This is an update to previous post: Smarter Connections with Glue by AdaptiveBlue
After the huge success of AdaptiveBlue with their browser plugin Glue, a sort of toolbar buddy that collects your cultural likings while you surf and allows you to share them with your memes, the company finally has decided to materialize its virtual world into a solid social network with the announcement last October 26th of GetGlue.com. If you had your doubts about the steady growth of Glue take a look at the number of downloads at the plugin page:
Version 4.5.11
Works with Firefox: 1.4 – 3.5.*
Updated October 22, 2009
Developer AdaptiveBlue
Homepage GetGlue
Rating Rated 5 out of 5 stars 219 reviews
Downloads 2,118,004
In spite of the fact that the plugin has evolved into a more efficient tool the arrival of this new site is indeed welcomed by users as the plugin seemed somehow beheaded without a physical social network to improve communication channels. The content was all there but inside a bubble of your own. Now there is a more personal contact and we can say that Glue has finally come of age. But what is GetGlue.com and what does it offer? According to the press brief on their site, I quote:
GetGlue.com is:
GetGlue.com is a social recommendation network for interests like books, music, and movies. GetGlue.com offers a stream of suggestions based on user interests, friends activity and things that are popular with everyone. Users can also add GetGlue to their browser to more quickly build their taste profile and get suggestions in context, on hundreds of popular sites like Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix, Wine.com and Citysearch.
GetGlue offers:
1. Suggestions Stream: A continuous stream of suggestions is generated for the users based on what they liked, friend’s favorites and everyone’s popular.
2. GetGlue Profiles: New profiles make it easy for users to save and share their favorite books, music and movies.
3. Stickers and Guru: Users can earn stickers for participating and get recognized as a Guru for things they actively comment on.
4. Browser Addon: Glue appears around the web providing in context suggestions, friend reviews, clips, and a way to quickly build a taste profile.
As some images are worth a thousand words take a look at the promo video and judge by yourselves.
