For the initiated, Stumble Upon is a service which displays millions of different user-submitted webpages.
Users sign up for an account and then download the toolbar which will then display in their browser. Whenever they find a web page they like, they can click the “like” button. There is also a “dislike” button for the alternative opinion. Lastly there is a “Stumble” button which will bring up a suggested website that someone else has marked as “like”.
The more you use the service, the more accurate the suggestions become for you and as someone who has been using it for a few years now I always end up finding some amazing articles, photos and resources. It;s not just a great entertainment tool for finding the best sites out there, but because all the sites are human-edited, I like to use it as a search engine too, knowing that the top sites will have been “liked” by loads of people.
Because it is so easy to click the “like” button in your browser at any point in time it is also a super-simple way to record the websites that you like as you come across them. And being a web 2.0 site, you also have a profil page at SU which records every site you rate - either as “like” or “dislike”.
Stumble Upon is therefore the easiest and most enjoyable way I have personally found to life stream my web favourites as they happen to other interested individuals. Why not give it a try today?
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