Glue Toolbar, A First for Usefulness in Social Networking

by irms

I’ve been waiting for social networking to be useful to me.  Up to now it’s simply been a ‘neat thing’ but not so very useful.  Not even LinkedIn really does it for me.

Well, that may change.  I just heard about this tool that let’s you know what your friends (I use the term loosely) think about what ever it is you’re looking at.

Couple of quick features and then I’ll leave you to try it for  yourself:

  1. To participate you can either “like” something or add your “two cents” — a short, 140 character, Twitter-like comment. You can also tell Glue to automatically Twitter whatever you put in your two cents.
  2. Now, whenever you visit a page that contains something Glue is aware of — a book, album, restaurant, etc. — the Glue Bar will drop down and give you access to your friends’ reviews and opinions. To the left side of the screen are your friends, on the right side you’ll find the last 20 people that visited the page, regardless of whether or not you’re following them.
  3. Firefox only for the moment, but support for other things soon.

(excerpts from Webmonkey)

Personally, I’d rather have the opinions of people I know than strangers when it comes to things like movies and books, but hey, I’m open to ideas, and this bar gives you both.