5 Things I Wish Glue Would Give Us For Christmas
Most of my friends and family know by now my enthusiasm for Adaptive Blue’s new Firefox add-on Glue, which you can read about here. While I think it is clear that Glue is already an incredibly useful and helpful add-on, what excites me most about the service is what is yet to come—here is what I hope Glue drops down the chimney:
1. Ability to comment on other Gluers “2cents”. One of my favorite aspects of Twitter and the Facebook redesign is the focus on back-and-forth conversations. This is particularly important for Glue because one of its most powerful functions will be for people to recommend books, music, movies, wine, etc. to their friends.
2. Recommendations on new people to follow. Glue has the potential to connect people around their interests and passions who may not already have a forum or social network to go to. If someone on Glue has “Liked” three of the same books that I have, I would like to start following that person because I might be able to find a number of other books I might like to read.
3. Location-aware information in Glue on the computer and in Glue’s iPhone app. One obvious use of this information would be to find new restaurants to try. But there is another, less obvious use: discovering new music, live. Glue could comb the Internet for music shows near me, then show me what my friends (and maybe Gluers, in general) had to say about those artists. If Glue could do that, I am confident that they would catapult from “useful”, “helpful”, and “fun” to “incredible”, “necessary”, and “downright bitchin’!”
4. More text highlighting options, like the ability to map an address just by selecting it. I can imagine a million ways that this technology could be helpful: selecting a movie title and a box pops up with local show times, selecting a wine and a map of wine stores near you pops up, etc.
5. A pony.
Happy Holidays!
