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Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

gwarrier — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:04:49 -0000

I have been trying Glue for the past few weeks and I am really getting used to it. I think where it is taking me to atleast is like a central location for all my likes / dislikes of the stuff that I care about - books, movies, TV shows...and my reactions to these. And love the 'send to twitter' function.
Sure there is twitter and facebook...but I find it hard to categorize there and glue gives me that central location...

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Keenan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:43:20 -0000

Exactly. ability to see not only what blogs, content people are
looking at but what they like about it (comments) and a list of who
else likes it. I would use this.

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

fredwilson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:56:40 -0000

Kind of like marry glue and blogrollr

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Keenan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:40:32 -0000

Fred, using Glue now.

Would love it if it could be used to recognize, and recommend Blogs. It would be very helpful to see what people think about specific Blogs via glue.

Can think of a million new uses for Glue but would love to see this one sooner than later.

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

fredwilson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:45:35 -0000

I have no clue to be honest

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

fredwilson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:52:05 -0000

If those services have apis and you authorize it, yes

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

fredwilson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:36:02 -0000

Just do it lindel!

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

fredwilson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:35:43 -0000

Interesting idea to harvest the data from all these apps and aggregate it

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

ShanaC — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:03:45 -0000

I'm still finding the weight a problem (then again I have a plugin heavy browser and I don't know why). And I still want to be very careful of intrusiveness. I've gotten hits from Glue on Facebook.

I'm also finding that the chasm cross is difficult. Certain things, I'm ahead of my friends. And I'm 23. That shouldn't be allowed. If the social net matters, it needs to be passively grabbed in such a way that those who have a program can get slight bits of information (not all just some) from those who don't. It would have to be super-granular, extremely fluid, and very passive. Essentially falling water onto rocks. It's useless without finding a way to build a flexible support underneath where it can tell- and it can tell from my silly web from my serious stuff here.

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Randall — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:07:47 -0000

Fred,

I actually have a tangential question. I'm catching up on blog posts and noticed that Glue was written up on webware.com, avc.com, lifehacker.com, readwriteweb.com and techcrunch.com all on the same day. How did you help to coordinate that? That's an impressive feat of coordination and timing!

Randall

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Alex Iskold — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:46:32 -0000

Hi Giorgano,

Thanks for trying out Glue!

We are considering adding ability to point to your existing data in other networks so that it shows up in Glue. For iTunes, are you thinking import a library?

Alex

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Glenn Gutierrez — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:49:50 -0000

I'm a big believer in being able to build a business through the use of browser plug-ins. I believe one of the reasons why this an even better time than any is that people are spending so much time online. It's seems so obvious but this can't be understated. I mean, ask just about any one you run into at Starbucks or at a University and they'll tell you they are online consuming content and engaging more than ever before. If our computers are replacing our TVs as our new source of entertainment then the browser through plug-ins have become the new customizable remote control.

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

ShanaC — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:23:49 -0000

Part of the problem is I am not getting good recommendations from amazon.com. You need to find a way of opening up thier API, Hulus, Netflix- and then ask for people to rate them- and then give them other choices. Honestly The stuff I see sucks. From what I've given you in those categories, you do decently, but you need to force the user to rate naturally as part of the activities that they are doing already. Going to IMDB or to Amazon doesn't link neccessarily the reading/ watching/ of the book/movie/music to what you think you would like (and I need help in that category, I like a lot of stuff)

Rating it as you are doing it does. I forget what I like without prompting. I need to be there, or near there, in order to remember. That's a good momement to get people to rate. Otherwise- why am I doing this precisely.

I clearly know I lurck for thingds that interest me- but it doesn't mean I want to go and watch this stuff. Rate Hulu and Netflix and Itunes and Kindles (or amazon purchases.)
Rate what we do!

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Fraser — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:51:01 -0000

Andy, remind me to pay you the $5 when I see you next.

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

abhic — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:39:02 -0000

This sounds like one of those 'they-didnt-have-it-already-?' features. Great to see it out in any case. I would love to see more 'regular' applications infuse gaming elements to spice things up.

As a startup founder, it would be awesome for Fraser to share some stats over time of any changes in engagement levels etc.

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Laura — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:23:02 -0000

We plan to have a Chrome version of Glue ready for when Google enables add-ons for the browser.

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

fredwilson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:18:20 -0000

Its last.fm for the web with a defined set of domains. After spying on myself and publicly posting the data for years, I've come to appreciate the value of the limited set of domains

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Mark Essel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:57:46 -0000

I learn so much from reading comments here on AVC. Great stuff pescatello

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Mark Essel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:55:54 -0000

I agree, I'm interested in the not so conscious stuff that I do on the web, and want to develop tools to work in that space.

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Mark Essel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:55:01 -0000

Great Tariq, now I have a hunger for beef ribs. My pop loves bbq'ing these up.

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Mark Essel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:39:09 -0000

Fantastic model for growth! Especially appreciate the game like behavior. The dynamics of evolving web games is part of what makes building smarter web software fun for the users. It's groovy seeing all these different tools sprouting up on the web to help us not only share information, recommendations, and experiences but to help build the web's knowledge about us as users. I believe automated tools that can learn about our behavior is key to making the web experience even more meaningful, effective, and game changing.

ps the donation challenge numbers are looking good :D

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

fredwilson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:28:25 -0000

Glue is kind of the opposite of beacon. User driven as opposed to social net driven

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

fredwilson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:28:25 -0000

The progress the AB team has made in the past few months is really incredible

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

LD Eakman — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:55:30 -0000

"Glue now has a "game like" element in which you can collect stickers and become the Guru of a particular item in the service. " - This reminds me of the idea of using a passport to encourage participation and provide status in my travel site! I'm still waiting for somebody to get travel put together the right way.

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

GiordanoBC — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:05:45 -0000

Hi Fred,

I just installed, and trying it out. Haven't had much time to check it out, but it looks to me that it could customize my profile much better from start if it could automatically) access my Amazon / iTunes purchase lists and libraries, as well as other stuff (e.g Facebook games I installed), and build an initial DB of my tastes based on past behavior. Can it?

Cheers,
Giordano