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StumbleUpon has launched a new feature called StumbleThru, that lets you stumble through your favorite sites. So if you are a Flickr freak, you could now use StumbleUpon to stumble flickr photos, give recommendations on the photos and with time the system will start serving you with hyper relevant content. The sites supported by this feature include-Wikipedia, Flickr, MySpace, Youtube, Google’s Blogger, Wordpress.com, TheOnion.com, pbs.com, physorg.com, cnn.com, bbc.co.uk, .gov websites, .edu websites.

The initial set of sites for which the feature has been enabled must be the favorite destinations among StumbleUpon users, however their is a lot of useful, interesting and exciting content scattered around the web that is yet to be stumbled. What I would like to have is a way for my visitors to stumble through posts on Startup Meme. The ratings of the users from my blog could then be fed into StumbleUpon’s recommendation engine and could be used to determine which posts are really good, and could be served to general StumbleUpon audience who has the relevant preferences. This will in no time provide StumbleUpon with immense and valuable data about the great content scattered across the web, hidden even from the spying eyes of some of the best Search Engines.

StumbleUpon has recently been at the center of attention. They just went through a web2.0 makeover, than came the news of eBay acquiring StumleUpon for around $45-$75 million, which was spoiled by Google’s launch of Google Recommendations, a similar service, on the same day.

I have also embedded the Youtube video below, that I stumbled through. Watch it and tell me, if you find it interesting.

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