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Despite [rumors of an acquisition by Ebay][2] and even as [Google starts muscling in on its territory][3], StumbleUpon continues to deliver impressive new features. Today the social bookmarking and random browsing leader released a new feature dubbed [StumbleThru][1], which allows for site specific "stumbling," letting users to randomly browse Flickr, MySpace, YouTube and other popular sites.
Given yesterday's announcement from Google, who is now offering similar accidental search capabilities, StumbleUpon is likely looking to steal a bit of Google's thunder. And StumbleThru will probably do just that. The new domain-specific options give users another reason to stick with the original stumbling service.
So far StumbleUpon has not made any major announcement regarding the new service, however, the release notes for the latest version of the StumbleUpon toolbar tout the new features.
To get started with StumbleThru you'll need to have the StumbleUpon toolbar installed and login to your account.
From there head to the StumbleThru page and select a domain to begin stumbling in. Clicking any of the featured domains will add the site icon next to the "Stumble!" button on the toolbar.
In my brief testing the new features worked without any glitches and I expect this will be popular with users, especially the Flickr and Wikipedia options since both of those sites lend themselves to random, accidental discoveries.
In fact, browsing through Flickr via StumbleUpon is better than most of the navigation tools that Flickr offers.
[via [Mashable][4]]
[1]: http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumblethru.php "StumbleThru"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/04/stumbleupon_mee.html "StumbleUpon Meets Its Maker?"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/google_introduc.html "Google Introduces StumbleUpon-Style Search Options"
[4]: http://mashable.com/2007/04/19/stumblethru/ "Breaking: StumbleUpon Launches StumbleThru - Stumble on Flickr, MySpace, YouTube"
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