Oops! Moojj did it again. Our favorite programmer and social media user down under has used his combined of “what we need” and “how to build it” and put out a killer tool for StumbleUpon users across the universe.
Introducing the StumbleUpon Alerter. Slick and sleak, this tool can be extremely useful for those trying to crack into the enigmatic SU elite status. As mysterious as Digg, Reddit, and the “pure” social media sites are, StumbleUpon has always had the most difficult algorithm to understand along with the fewest tracking tools available. It’s unique format and the sheer difficulty of classifying it (is it really a social media site?) make this tool an invaluable add to every stumbler’s system tray.
Here’s what it does, straight from the site:
- Plays a sound whenever a person reviews your discoveries
- Plays a sound when one of your discoveries is liked
- Displays a list of your discoveries on StumbleUpon
- Shows a list of people who have rated your sites
- Lists all of the reviews for your discoveries
- Ranks your friends in order of most reviews
- Made with the same interface as StumbleUpon
Instead of going into the details, which you can get from the post itself, let’s make a semi-obvious statement and leave it open for a future post about it. Bottom line, I want to know how it can be used to be a better stumbler. There are several ideas that come to mind, such as friend-selection for those who are at or near their 200 friend level, dumping sources that aren’t getting any play, keeping track of how many times a particular site has been discovered, and then there is the research. Just the research aspect alone makes this tool a tremendous asset for stumblologists.
We’ll play with it for a week and report our findings. In the meantime, download it and play with it yourself. It doesn’t cost that much — oh, about none.
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Sounds like a great tool to use!
awesome find.
thanks for posting. hope all is well.
paul
Hi there,
I created a little tool that searches among most of the famous video providers, i would love to get your opinion as i am looking for feedback to make it better.
best and thanks
So it’s an add on for an add on?
I understand the utility of it. An upgrade from Stumble Upon could make a lot of your hard work disappear, no?
stumbleupon has NEVER been a social networking site for me. i could give a rat’s ass who looks at what i like or their opinion of it. for me… the true value of stumbleupon is summed up in its name. it allows me to go to websites, within my interest,(or not)that i would never on my own be able to find. and for me… THATS ENOUGH! i had lost interest in the computer after quickly finding chat to be a collection of sad assholes… and blogs… a collection of opinionated assholes that i cant tell they suck in real time. to all of them… i say… kill yourselves.. do the world a favor. then, one day, quite by accident i stumbled upon… stumbleupon. the vistas (no pun intended) that it opened up to me rival any interest in human contact i had. stumbleupon has opened up the “tubes” to me… i simply click.. click.. click.. all day and i dont care about anyone else. if stumbleupon designed a simple button that would click to websites in my varied interests that DIDNT HAVE ANY SOCIAL NETWORKING horse crap…it would be just fine with me… to hell with the social side of stumbleupon..