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Simply put, it just wasn’t working.  Too many corporate strings attached to allow StumbleUpon to have the creative leverage they needed to make their service compete with the social media big boys.  So today, it was announced that the original investors of the company have opted to buy their shares back from EBay.  Simply put, StumbleUpon will become a start-up company once again – a place they probably need to be: (thanks to TechCrunch for their excellent story)

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/13/ebay-unacquires-stumbleupon/

I for one applaud the move and think it will be great for StumbleUpon’s service in the long run…their traffic certainly needs a turn around: