StumbleUpon
Still hungry for more social networking? How about stumbling through the Internet?
StumbleUpon is a useful tool for finding what interest you on the internet without having to search through thousands of search engine results.
StumbleUpon is more than a search engine. It works more like a “recommendation engine.”
Oncea user signs up, they are presented with a large list of interests and asked to select every subject that they are interested in.
After selecting their interests, a user clicks the button to “stumble”onto a web page. This is not just a random web page. This page is selected according to the users pre-defined interests as well as recommendations from users with the same interests.
When a user arrives at a webpage, the user can give the page a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down.”StumbleUpon records the user’s rating and in the future will either provide more or less of the same type of page based on the rating. If a user does not have a preference, he or she can simply press “stumble” to go to a different page.
Pages that a user has given a “thumbs up” to are saved in the user’s profile as favorites that can be revisited later.
For a more social experience, users can find their friends on StumbleUpon to share “stumbled” websites with.
And a StumbleUpon toolbar is available that allows users to add a new page to StumbleUpon, rate the page they are visiting, and even stumble through videos or individual sites such as The Onion and CNN.
Interested in stumbling? Head over to
stumbleupon.com and click the “Sign up now” button.
Enter a username, e-mail, and password and click “Join now.” You will be asked to select your interests and finish the registration process. Once you are finished, you can start your stumble through the Internet.
If you are using Firefox, click
here to get the StumbleUpon toolbar to enhance your experience.
This is just a taste of social networking basics. Each of these three examples can be used far beyond the initial steps presented here.
And beyond these three, there are many more websites and tools in the social realm.
Happy networking!
(Information from Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and comScore contributed to this report.)
