StumbleUpon Introduces New Explore Box Feature (video)

StumbleUpon has today introduced a new feature called the “Explore box” which allows users to search recommendations on more specific level. The new beta “Explore box” feature enables you to stumble hundreds of thousands on specific topics rather than just being restricted to set up specifically defined categories.

Check out the video after the jump to see the new StumbleUpon “Explore box” feature in action.

StumbleUpon explains:

“We’ve had a prototype of this for a while, but earlier on we felt like we weren’t getting enough results. We couldn’t really do it at the beginning because we needed a bigger index. In the earlier days, if you had typed in a specific term, you may have gotten just five results. Now, we have millions of pages of content, and it will just get better over time.”

You can check out the new StumbleUpon ”Explore box” over on the  StumbleUpon website,  but don’t forget it is still under the beta development label at the moment. StumbleUpon is hoping to roll out their new ”Explore box” feature to mobile device application in the near future.

Source: GigaOm

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Windows 8 Will Feature An App Store Reveals Microsoft

Microsoft has today revealed that their new Windows 8 OS will indeed have its own “App Store”. Confirming the rumours that have been circulating since a number of Windows 8 development documents were leaked in the middle of 2010. Together with a few leaked Windows 8 screenshots earlier this year that idicated a navigation tab for an “App Store”.

Microsoft will now be matching Apple who has already launched it own App Store for its OS X software announcing the new App Store ins a list of features within a blog post by Microsoft’s Windows president, Steven Sinofsky called ” Introducing the Team”.

Even though Microsoft has confirmed a team is now working on the new Windows 8 App Store no other details about the feature were disclosed within the blog post. But as always when we hear anything else we will keep you updated.

You can read the full Steven Sinofsky blog post titled “Introducing the Team” on the Microsoft website.

Source: CNET : Microsoft

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