon is faring well after about a year after its spin-off from eBay – the ‘social search engine’ company recently also reached 10 million registered users.

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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Monthly site review (Link Shorterners)

We though with all the recent link shorterner drama we would review well, link sourterners.
5. Su.pr
Su.pr is a great URL shorterner it is owned and runned by Stumbleupon. You can post a message to forward to sites like Twitter and Facebook along with your link which is why we like it so much!

4. Ruly
Ruly is a smaller link shorterner, we like it manly because you can look and see what are popular links shortened by Ruly, as well a recent links. You can also click random and it will show you a list of random links shortened by Ruly.

3. is.gd
Is.gd allows you to shorten links quickly and easly, it is a great service because of its customer service it also tells you how many links have been shortened toatle.

2. ow.ly
Ow.ly is a great shorterner because it lets you shorten a link without an account or you can create an account and shorten photos videos and servral other links. You can alos log in using your Twitter and share the link on Twitter.

1. Go2.me
Go2.me has very easy sharing option as well as the fact you can start a discussion while your shorteneing a link. They also tell you the days most popular link and amout of links shortened that day.

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