Stumbleupon Firefox bar gets an update
Published by on November 27th, 2008
I just installed Version 3.28 of the Stumbleupon toolbar for Firefox and thought it worth mentioning on the basis of a particular additional feature.
If you are not familiar with the service, Stumbleupon is a service where a connected network of users submit their favourite web content which is then fed to other users - based on their subject preferences - which they can then vote with a thumbs up, or a thumbs down. It’s a great way to discover new stuff based on popularity amongst the user network.
The new toolbar in particular offers greater control over what you might see in the future by not only enabling you to give a site a thumbs down, but also to give Stumbleupon some idea why it’s a thumbs down. Options are: “Not-for-me” (the standard thumbs down), “Stumbled this before”, “Too much like this lately”. There’s also a command to block a specific site from being presented in the future.
These added communications smack of Stumbleupon wanting a higher level of feedback to improve the web content they feed users. That’s a very good thing as it can sometimes be frustrating when it appears the algorithm is getting your selections all wrong.
Around ten other fixes and enhancement have also been included. You can see the changelog here.
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