New StumbleUpon v4 - Simpler, Searchable and More Social

    StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking that help you bookmark all websites include thumbnail. With toolbar for browser, you can easily save and share any site that you visited. Today, StumbleUpon is now completely switching from old to new verison, StumbleUpon v4. New StumbleUpon has a new interface, which is believed that simpler, searchable and more social.

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What New?

Simpler:

Our goal was to make the site and the StumbleUpon Add-on easier to use and more intuitive for visitors and users.  We’ve improved site navigation, and navigation within User Profiles, to make it easier and faster to find what you’re looking for. We also think it just looks a lot nicer.

Searchable:

We’ve enhanced Search using community ratings and reviews.   Now you’ll have the ability to Search either within your favorites, your friend’s favorites, or the entire site to discover more specific pages on a topic.

More Social:

We’ve made it easier for you to find the people you know (your real-life friends) on StumbleUpon and have made it possible to find people who have similar interests that live close to you.  Plus, you can get nearly real-time updates from the people you are subscribed to, served in your Recent Activity page (formerly What’s New).

To access the new StumbleUpon from your current Profile page, go to http://www.stumbleupon.com/trynow/. We are planning to permanently transition to the new StumbleUpon in the next month and will send more gentle reminders as the date draws near.

Relationship:

There are 3 types of relationships in the New StumbleUpon:

1. Your Subscriptions = people that you subscribed to. They are people whose content you are interested in (much like a subscription to a magazine). Their favorites and reviews will populate your “Recent Activity” page. Their content will influence the quality of your stumbles.
2. Your Subscribers = people who subscribed to you. They like your content and want to see things you discover and review on their “Recent Activity” page. Your favorites will influence their stumbles.
3. Mutual Subscribers = is when you are subscribed to another Stumbler and that Stumbler is subscribed to you. You both see a value in being connected to each other.
• Mutual Subscribers who can “Direct Share” = are mutual subscribers who have mutually opted in to share sites with each other from their toolbars (formerly known as “Friends”.) In order to start sharing, both parties need to have checked the option to “accept shares from the toolbar”.  Mutual subscribers who can direct share with each other are labeled with a dual-share icon:

Useful tips for switching over to the new social relationship system:

• Your existing Subscriptions and Subscribers from V3 will remain the same in V4.
• Use the transition period to bring your contacts up-to-date. To help you with this transition, we added a temporary sub-section to the Subscriptions category. Go to Stumblers > Subscriptions and scroll down to “Friends who are not subscriptions.” Reassess this list of friends: do you want to continue to share sites with them?
• If you want to direct-share, simply subscribe to them and refresh the page. The Friends you subscribed to will be moved to the Subscriptions section.
• If you no longer want to direct-share, subscribe to them, uncheck the box for direct-share and then unsubscribe to them.
• If you like their content, but don’t want to direct-share, subscribe to them, and uncheck the box for direct-share.
• In order to direct-share in V4 with another Stumbler, you must both be subscribed to each other and both opt in to accept shares to your toolbar.

• Read more about StumbleUpon Toolbar 3.38
• Read more about StumbleUpon User Profile