StumbleUpon has just launched its Web-Toolbar, which means you no longer have to download the toolbar software and install it on your browser. Though I won’t switch to the Web-toolbar from the browser plugin, I certainly think web toolbar is a great feature to have. It makes stumbling so much more easier without the browser toolbar. StumbleUpon is the best source of information and thats exactly why I spend most of my time on it (Stumble Profile: TNerd).

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To use the web toolbar go to StumbleUpon and click on any of the recommended sites and the toolbar will immediately appear on top of the page. StumbleUpon’s team has tried to replicate most of the functionality of browser based toolbar to web toolbar but there is still a long way to go.

I tried using the toolbar but as strange as it may sound, web toolbar does not offer any login functionality, instead it only lets users to register with the service and precisely for this reason I was not able to stumble sites using the web toolbar.

Another feature StumbleUpon announced is its partner program with sites like Howstuffworks etc. Going forward you will start seeing Digg-like StumbleUpon badges on the article pages. Though these badges will let you vote for the article unlike Digg, it will also launch StumbleUpon web toolbar using which the user can view other similar articles on the same site.

The badge functionality is currently available only on the partner sites; however, it will be open to all the blogs and sites in the future. The functionality is currently limited only to the partner sites as it is still being fine-tuned and optimized for the larger audience.

Overall its nice to see Stumbleupon making it easier for people use its services which in turn helps Stumble gain more audiance.

This is a guest post by Syed Abbas from Technology Nerd. For more web media news and tips please visit the blog or subscribe to its RSS.