Back in the days when I began using Stumbleupon I always thought that the website itself was a bit messy. Plus there was not really a good search to find websites related to topics that you were looking for. This has changed with the recent redesign of the Stumbleupon website. An account is still required [...]

Tags: stumbleupon
Categories: The Web

You need to search on multiple search engines if you truly want to research a search term, as opposed to simply finding a solution to it. Some users might think that searching in Google is enough to find all the relevant information about a search term and while that may be true more often than [...]

Tags: bing, del.icio.us, firefox, firefox-add on, Google, google search, google unified search, stumbleupon, wikipedia, wolfram alpha
Categories: Browsing, Google, firefox

Oh noes, not another URL shortening service. That’s probably the first reaction of many users who read the announcement that Stumbleupon’s URL shortening service Su.pr is now available publicly. As if there were not enough services of this kind already. There are however a few aspects of su.pr that make it quite unique in its [...]

Tags: facebook, stumbleupon, su.pr, twitter, url shortening, webmaster
Categories: Online Services

I use Digg (on occasion), StumbleUpon and sometimes Google News. The New York Times and Techmeme satisfy the rest of my needs.
I didn’t really think I could be interested in yet another crowd-powered news aggregating website… Mixx, Reddit, Regator, Social Median,  Soshable, Propeller, Sphinn even… whether they’re the next Digg I have no idea… but [...]

Tags: credibility, digg, google news, news, newscred, stumbleupon, techmeme
Categories: Online Services

The new Stumbleupon toolbar is now compatible with Firefox 3 and the developers have added an interesting function to the toolbar. Are you stumbling a lot of sites and use the Stumbleupon toolbar regularly ? You might be delighted to hear that you can know export the stumbled websites to your Firefox bookmarks.
The process can [...]

Tags: bookmarks, firefox, firefox 3, stumbleupon, stumbleupon toolbar
Categories: Browsing, Uncategorized, firefox

I don’t like to install a lot of toolbars in Firefox (or Opera) because they tend to decrease the screen size that is available for the website. Sure, there is a way to display and hide the toolbars whenever I need them but this is not that practical and I tend to forget about them pretty fast.

Tags: discover, internet, stumbleupon, websites
Categories: Cool, Entertainment, The Web

Fichey finally offers a new approach for the crowded web 2.0 community by giving everyone access to the back catalogue of popular social news and bookmarking websites such as Digg, Delicious and Stumbleupon. This is just one approach of Fichey but the most important one.

Tags: del.icio.us, digg, fichey, popular sites, stumbleupon, web 2.0
Categories: Browsing, The Web, firefox