What is Stumbleupon

Stumbleupon is more than social bookmarking website but to make it easier for you as non Stumbler to understand what does really Stumbleupon is, let us explain it
1-    As a social bookmarking website. If you have already used www.digg.com or www.reddit.com you will stumbleupoin  social book marketing section here:
http://buzz.stumbleupon.com/
Basically, nothing much different at the first glance, a list of news sorted by reviews and time and many other factors. But I like their tags cloud to the right it is really handy and makes navigation much easier upon the visitor interest
2-    Stumbleupon also has other www.myspace.com  type features where you can associate your account with other “friends” via the stumbleupon.com site. This allows you to see updates they make to their webpage, you can see also what they are stumpling.

3-    Stumbleupon toolbar is may be what makes Stumbleupon really different form other social bookmarking website, stumbleupon users have the ability to give websites a thumbs up or a thumbs down as they surf the internet.
Stumbleupon.com tracks the votes and then uses that information later when a user clicks on a stumble button on that same toolbar, stumble also This will take them to random webpages that other users have given a thumbs ups for.

The stumble button in Stumble toolbar doesn’t actually randomly take you to a webpage, it uses:
-    The preference in your profiles especially your interests
-    The interests of your friends
-    What kind of websites your are stumbling (tags are important)
-    The behavior of your friends will play a role in what page Stumbleupon will take you the next time you click the stumble button in the tool bar

Stumble it!

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