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Despite the controversy of the New version of StumbleUpon, there are many great tools have been added to it such as you can know the similar interests of the other stumblers by their tags, the views and the reviews of your topics.

It also reduces the ability of spamming others by adjusting sharing with stumblers who accept shares of the toolbar. There are certain benefits of the old Stumble Upon which does not exist in the New version such as html editor which was controlling the code of images, videos, topics and the background of the stumbler’s account and the topics. In this article you will know some solutions of these obstacles.

I- Background

1- change background of your blog by :

* sign in to your account

* go to settings

* choose “customize your profile” then choose the color themes you want.

2- put background to your images,videos, topics

<center style=”border: 2px solid #ffffff;background-image: url(‘insert background location from any site you want’);
background-color:#000000; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px;”> put the code generated when you add review to the page </center>

example

1- I choose topic from site, this topic : http://dl8.glitter-graphics.net/pub/478/478188lt2qyg0w1s.jpg

2- I add this topic to my blog

3- edit the topic and copy the code

4- choose url of background you want such as http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/534/534755h92efycwnw.jpg

the code will become

<center style=”border: 2px solid #ffffff;background-image: url(‘http://dl5.glitter-graphics.net/pub/534/534755h92efycwnw.jpg‘); background-color:#000000; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 10px; -moz-border-radius-topright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 10px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 10px;”> <a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://dl8.glitter-graphics.net/pub/478/478188lt2qyg0w1s.jpg”><img border=”0″ width=”352″ height=”264″ src=”http://dl8.glitter-graphics.net/pub/478/478188lt2qyg0w1s.jpg“/></a> beautiful cat</center>

the result is

2- Fonts

1- Font color

to change the color of your text, add this code to your page

<span style=”color:red”> the text </span>

example:

the text is (stumbleupon is a great community website), if you want to change color from back to red. the code will become

<span style=”color:red”>stumbleupon is a great community website</span>

the result is : stumbleupon is a great community website

2- font size

to change the size of your text, add this code to your page

<p style=”font-size:xx-small;”>the text</p> this is for very very small text

<p style=”font-size:x-small;”>the text</p> this is for very small text

<p style=”font-size:small;”>the text</p> this is for small text

<p style=”font-size:medium;”>the text</p> this is for medium text

<p style=”font-size:large;”>the text</p> this is for large text

<p style=”font-size:x-large;”>the text</p> this is for very large text

<p style=”font-size:xx-large;”>the text</p> this is for very very large text

example:

the text is (stumbleupon is a great community website), if you want to change font from normal to large. the code will become:

<p style=”font-size:large;”>stumbleupon is a great community website</p>

the result is stumbleupon is a great community website

3- HTML Image Link Code

*If you want to add image to your blog whatever its size insert this code

<img src=”insert url of your image” />

example

if you want to put any image to your blog

1- copy the location of your image

2- add it to your code <img src=”http://blog.boxbe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/love.jpg“/>

when you put this code to your page, the result will become

* if you want to add images to your blog with certain size add this code

<img  src=”insert url of your image“width=”write width you desired“height=”write height you desired“/> </a>

such as

<img  src=”http://blog.boxbe.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/love.jpg” width=”200” height=”80“/> </a>

the result is

These information will handle the common problems of the newest version of stumbleupon and waiting your comments if you have any problems.

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StumbleUpon has launched to its fans and users the new feature of the share tool. This technique aims to facilitate the process of sending the pages to friends. this technique is more easy to use. You  only need to go to your favorites and choose the image or the page you like, then the share button will appear. After that, chose the friends you want to share with. And the pages will be sent through emails. Wow it is too easy way! It is so simple than the stumbleupon toolbar. By this new feature of sharing , everything can be shared with no time.

The new users of the stumbleupon will not need downloading the toolbar of stumble. All the newest and latest topics will be shared with no effort. This new feature of sharing will make the process of rating topics more easy.

The benefits of the new technique could be a great thing for the users of SU. But ,truthfully this way is a great portal for spam. And an interesting way to bother others with nonsense. This way will make the shouters and fool people kill their time with an easy way and without  effort.

The toolbar of SU enables users to appreciate the time and force them to send the topics which are already important. And the usual technique of sharing  is more sociable than the new one.

SU is a perfect way of marketing the valuable topics. And more sophisticated tool. It depends upon the good quality of topics. The new feature of share makes any one send any thing despite the interest of the other.

StumbleUpon tries by this new technique to attract more traffic and increase the visitors . But unfortunately the numbers say something else.
Many users of SU find that this way of sharing  is the most annoying one. And it kills the chance of having a space of beautiful interests.
But some others find this way is so cool. And most of those people has no hobby except invading others’ space. ??

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In a strange phenomenon that emerged few days ago, Digg started to disable a large number of Top Diggers’ Accounts without any previous warnings or even emails letting diggers know of the new changes to the terms of service so that they might have the opportunity to adjust to their rules.

Many active diggers tried to log in to their accounts several times, but they always got the message “Your account has been disabled permanently”. They didn’t stick to that and even emailed Digg Support Team to apologies, but they again got a harsh reply that “This decision is final and irreversible”. Digg just shut users down and banned their accounts for life.

It’s probably not fair to compare the way Digg enforces its rules to any real justice system. There have been about 500-600 accounts banned from Digg lately and I’m sure that now you are asking yourself “What are the unforgivable crimes, which those diggers committed and lead Digg to ban their accounts?”.

“Don’t Use Scripts” These were the last words said by the late banned diggers. Digg claimed that the excessive use of Scripts/bots, like the Greasemonkey Script that facilitate digging friends submissions, places additional load on Digg servers (slowing things down for everyone), so using them is a violation to Digg’s Terms of Use and will result in losing access to your Digg account.

“No Blind Digging” Also some of banned power diggers spoke about, Massive Digg ban, quick inspection of their 48 hours activity shows that they had high level of activity, more than 300 diggs, some of them even reached more than 1000 diggs. This lead to get their accounts banned as well.

Digg will pay the price as well; All of these things proof that Digg’s (Anti-Cheat) system has become more sophisticated trying to protest against all Cheating Policies. Digg is now applying the rule “You cheat, you’re out” even if this will cause them to lose a large number of traffic and users’ activities.

Go in Peace late diggers… It is bye bye time!
Digg users not only got their accounts banned, but also lost many of their friends. They spent significant time and energy providing the site with content, building their reputation online and flourishing their accounts to be active members, and then they were shocked that every thing have been vanished and they have no choice except accepting the whole reality and registering a new account from scratch.

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We tackled a little while ago the changes that may happen to StumbleUpon and the way friends and subscribers would change in a previous post. Now it becomes a reality; SU launched its new changes that has been a while in the making. Stumbleupon, finally, improved the way you can make Friends or follow another member’s Stumbles.

Yesterday, SU presented a nice surprise to all its members. You can now friend over 200 people on Stumble, know your subscribers and subscribe to people with interesting stumbles, enjoy the new look of adding friends feature, know the percentage of every user who match your interests, as well as get a notification message to let you know that someone has requested your friendship and you are free to accept or ignore his/her friendship.

All these changes seem interesting and worth a try, but the question now is that “Are SU changes still a mystery, despite the official release?” Will they cause unpredictable revolution in SU community?
we may find some stumblers who will use the new service to enhance the stumbles they get from their subscribers by subscribing to other stumblers’ favorites, who really introduce something valuable and related to their interests. At the same time we may find some stumblers who will use the new service to add an endless number of friends to their list just to enlarge their friends circle and become able to share their own posts and business with larger number of stumblers, without caring whether they will get some useful stumbles from their friends (subscribers) or not!

In our previous post “Will The Removal of SU 200 Friends Limit Really Work?”, we were just predicting the future and wanted to know your opinions, whether this new feature will add something to SU or not. But now, after being launched officially and becoming a fact, what do you think about the new feature? Can it benefit you by any means? Do you now enjoy something different while stumbling? Or would you prefer to restore the old system again, and just deal with your limited number of friends? All of these questions really need some answers.

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How many online marketers noticed that Search Engines are not enough, and how can social networking websites help to increase the number of hits to their website more than Search Engine Optimization, (SEO)?

Social Networks can bring many visitors and potential clients to business owners’ sites in a short period of time. They have become a place for business professionals too, now, many online marketers conquer Social Communities because they became sure that they will find their target consumers there.

Some online users, who lead to Social Networks success, took Social Networks as the TRUSTED place where they find their friends, ask for their help solving a problem, recommendations for certain car brand, how to apply makeup perfectly (Women), or even how to deal with their children.

Simply, They can know all what they need to know, but from a place that depends on friends’ previous experiences and more trusted than Search Engines that depend on (encyclopedia, Google, Blue Book, Yellow Pages, classified ads, etc…). In a nutshell, in social networking, “What You Know Will Depend On Who You Know”.

Social Networks can also help you discover the things you didn’t know you wanted. By navigating through an endless number of pages and interests of other online users (friends) in the community, you will be able to hit some useful information somewhere you didn’t even think you will want to know, not just solve a problem or finding things you were looking for like Search Engines.

Search Engines are no longer the sole dominant of web traffic and information resources, Social Networks made many important changes in the map of “SEO” and forced Search Engines not to work alone for serving online searchers.
BUT this doesn’t mean at all that Social Networks can go alone! A Combination of Search Engines and Social Networks can develop a positive sense of helping people online as well as increasing the number of meaningful hits to your website.

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The idea of bookmarking certain page or website you have liked and found interesting for further reading and to reduce the labor you face trying to remember your preferred locations has been developed.

Now, almost all online business owners use social bookmarking and social networking websites to promote their business by not only saving interesting pages but also sharing these pages with an endless number of online users who might find it interesting as well and share with other friends and so on…

For all those online entrepreneurs who apply Social Marketing techniques to promote their business, here are some important pitfalls, which they should avoid in order not to cause harm instead of benefits to their business:

1- Social Marketing plans take time to mature; people hates self-promoters or persons who are greedy. Hence you need to have a high degree of patience while committing to such strategy. Keep away from asking people to click your links from your first posts, believe me your business will never still alive for long time.

2- Never indulge into Spam Schemes; it is more than difficult to avoid getting black listed as a Spamer in social bookmarking websites. You will need to established an authoritative status in a community or become a power-user then you will be acceptable to promote and share your business with others.

3- Discover the community; some people register their accounts in social bookmarking communities without knowing the community they are dealing with. They start posting articles about (SEO) and (Google Adsense) in a community that doesn’t has people who can be interested in such topics at all. The most astonishing thing is that they wait for their posts to become popular!

You should always believe that the one community perceives things differently than other communities. Take a look at the site and community before you start, know the rules, know what goes hot and what doesn’t, know what other users find interesting and what they don’t.

4- Don’t Submit while people are sleeping; knowing the times when people are awake surfing the community and submitting during them is very important. Most people surf social sites in the morning or around lunch time during their break at work, so this is the best time to submit your posts and remember that you should always capture people’s attention.

5- Don’t just Submit and Forget; keep observing your posts and be up to date with what is happening every while. Interact with the community, if someone comments on a post then respond back to them whether the comment was positive or negative. Try to start the conversation and make good relationships with other users.

Social bookmarking is a great way to identify different sites on a similar topic. It is now seen as another form of search engine optimization, and good sites try to be highly placed and recommended on social bookmark sites. SO don’t loose such effective weapon in your business promotion battle.

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We all, who are interested in social media sites, heard about StumbleUpon’s intention to lift the 200 friends limit. Finally Stumble Upon has listened to its users who suffered a lot from constantly checking their friends to make sure that they are receiving good stumbles related to their interests. And others who also suffered from standing helpless in front of all their fans who always insist on the add as a mutual.

SU paid some attention to the call of removing the 200 friends limit and stated that they are going through just few days to remove this limit and to separate the social & content aspects of friendship on SU. So you will be able to “subscribe to someone’s favorites without necessarily becoming their friend, and become someone’s friend without necessarily seeing their stumbles”.

All of this is great and some Stumblers can see it as a long-waited new option that can facilitate their stumbling mission and make it more easier and enjoyable. They see that it will be great to follow stumbles from certain stumblers who they find their content valuable, relevant to their interests, and really want to know about. And simply opt-out of stumbles of certain friends whose interests do not match theirs.

But here is a fact that there are other Stumblers who have a wide view of this new option suggests that a Thousand friends is quite a lot to manage and this option will cause “too much” complexity, and subsequently more time spent juggling this aspect of the site, with the ability to see 1000 on the what’s new tab if you have lots of friends.

They also believe that separating friends , subscribers and their functions will result in new arguments and feuds, it will not go so smoothly for some Stumblers; it will be a new source of issues when people want to be friends instead of subscribers and vice-versa.

Some Stumblers also claim that it will be a deadly mission for someone to share a certain interesting page with his/her friends, they can spend a whole day and a night sending good stuff to their unlimited number of mutual friends. They agree that this is going to be horrible and suggests that either StumbleUpon changes its “Sharing” system to be easier and gain a new option to send pages to large number of friends at one time, or devise a new technique to share pages with friends.

So, after this over view on the upcoming change that will happen in StumbleUpon system and the removing of the 200 friends limit, we should come to an important question that “Will the removal of SU 200 friends limit really work and benefit the SU community? Or it is just a kind of propaganda to grab the eyes and spread the words about the long-waited change?The few coming days will answer”

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Social networks proved their effectiveness in online marketing different fields. Whether you are trying to promote certain product or a service, Social Networks will be the best method to cling to and start spreading the words about your business.
If you are an online marketer who tries to drive flows of traffic to your pages, you have to think about dealing with social networks and try to bookmark some of your posts from your own websites to the major social media websites.

You need to let the online community knows about your business, social networks give you the ability to communicate with an endless number of online users and share with them whatever you want depending on their interests, you should select the best online community that cope with the type of posts you will submit and determine your target users who will be interested in your posts, so that they will do the rest of the work for you, yeah believe it or not, they can do the rest of the work for you by promoting your submissions and share them with their friends.
But always remember that you will need to find the people who are really seeking what you present and will be eager to know about every thing you introduce.

Pay some attention for your friends; another thing to consider if you want your friends to share and spread your posts is that you have to do the same for them. Always make sure that you give something before you think to take, and ask the others to give you. It will work as an incentive for your friends to share your business because they know that you will do the same for them. But never stop here, you should always thank and praise them for the great help they offer you, simple and sweet words can do all the hard work.

Just do it, from now on never waste any time without making profit using social networks, every MINUTE counts. Never be afraid that you will not be welcomed, or you will be blocked by social networks. Online users are very sociable, but as I said before, you should always determine your target users and work for them.

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As many of us know that the Big Brother (BB) in Orwell’s novel is just a symbol, which has been embodied by the party to make the public feel that they are always monitored and they must not to try to think of the party’s injustice rules or even try to protest. The controversial part here is that these rules were for the public and "only" the public! No member of the party followed these rules or even being asked to follow them, simply because they are a part of the party and have the authority and the ultimate power.

How could this be? This can’t be accepted by any reasonable mind at all.

The same case is here in the online society as well, and therefore, we are supposed to be asked a very important question that;

Does being old in the online world really means that you have made it all, and that you can’t be treated like any other marketer who is still doing his best to have his business listed in the map of the online business, in other words "You are a part of the party"?

Simple example that can prove the ultimate authority and power of the popular sites is the "Original Source" theory; let’s go into some details:

Social networks or any community websites that allow posting topics from other sites always have a rule that "all the posts submitted should refer to the Original Source of the stories and it is not allowed to post any stories from intermediate websites".

That is totally acceptable rule and me myself really appreciate, as it guarantee the protection of Intellectual Property. BUT it will be totally unfair to have this rule applied for some websites and ignored for others; applied for those who still building their business and try to introduce something valuable to the web community, and ignored for those who consider themselves the kings of the web, no matter what they are presenting, or whether it is useful or not.

Any post that is submitted from an old, highly ranked, and popular website is always accepted, even if they are not the original sources. And any post that is submitted from a newborn, still not ranked, and creative website is always rejected, even if they refer to some original sources in their stories. Have you ever asked yourself why? I think you should know!

The answer is simple; "The Party is manipulating the Internet, and they have the ultimate power to control the web".

Now you must have noticed that the Internet Society discards an important feature, which is "Neutrality", as if that being old and popular, means you have a green light to do anything (what ever you want to do), and you are excluded from the list of those who should obey the rules of the online community. Again "You are a part of the party".

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Many of us read or heard about George Orwell’s novel "1984 "; it shows how the Party who has the ultimate power can manipulate all the Public who struggle to have a place in the society, and forces them to obey its unfair rules. May be some of you read this novel more than one time, so there is no need to give more details about the novel and let’s see how it really apply to our World Wide Web and how Orwell wasn’t only trying to tell a science fiction story, on the contrary, time has proved that he was predicting something that happened indeed, and foresaw what will the life look like after few years!
As these words may seem to be new to your ears, let’s clarify more;

Nowadays, becoming rich, popular, and achieving many revenues mean that you can simply control and manipulate the Web, especially in the world of Social Networks.
Popular websites don’t even spend a cent for marketing and let others know about them as there are thousands or even millions who do the whole work for them.
Have you ever thought about the matter this way? Have you ever asked yourself why only the websites who reached the peak of popularity gain the attention of online users and can’t be reported as SPAM, regardless of the number of posts that are submitted from them, even if they are promoting certain product or service which is the real SPAM for sure?

How many times did we read the word SPAM spreading all over the internet just because the resource of the content is not one of the (Party members) those websites on the top, in other words, in the safe side? For the internet society, the sites on the top can’t be treated like other websites which still struggle to book their tickets among the websites at the summit, even if they offer some high quality services and products.
This is not every thing; you can even find some other internet users who don’t want your site to succeed and try to fight you claiming that you are spamming the system or you are not presenting unique content, but the truth is that you still don’t have enough power to have your posts published without any troubles.

The internet world, like any other field, should be an open source for all entrepreneurs to build their own businesses, promote them, and making profits from the services or the products they present. If we stuck to the idea that becoming popular means that you did it all, and that you have the ultimate power to control the internet, we will never achieve any progress as there will be no competition and no efforts to enhance the business. There will be a lack of enthusiasm to create something unique that can benefit the whole humanity and is considered a new addition to the web, as every thing will be destined to be SPAM.

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