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  • StumbleUpon Now Has An ‘Add To List’ Browser Button For Those Who Don’t Use The Toolbar

    Update: A spokesperson for StumbleUpon tells us this is currently just a test:

    “We are currently testing a bookmarklet feature with a small subset of our community. We plan to analyze the data to determine the next steps for the feature.”

    StumbleUpon has a new button called “Add to List”. It’s pretty self-explanatory. It lets you add a webpage to one of your StumbleUpon lists with the click of a button.

    You can get the button here.

    StumbleUpon launched its Lists feature with its major design overhaul last year. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it simply lets you collect webpages that you find in topic-oriented lists. If you want to keep a list of cool Breaking Bad links, for example, you can do so (which I do).

    When the redesign left beta, StumbleUpon added an “add to list” feature to its popular toolbar.

    Add to list from toolbar

    Now, the new button allows you to add content to your lists whether you use the toolbar or not. This appears to be the latest evolution of StumbleUpon’s strategy to make the toolbar less crucial to the SU experience. The redesign was a major factor in that, enabling users to browse previews of content in a somewhat Pinterest-like format.

    Pinterest design

    While some of us still prefer the toolbar as a primary way of using the service, you no longer need it to get enjoyment out of StumbleUpon, and this new button only adds to that.

    Once you click the “Add to List” button from a webpage, it will bring up a screen with your lists, so you can select which one you want to add it to, or create a new one.

    Add To List

    It’s largely been a quiet year for StumbleUpon in terms of products and new features, but that appears to be changing. The company recently announced that it has become profitable, and shared some revenue numbers, then made its first-ever acquisition.

    Read our recent interview with CEO Mark Bartels for more on what the company is up to.

  • The New StumbleUpon Is Out Of Beta, Lists Come To The Toolbars

    Last month, StumbleUpon launched a big redesign in beta. Today, the beta ends. 100,000 users were already using the beta, and now all StumbleUpon users will get the new version.

    A company spokesperson tells WebProNews that during the beta, the two major things StumbleUpon focused on were adding “Add to List” controls to its browser extensions, and improvements to the activity feed, including Recent Activity on the Activity page and adding new activity types into the feed, such as a page added to a list, list shared, and list followed.

    Stumble Bar

    StumbleUpon also released numerous other design and functional upgrades, based on user feedback, the spokesperson tells us.

    During the beta, users created over 45,000 lists, with the new Lists feature. Now that the functionality is available via the browser extensions, it will undoubtedly see a great deal more use.

    “Our more visual layout provides new ways to Stumble, and our users have continued to use it to find the best, personalized content on the Web,” says Senior Product Manager David Baden in a blog post. “With the new StumbleUpon, Stumblers have also explored new types of content beyond their normal Interest categories through the Activity and Trending tabs. Along with this, Stumblers now have an identity with StumbleDNA, showing what kind of unique Internet snowflake each individual user really is.”

    More on the new design and features here.