StumbleUpon is a socially moderated ‘channel surfing’ interface for recommending and finding cool websites. When you sign up you select a number of topics you are interested in, and a series of buttons are added to your browser’s toolbar. The most interesting one is the ‘Stumble!’ button which, based on your interests sends you to a random site. If you like a site you can give it a ‘thumbs up’ and its URL is added to your personal StumbleUpon blog and you can make a comment. The URL is also added to the pool of sites which can then be suggested to other users. If you find a site you like you can also see who else suggested it and look at their other suggestions.
I first read about StumbleUpon ages ago when Jill wrote about it. It took me a while to sign up because it doesn’t work with my regular browser, Safari so I downloaded Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is not bad but I find it struggles a bit with media rich sites so I still use Safari mostly.
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