THE DREAM IN ACTION

As described in their new release, “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.”

Today, they’ve announced a bunch of new features to their FireFox plug-in Glue, which I use on a daily basis. The changes are very interesting and I can already see how they’re going to make my browsing more fun. First I’ll tell you some of the new features, then I’ll tell you why I love the direction that the AdaptiveBlue team is going…

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.

Now, the fun part, here’s why I think this is so cool. If you ever read this blog you probably know that I’ve a big fan of Foursquare, the bar/restaurant check-in game that connects the offline world and your friends via and online tool, so very well. Now GetGlue is doing that for online destinations (topics), and you don’t even have to check in. When I visit ‘Surfing’ for example on Wikipedia, GetGlue knows that I’m viewing it, then when I ‘like’ the topic on Glue it collects more information about my relation ship with surfing. Similarly, when I got to my local pub, I check in and Foursquare learns about my relationship with that pub. Now, I can become the Guru of a topic on the web. I just so happen to be the Guru of surfing :)

Because of AdaptiveBlue’s semantic web technology they are able to collect information (that I allow them to collect) and create an online profile that is likely more powerful than anything I could create on my own. They use the content that I browse on the web to build a profile for me. They sometimes are able to tell me things about myself that I didn’t even know. For example, why am I the guru of Brett Favre and not Philip Rivers (my home-town-team’s QB)? Am I a  traitor? NO!!!

If you’re not on FireFox you need to be, and the first plug-in you need to download is GetGlue, it will change the way your surf the web. It will allow you find more relevant stuff based on what your friends and looking at and it will make you more aware of what’s important to you. The technology has always been  amazing and now the usability and usefulness of the site will blow you away too.

A few months back I shared an awesome Firefox plug-in called GLUE. GLUE sits inside your browser and picks up data about what your viewing, what your friends are viewing, and shares that information with your contacts. The beauty behind GLUE is that it uses something called semantic technologies, which means that it find the meaning behind your communication with friends.

So, what’s new in GLUE?

1) You’ve always been able to ‘add your 2cents’ to an object and let people know if you like it, but now with that comment you’ve started a conversation around that topic. You can have full fledged debates if you like all within GLUE. As and example you can see here that after watching Slumdog Millionaire I though “bollywood is pimp”, now I’m just waiting for someone to respond. Did you dig Slumdog?

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I recently saw that I’m on the top Glue’rs list on the homepage with some pretty big names! I highly recommend that you check out Glue as it significantly improves interneting. I reviewed Glue early in it’s release because, AdaptiveBlue Glues the Web Together.

3 Reasons Glue improves interneting

1. the Glue bar appears automatically (no hassle or delays)

Try it on these links: Album, Book, Movie

2. Easy to let friends know what you liked- just click the heart

3. User reviews – the 2cents icon gives a quick review of the product

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