StumbleUpon is definitely one of the best recognized platforms to discover great websites online, judged on the basis of collaborative opinions. It amalgamates personal preferences with pages of high quality, to confer the satisfied results for the international populace.  It’s more refined than a search engine, as it serves the facilities of personalized browser, people driven technology and dynamic approach.

StumbleUpon is all about fascinating images, enticing videos, tempting site links and innumerable other ways to discover the top notch site material of different websites, related to travel, music, photography, humor and science.

Design

Since, the sole aim of the site is to include as many sites, related to different domains, it uses subtle color scheme. The template, with white background and touches of dark blue confers a very serious impression for the website. Detailing of every site is done in a professional manner. The organization is simplified with the usage of simple content, so that no ambiguity prevails for the users.

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Delicious - The website URL calls for some thought that goes behind the naming of the website. There is also the tagline that sounds interesting. This is the tastiest book marking website, as they say. The website looks good with blue and white as its basic design colors. You can have a look at the popular websites for each category and these are called the bookmarks.

Technical Overview

The website is simple to load and gets downloaded very fast with a broadband connection. The links work all too well and open up to pages with large amount of information and websites that you can find readily.
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As a start up networking website, Wikio seems to be doing well. This looks like another social networking website with the updates, the videos, the signups, the search field and so on. The first version of Wikio looked much like Digg and an inspired one. Then they moved to mme tracking and also the collection of news. In the latest redesigned version of Wikio there are a lot of features. There is the section on Shopping and that works well. The items are again divided into various categories and you can link to related news. The looks for the video section is similar to that of Diggs and there is one difference only in the Techmeme style. The videos are good.
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Twitter – The name suggests the functionality of this website well. It is a social networking website with that extra edge to it that is fast growing due to its excessive popularity. It is a free micro blogging website. The little birdie on the website is cute and the site design is simple with a login form to the right and a signup statement which is very suggestive. You are asked what you are doing and that’s the concern of the innumerable friends and family you get to meet on Twitter.com

Functionality

You can make your tweets, that is whatever you want to say to your friends, public or private. The users can make comments. The short updates are posted in the form of “tweets” and they can also upload the videos through features called Twideo.

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Reddit is a simple looking website and does not much look like the jazzy social networking websites of today. The website has a white background with a simple blue banner. It has a search and login field to the right, just in front of your eyes. You can also submit a link and create your own reddit.com website.

Design

Simplicity is the main feature of the success of Reddit with a minimal design structure that only Google can compete with. The Home page features a section with a list of twenty five stories. This is commented upon by the users. The posters are awarded points known as Karma points for the main and popular items that they post.

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Technorati has a dignified professional look. Instead of the blue and immaculate white as in most of the networking websites that have become all too popular, Technorati has leaf green as its color scheme combined with white and grey which is a welcome change. The website is designed well and everything is presented wonderfully right in front of your eyes, so that you can pick and choose from among the links that you want to visit and information you want to have. You can claim your blog instantly and be among the major bloggers who are presented every day on the website. In short, it is just the need of the day and a must-visit for all who are on the internet.
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