One of the great ideas for netizens: StumbleUpon. Definitely one of the more interesting trends I've come across - and above all: useful. So what is the idea? Discover unexpected web pages on your topic of choice.
First download the toolbar. You will be asked to select your topics of interest (choose what you will - Games, Film, Self-help, what have you) Now you will notice a new toolbar with several icons - the one you are most interested in is the one on the left: "Stumble!" Just click there and you will be transported to a webpage that someone in the community recommended, of one of the categories you chose. Just to the right of that icon you can find the categories icon - either let it randomly select the category for you (All), or specify the category you want.
The other side of the coin is that you can also tag pages for other people. So suppose you have a favourite page about dance culture you'd like to share - simply give it a tag (tag textbox) and confirm it by clicking the tag icon. It's as simple as that.
And in addition you can keep track of your favourite stumbles by clicking on the "I like it!" icon and later view them on your StumbleUpon userpage - just click on the "pages" icon to get there.
There's a community growing around this, but it gets my vote and I hope it continues to expand. It's rare that I find a net trend as useful as this one - now whenever I have a free moment I find myself stumbling upon new web pages. Explore the internet!
Have fun!!
2 comments:
Hey MArts. I have checked the stumble upon however have not played yet with it... it seems to be very interesting...
There is something i found and i think you can be interested in:
"In order to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the publication of the first e-book, the Gutenberg Organization and The world e-book library have organised the first world e-book fair it will take part from the 4th of July to the 4th of August 2006. During this month users are able to download more than 300.000 titles absolutely for free directly to their computers. Once the user download the e-book s/he can read its content on the screen of a desktop, laptop ar a PDA such palm or windows by using a small program provided by the website and which is download at the same time with the chosen e-book. You can access to the website by logging in at http://www.worldebookfair.com The organisers are due to increase the volume of book up to 900.000 e-books by the 2009. The virtual library is meade of hundreds of books covering a huge range of subjects and written in more than 100 languages. I had a go this morning and it really has what they offered, yet I have not download any book but I shall sooner or later... Please hava a go and enjoy."
sjo! quite a number of books linked to, i'll make sure to keep investigating and accessing this.
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