Glue: social browsing around the stuff you like
Glue is a browser add-on for people who consume movies, books and music online. It keeps track of what you’re browsing on sites like Amazon and IMDB, and lets you enter your comments about each item you’re browsing, and see what your friends thought about it. The name “Glue” makes a lot of sense,聽because it sticks together info from multiple sites for each product. If a friend reviewed a movie on Amazon, and you’re looking at it on Rotten Tomatoes, you’ll still be able to see their comments.
Glue also integrates with other social networking sites in interesting ways. You can link your Twitter page to Glue, and your profile will show up in the Glue Topbar when other users visit it. The Glue Topbar would be sort of annoying if it were always on, so it’s fortunate that you can click to hide or show it when you’re not on a Glue-enabled site. Even if a site doesn’t have special Glue features, though, you can still mark it as a favorite or leave a review of it.
So far, I think Glue is on the right track. The number of sites we use to keep track of the stuff we like is getting to be unmanageable, and a browser plugin is a smart way to aggregate all that information. As long as Glue doesn’t go overboard with the potential to inject advertising into the system — there’s none right now — it could catch on quickly.
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