Beyond Google 2: StumbleUpon Integrates with Facebook

Okay, we admit it: we're StumbleUpon addicts at the Galaxy. We use the service to find user-filtered photos, websites, and videos we think might make good feature posts on the Galaxy. But we're equally smitten with Facebook and its powerful social communications networking system.

A couple of weeks back we posted Web guru Seth Godin's comment (he's the author of " Cow," "Small is the New Big," and his new New York Times bestseller, "The Dip") that "StumbleUpon is social search and it's revolutionizing how we find things on the Web."

Using search engines to locate relevant content typically means hunting through pages of results. Rather than searching for quality web sites, StumbleUpon members are taken directly to web sites matching their personal interests and preferences.

Now, with the StumbleUpon application for the Facebook Platform linking users’ StumbleUpon and Facebook profiles, your most recent “thumbs up” for favorite websites can be displayed right on your Facebook profile, blending discovery and social networking.

StumbleUpon has also unveiled a new feature within its newly redesigned user pages, called “What’s New" where Stumblers can see the most recent discoveries within their network, which enhances the sharing of the best sites within the community.

Posted by Casey Kazan