eBay Acquires StumbleUpon - Just released. It’s going to be the biggest discussion next week. US$75 to buy out the community web giant is quite a nice move. Now eBay owns more than 2.3millions users. StumbleUpOn.com is well known as a community site that allows user to discover a new web site and rate the sites.

“StumbleUpon is a great fit within our goal of pioneering new communities based on commerce and sustained by trust,” said, Michael Buhr, senior director, eBay. “StumbleUpon’s downloadable toolbar provides an engaging and unique experience to its users, but it is the similarities in our approaches to the concept of community that make it such a compelling addition to eBay.”

eBay also bought Skype.com a while back. I would be guessing that these two new member of eBay money maker will make eBay on top of the auction and e-commerce game. With huge user base community power, eBay can easy create a new way to weight in their service, auction items and communicate using Skype between each other.

One other thoughts on this are the advertisement for auction items. Now there are many auction bid advertisement that are embedded in the blog and web site. With the new SumbleUpon rating system, eBay can easy embedded their own advertisement into the community site. You won’t be surprise that you will get advertisement soon on your Skype calls or text messaging. There will be a text based advertisement ticker running like stock ticker in your Skype client and StumbUpon web site.

What all of us, bloggers, get from this deal? We will have a new way to make money on our web site. Also, we can find a new way to sell our web space and promote our web site into the world largest auction world. It’s going to be interesting that what eBay will do to the StumbleUpon tool bar?

What’s your imagination? What do you discover from this $75M take over? Leave you comments here.

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