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StumbleUpon – you know, the one you are so happy to use to drive traffic to your site – belongs to eBay.

TechCrunch reports that eBay is trying to sell off SU are at least distressing if we are to consider the potential buyers Microsoft and Google.

Stumpedia.com is a social search engine that relies on human

participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web.

Obviously most people are going to ask how much traffic it sends. On that score it is not brilliant in comparison to Digg or even StumbleUpon, of course not, it is early days, but it does send a bit. It fact for me it has performed better than Reddit and Sphinn, which are sites often recommended in the SMO space

I assert that self-promotion is vital to the launch of any new social media endeavor. Whether a marketer or an individual, whether starting a blog or making videos, you have to be your own #1 fan and evangelist. There are plenty of people out there who will love your content, but you have to help them notice it. There is nothing wrong with this, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. However, there are some things you can do to help obfuscate the paradox and take those vital steps to gaining a foothold in the wild west of the internet.

Over the past 7 months, Junta42 has produced a continuous stream of relevant content, now adding up to a knowledge base of close to a 1000 articles. With the recent addition of the top content marketing blog list and the consequent increase of activity, it’s high time for a discussion with Joe about the emerging discipline of content marketing, and how it is supported by Junta42.

Here’s a collection of 115 social bookmark and news sites ranked by PageRank, number of links and value of each site.

We used dnScoop to gather the data for all these sites. This is what the dnScoop data is based on:

Of course - this post doesn’t really illustrate that StumbleUpon is better than Digg or that Digg is better than StumbleUpon. In fact, if anything it shows how they compliment each other quite nicely - I wouldn’t say no to being featured heavily on both!