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The fantastic draw of SU is that, once you’ve signed up as a free member, you can click a button on their toolbar (for Internet Explorer or Firefox) to find you random websites, blogs, pictures or videos across the web based on categories you’re interested in. Once you’re on a site you can use the toolbar once more to decide whether you like or dislike it, pass it on to someone else that uses SU and review it to give other members an idea why they’d want to go there too.

Alternatively you can add a website to SU on your own by manually navigating to the site you like and clicking the “Like this page!”. You can also use handy links and icons on many websites that will do the adding for you (in case you’re not using the toolbar) - for an example of this take a look at the icons below the “Share and Enjoy:” found below each post and page on this blog.

All websites, friends, types of sites you’re interested in and reviews you’ve added to your StumbleUpon are on a simple page that you can customize with a few details about yourself, avatar and a choice of colours so you can feel a bit more individual. In the spirit of SU, you can also go to random users’ pages from a link on yours or anyone else’s. You can also join groups based on popular themes where members can discuss websites in personal group-forums.

Overall, I’m a huge fan of StumbleUpon and I have found many fantastic websites through it (as well as adding quite a few I like so hopefully others will become aware of them if they weren’t already). In the future I hope to highlight some the sites found through there on this blog but until then go forth and Stumble!

[Edit - 10:57pm, 7th May 2008]
I just wanted to update to say that, although signing up gives you additional benefits, StumbleUpon has a demo so you can look through the huge list of sites on their website and access certain features without having an account. To try out the demo go to: http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/