077 Stumble to a random site and Submit a site

Stumbleupon: Stumble to a random site; & Submit a site
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2010.10.19

written by JCPMA 2010.11.19

There are several ways of surfing to a random site in StumbleUpon.com's
database.

1. Use the StumbleUpon demo url.

(No login or install required). This is especially handy for
those that don't use browsers like Firefox or GoogleChrome.
[from source http://www.labnol.org/tag/stumbleupon/ ]
http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url=http://www.labnol.org/ This link
is referred by Labnol.
try it now

[from source
http://operawatch.com/news/2008/02/how-to-get-stumbleupon-to-work-in-opera-
and-safari.html]
http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url=http://operawatch.com/ This link
is referred by Operawatch.

With these links, the topics are not pre-set, you click on some
interesting ones before you start stumbling:

http://stumbleupon.com/demo/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/

2. Create a user account at StumbleUpon.com.

After login, set your preferences/interests. Then you can
click on the "Stumble" button in the upper left corner to go to a
random site that matches your interests.

3. Install the Stumbleupon (SU) add-on/extension for the
browsers Firefox, or Google Chrome.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/addon/
https://chrome.google.com/extensions
http://getsatisfaction.com/stumbleupon/products/stumbleupon_stumbleupon_for_chrome
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138/

Login and start Stumbling.


4. Log in to http://su.pr

This is StumbleUpon's branch service, of urlShortening/blog-
content integration to social media sites. (You need to be a user of
Twitter &/or Facebook.) You should have access to a StumbleUpon
toolbar there.



Different methods of submitting (recommending) a site to Stumbleupon.com

When you submit an url with a button/badge etc, this is what it puts
into the browser address bar, appended with the full url that the user
wants to submit immediately after.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://url-to-submit-for-example.com/easy.html

There are three general categories of ways to submit a site
to StumbleUpon.

A. From the Firefox/GoogleChrome add-on SU toolbar.

Hit the the "Thumbs up" button. You will be prompted for more
details, if the site in not in the SU database. After filling in the
details click on "submit"


B. Bookmarklets

Two sources of Bookmarklets

• Navigate to Stumbleupon's page to find the bookmarklet on
  the right side: http://www.stumbleupon.com/addon/
  Once you are there, you can drag its link to your bookmark bar


• This next bookmarklet is from source
  http://www.ampercent.com/stumble-see-reviews-bookmarklets/1745/&t=Two
  Useful Stumbleupon Bookmarklets to Replace the Toolbar written by Amit
  Banerjee
  
  Submit
  a page <= Bookmark or drag this link to your
  browser's bookmark bar

Here is the code

<a
href="javascript:document.location.href='http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url='+document.URL+'&title='+document.title.replace(/%20/g,'+');">Submit
a page</a>

C. From a button (badge) that has been pre-embedded on a site.

i) Putting a submit button on your own web site

The easiest way to get a button is to go to
Stumbleupon.com at

http://www.stumbleupon.com/buttons/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/badges/landing/
http://www.stumbleupon.com/badges/

ii) Putting a javascript button on your website
This javascript code, is taken an modified from David Kwan's
page at
http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/1dku1S/www.articlestools.com/articles/stumbleupon.shtml

It puts an imagebutton or, if you choose, a non-image link on your
static webpage:

/*-- This is javascript code for your static webpage. --*/

<script language="JavaScript">
document.write ('<a href="');
document.write('http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url='+document.URL+'&title='+document.title.replace(/ 
/g,'+')+'">');
document.write ('<img border=0
src=/yourImageDir/SU-logo.gif>Submit a site to
StumbleUpon</a>');
</script>



/*!-- Note, you can omit this string from the above script if don't
want a logo: --*/

/* <img border=0 src=/yourImageDir/SU-logo.gif> */

iii) Putting a badge (submit button) on your Blogger site Follow the
directions at:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/badges/

http://woork.blogspot.com/2007/12/add-stumbleupon-button-in-your-bloggers.html
http://herselfswebtools.com/2007/05/how-to-add-stumbleupon-links-to-your-blog-posts.html