iPhone App Puts the Glue Social Network in Your Pocket
Adaptive Blue has released an iPhone app for the new Glue service we profiled last week. Glue is a social network, but not in the normal sense. Glue has no destination site, rather it works through a Firefox toolbar that follows you around the web and, when relevant, shows you what your friends thought of the things you’re looking at.
The beauty of Glue lies in its simplicity — as you browse the web and check out pages about things that Glue recognizes (books, music, movies, restaurants, etc.), the “Glue Bar” slides down and shows you what your friends thought of the same things, regardless of what site they viewed it on.
That simplicity also makes Glue a natural fit for the iPhone. The interface on the iPhone splits Glue into three main sections — things you’ve recently browsed, things your friends liked and what’s popular across the whole Glue network.
Within each of those options you can filter by all the various types of data Glue handles — books, movies, music, restaurants etc. From there, you can see detailed lists of what you looked at and what your friends thought of an item. There’s even a very nice CoverFlow-style view for quickly paging through objects.
If you want to try Glue for the iPhone, follow this link to the App Store and download a copy. Glue for the iPhone is free, though you should install and configure the Firefox version first since there doesn’t appear to be a way to signup for Glue directly from the iPhone app.
The easiest way to see how Glue on the iPhone works is to watch this video from Adaptive Blue, which covers the hightlights:
Glue for iPhone from AdaptiveBlue on Vimeo.
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