StumbleUpon, the personalized discovery engine has hit a serious growth spurt. In the past 16 months, the company has doubled its user base to 20 million people who “stumble upon” interesting web pages that the site has selected. StumbleUpon is now said to drive more traffic to websites than Facebook. READ MORE
Web publishing platform Wix.com announced the launch of WixMobile, a free click-and-create platform that lets users quickly and easily publish sites that are optimized for viewing on mobile devices with no coding necessary. READ MORE
If you’ve ever had a blog you likely know the feeling of occasionally not knowing what to write. A new blogging platform called Percolate seeks to solve that problem by tapping into your RSS and Twitter feeds, culling content based on your interests, and offering you the ability to share your thoughts on subjects with friends, explains Austin Carr for FastCompany. READ MORE
Many still haven’t accessed Google+ for the first time, but the company is apparently hiding even more features for its new social network. A closer examination of Google+’s code reveals a number of mentions to “Google Games” and “Google Questions,” according to Engadget. READ MORE
Exactly one week ago, we reported that WordPress.com was leading Tumblr in blogs hosted by about 1.6 million, but that the gap was closing quickly. Tumblr wasted no time, officially passing WordPress.com yesterday to claim the blog hosting crown. READ MORE
Social networking sites are on the rise, but it’s the rate of this growth that is most surprising. In the last year alone, social networking use increased by 25 percent, and a new report from web analytics firm comScore says the average online user now spends one out of every six minutes on social sites. READ MORE
Popular blogging platform WordPress is quickly closing in on the 20 million hosted blogs mark, but the company shouldn’t celebrate just yet. One of its prime competitors, New York-based social blogging platform Tumblr, is closing in on WordPress with 18.4 million total hosted blogs of its own. According to Crenk, Tumblr will overtake WordPress “very soon.” READ MORE
How are people finding your web site? Which key words are luring them there? What design elements might be turning them off? As Mashable’s Meghan Peters points out, Google Analytics makes it easy for anyone to track and analyze loads of data that can help improve a site’s performance. Here’s how to get started using it. READ MORE
