StumbleUpon

I kept talking about something quite interesting in my recent posts. What is that? It’s StumbleUpon. Some of my favourite bloggers seem to be using this toolbar. What is StumbleUpon?

StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites. With a single click you can find and share cool sites matched to your interests.

I’m hooked on the thing, and rate it as the second most useful web browsing tool after Google itself -PCPro

 

– StumbleUpon Toolbar

You need to sign up, as usual. And, download a toolbar. Download? Don’t think about those annoying toolbars. This is a gift for netizen. You install toolbar and log in. In signup process, you need to choose the topics that interest you. Topics covers photography to cooking, internet to history.

Whenever you click ‘Stumble’ on your toolbar, it will bring you to a (totally) randomized page which would definitely catch you. Be prepared to organize your new bookmarks(favourites in IE). It will sometimes even navigate you to a deep-linked swf files or image files. (example)

How it works? Simply, by getting members contribute to it. Whenever a member (it may be ‘You’) came across a page that could generally catch his attention he can share it with other stumblers. If someone sees a page which features some optically illusive images (general ppl usually love to enjoy those images, rite?). Yeah.. that’s how it works. To learn more about it, click here.

Is it perfect? definitely not! Whenever I viewed a page and rate it as ‘I Like it!’, it should be save d under my account theoratically, shouldn’t it? But, I cannot search some pages that really attract me to surf again. Only some are found. And, you cannot delete a page you rated.

So, no longer needa wait for your favourite bloggers to tell you about interesting stuff on the net. Go get ‘em yourself!

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