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Stumbleupon Adds My Shares – Sharing History

Stumbleupon slipped out a new interface feature during the last 24 hours, and whilst I wouldn't regard it as ground breaking, it is actually useful, though they could have made it a little better.

My Shares

The My Shares feature is hidden in your inbox

Clicking through reveals a history of messages you have previously received through the "Send To" interface on the toolbar. If you haven't yet viewed items that have been sent to you, they won't be shown on this page.

I must admit it was a little bit of a challenge grabbing a screenshot which didn't contain any self-promotional messages as

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7 StumbleUpon Problems I Would Love To See Fixed

It is great that Stumbleupon are starting to add a few useful features to improve usability, so I thought I would compile a short list of some of the things that have really been bugging me over the last year. Whilst I have talked about StumbleUpon in the past, I have never written one of my "full reviews".

1. Dead Stumbles

Tim earlier today wrote about how content can end up in "The Stumbleupon Graveyard" through various bugs. It is actually quite a major problem that can prevent exceptional content from gaining the exposure to the Stumbleupon community it might

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Nofollow Killed Google Social Graph API 3 Years Ago

Lets face it, I have social profiles all over the web and I am or have been an active participant in tons of conversations on blogs and forums.

3 years ago Google introduced rel="nofollow", very similar to rel="me" , rel="friend" and other XFN and FOAF standards. Today Google are championing their new API with the slogan "URLs Are People Too"

3 years ago that was true, now URLs on many (most) places where people congregate on the web are no longer "people" because in a supposed attempt to combat comment spam, Google encouraged major sites to use rel="nofollow" making the

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Best Of Ebay – Ebay Sellers Christmas Opportunity

I know that lots of my readers sell stuff through Ebay, in fact many of them make a full time living doing it.

Ebay have now launched their own Social News site to highlight the weird and wonderful best items for sale on Ebay, past and present.

What is strange is that it doesn't appear on their community "sneak peek" though it is still in beta.

There also doesn't appear to be any mention of it on the Ebay blog.

How much traffic a site like this could drive really depends on how much Ebay decide to promote it, but it if

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25 Reasons You Get Thumbs Up

Muhammad Saleem yesterday wrote a list of the reasons that he might thumb someone down whilst using Stumbleupon. I thought it would be a good exercise to come up with as many creative reasons why someone might Stumble one of your articles.

  1. To say thanks, great post
  2. To test stumbleupon algorithm
  3. To be the first to discover a new site
  4. To build up the strength of a page linking to them
  5. To gain traffic both short and long term from the 3rd party
  6. To benefit from multiple tier referral programs
  7. To bookmark a future resource
  8. To build up content
  9. To
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Traffic Or Topical Community – What Comes First?

I have been discussing various kinds of blogging community widgets as a core topic for close to 10 months now, first Mybloglog, then Bumpzee, and shortly after Blogcatalog.

From every single one of those communities I have possibly gained more traffic than I have given them in return, though it is very difficult to judge exactly when you start gaining traffic, and maybe that isn't really the point. You can't easily track RSS clicks to a site unless you destroy the SEO advantages of syndication by having nice clean links and ultimately you hope for people to discover you once, and

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Stumbleupon Algorithm Unearthed?

How does the Stumbleupon algorithm really work.? I have no idea, and I doubt anyone else really does know for sure, other than core programmers at Stumbleupon. I do know one thing though, Tim is probably the person who has spent the most time studying Stumbleupon, analytically.

Whilst I really appreciate facts, where there are a lack of facts I appreciate discussions that at least try to create models based upon extensive research data

You might find this a little geeky, but for those that like delving into how things might work, Tim's modelling of the Stumbleupon algorithm is just pure gold.

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Sphinn Support – Antisocial (SEO Friendly Sociable) Wordpress Plugin

I have just added support for Sphinn to my hacked version of the popular Sociable plugin.

For those unfamiliar with Antisocial, these are the differences

  • All links have nofollow added – this might sound strange coming from someone who strongly supports the removal of nofollow from comments, but there is no logical purpose having a followable link to a social bookmark site that just points to a submission form

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Choosing The Right Social Bookmarking Sites

Providing social bookmarking buttons can be a service to your visitors, and help highlight your best content on various social networks and news services, but you must think carefully about which ones you include, and where.

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StumbleUpon Quintuplet From The King Of Blogging Gobshites

Yes that title makes total sense, but you will have to keep reading to find out exactly why.

Stumble Popup

How often do you read a great blog post and forget to share it with your friends? The Stumbleupon toolbar is often a long mouse move away, and most people don’t use shortcuts when browsing, because they can’t remember them, or because of conflicts between different toolbars and other applications that are running on a system by default.

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Google Crap(s) vs StumbleUpon – Personalized Recommendations

DiceIt is a rare occurrence when Google create a product, or new feature to an existing product that isn’t very good, but now they have created… Google Crap(s)

I haven’t played around with the new Google Personalized Recommendations on Google Toolbar before today, so I thought the results would be interesting.

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I Bet You Missed Some of These (March 07)

These are some highlights (in my opinion) of some of the content I have created over the last month. If I have missed anything out which you enjoyed or gained some value from, please let others know in the comments.

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Do You Stumble?

I have been using StumbleUpon a fair amount over the last couple of months, usually at the end of a day when I just want to wind down or gather ideas for site designs.

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