THE DREAM IN ACTION

As the Adaptive Blue team wrote in their blog post about this new release, this update is “One Small Step for Glue, One Giant Leap for Usability”, and they are right. Before today, I always thought of Glue as the intangible social network. The data was out there, and valuable, but it wasn’t easy or clear how I could share or analyze that data. Now it’s easy to do that. Now with the profile page on GetGlue.com/ryangraves I’m defined by the content that I define as favorites. I love that.

The GetGlue team has done an awesome job of listening to their user community to figure out how to make the experience better and better. Here’s what they said about listening to their community.

We’ve heard consistently from the community that one way to improve the Glue experience is to break free from the small overlay and provide a richer experience for browsing a user’s collection of books, movies, and music.

Today, with the launch of Profile and Object pages on GetGlue.com, we’re taking the first of many planned steps to address this.

Here’s a view, a description and some *thoughts on the value that these new features provide to it’s users and the web in general.

Profile Pages:

Profile pages allow you to review and share your collection of movies, books, and music. The pages highlight your activity across popular websites and show the books, movies, and music that you have visited, liked and commented on.

*There are other social networks that help define a person by seeing who their friends with, who they follow, and their thoughts (Twitter), but Glue for the first time allows the content to define the person, maybe the most accurate measure yet.

Object Pages:

Every object now has its own page. Whether it’s a book, movie, restaurant, or person (see above), everything is represented.

Each object page shows Glue-rs who have visited that object around the web. It front-loads the information to show your friends first. You can also access the best links for that object and discover similar items.

*The reason I think that this is so powerful is that it creates a very visible community around anything. Sites like Yelp, CitySearch (for restaurants), or even RottenTomatoes (for movies) will soon realize the value of pulling in the information Glue holds to make their sites more user oriented and dynamic.

What I’m most pumped about here is that this is just one step that the Glue team is making towards improving the usability and experience of their product. As they do a better and better job of displaying the mass amounts of data that they are collecting with their technology, the value of it will become more and more obvious and usable.

One of the most fun things for me is to figure out new opportunities and applications for the technologies that are being released. If you’d like to help out the Glue team with your feedback get in touch with @fraser on Twitter or send me your thoughts and I’ll pass them along.

Check out my profile and access yours by going to www.getglue.com/yourGlueUsername