StumbleUpon

Earlier this month, StumbleUpon started showcasing their new homepage design, when they touted their “Google + Twitter” social search. Now they’ve gone through the rest of the site to make it more consistent (less customizable), easy to understand and streamlined. Read Write Web reports: The new interface is streamlined and more social with an updated relationship system. [...]  

Okay internet ninjas, can you help me figure out what the crap happened to all this static website's traffic? At the beginning of February '09, visits dropped to about a quarter of what they once were and stayed there, literally overnight.. The culprit looks to be StumbleUpon - referrals went from quadruple digits to doubles even though there was absolutely no change in the site or its (non-existent) marketing. Though I've read up on SU, I...  

"Maggwire.com makes discovering magazine content a personalized experience. Utilizing social intelligence, our system recommends magazine articles you will enjoy reading from over 600 magazine titles." More on how it works. They are just out of private beta and apparently will soon be offering a premium version with content from subscriptions sites.  

One of the most useful aspects of social media has been its power to help people discover people, content, and ideas that they would have otherwise missed. Born from that shared desire for discovery has been an abundance of incredible web communities. Some like Slashdot focus on technology, while others such as Twitter are mainstream open platforms for sharing. Out of all of these communities though, a few stand out due to their highly...  

Diggstr combines Digg and StumbleUpon features If you are a fan of Digg and StumbleUpon services, you would love Diggstr. Diggstr uses the stories that are highlighted on Digg and makes them... ...  

We’ve seen some epic battles in our weekly Web Faceoff series, where we put opposing social media and tech tools into the Colosseum and have them go to war for your vote. Our very first faceoff, Firefox vs. Chrome, had over 8000 votes, while only 31 votes separated Last.fm vs. Pandora. None of those battles compared to the clash that occurred this week, though. We asked you, the readers, to choose between Digg, Stumbleupon, or Reddit for...  

Here at Disinformation we’re big fans of StumbleUpon as a great way to find interesting content across the web. We have a profile at disinfo.stumbleupon.com and encourage disinfo.com visitors to join our “Stumble ring” to give the thumbs up on what stories you enjoy. If you are a Firefox user, there’s a great StumbleUpon Add-on that makes using StumbleUpon a cinch. Hope you see more of you there, and please keep commenting on the stories on...  

If you want to learn about StumbleUpon and what it is, read my previous article about Stumbleupon traffic quality.. StumbleUpon is my friend. In a weird, they-just-showed-up-and-were-nice-to-me kind of way. I'll write an article about, ...  

Starting today, social bookmarking service StumbleUpon is allowing users to beta test a shiny, happy redesign of their site. The new interface is streamlined and more social with an updated relationship system. A focus on consistency (e.g., limiting user control of visual elements) and removal of clutter (e.g., presenting tags in a drop-down menu rather than a cloud) characterize the design changes made. Also, a few tweaks to group sharing...  

A Chrome extension that invites you to discover the best of the web  

I noticed that one of our local experts, Webnauts, shares his links through Stumbleupon. In a recent example, his URL from Twitter (which...  

In this week's Movable Type Monday, we've got what's new in MT5 Release Candidate 2, news about the Melody project, a StumbleUpon plugin, and more.  

A Songbird add-on that creates a new toolbar in order to access StumbleUpon with ease  

A Firefox add-on that allows you to meet people that have the same interests as you do  

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