Thanks to everyone who played the game last week! Congratulations to the 16 players who solved all of the puzzle’s that @glue_genie hid around the web:
We used Random.org to select a winner for each question randomly. Here are the answers to the questions and the winners of each prize:
We will be giving away books, music and movies associated with all of the 8 1/2 Queens. Everyone who solves the game will participate in the drawing of each prize - so you get many chances to win!
Are you game?
Here is your first clue:
Bonus Game
Want more? After you found all the 8 1/2 queens you are eligible to play the bonus game below. Solve these puzzles and then tweet:
But remember you can’t play the bonus game before you solve the regular game.
Bonus Clue 1: Michelle, shift all by 5 except for i, the i shall stay its stand: Sikjwyiyi
Bonus Clue 2: This queen lost her life because her cipher was broken. The book about her was also about an enigma and featured Alice, Bob and Quantum computing.
Bonus Clue 3: This queen tried to dethrone her predecessor in the circus. She asked to kill the lights and had the newsman introduce her as the new queen.
Hey everyone and thank you for playing the last week’s game! @glue_genie challenged you to find Deception and Lies around the web, to win books, music and movies. Congratulations to the 10 winners who solved all the puzzles and were eligible for this week’s drawing:
We used Random.org to select a winner for each question randomly. Here are the answers to the questions and the winners of each prize:
We’ve been hard at work helping to spread Glue across more pages around the web.
In addition to adding entirely new categories, like the recently launched TOPICS, we are constantly adding more supported sites to the Glue network.
We try to add support for many of the sites that are recommended by Glue’s community [suggest a site here].
One site in particular has been suggested countless times by the community: IndieBound. Thanks to some great support from @indieboundpaige and IndieBound’s developer Matt, Sylwia was able to bring Glue to IndieBound!
Today, we are announcing the public availability of Glue API.
The API enables 3rd party developers to build Glue applications that leverage the way people connect with things around the web. The applications can leverage information from individual users as well as a rich set of aggregate popularity information.
The API is entirely REST based and relies on HTTP authentication. The developers need a Glue account to start using the API, and don’t need to request any special keys. Currently the API is free and limited to 5,000 calls per day. For more usage developers should email support@getglue.com.
Expanding Semantic API Family
Glue API joins the growing family of Semantic Web APIs. Previously, OpenCalais from Reuters enabled developers to automatically identify People, Places, Companies, etc. inside unstructured text. Zemanta API, similar in spirit, automatically identifies appropriate tags as well as related content around the web. Dapper API enables developers to define the rules for extracting structured content out of the web pages. Freebase and Evri API’s enable developers to access dictionary topics in a structured way and to tap into relationships between the concepts.
Glue API compliments the existing Semantic Web API family in two important ways. First, it brings the exciting social dimension to the equation, revealing how people connect around things and concepts instead of pages. Secondly, Glue enables developers to get meta data and related links for books, music, movies, video games, topics, stocks, stars, artists, wine from hundreds of popular sites, turning these sites into databases.
Glue API Features
1. Individual Attention
Access user lifestream
For each user get the lists of recent books, music, movies and other things they are interested in.
User Profiles
Rich profiles with list of likes, claimed services as well as the lists of friends and followers.
Send in updates
Post visits, likes, comments and replies on behalf of Glue users from your application.
2. Social Attention
Find people around things
For any book, movie or an album lookup users interested in it.
3. Aggregate Attention
Get Popular Lists
Get the lists of popular books, movies, music - made fresh daily. Also, get top Glue users by category.
Stream Glue Activity
Get an instant stream of Glue activity to see what books, movies, and albums users are checking out right now.
4. Object Meta data
Web-wide meta data
Send in a link to an object on a Glue site and get back structured information about it.
Object index
Send in an object key and get back the list of links to this object on popular sites.
Glue API Examples: Stream and Quilt
For this launch we have built a few applications that show you cool things you can do with Glue API. They are live right now and lots of fun to play with. Glue stream shows you what is happening on Glue right now. Watching it is like watching the pulse of the web. Quilt is the opposite, since it displays the aggregate of what was popular on Glue in the last seven days. For each object you can see the rank and the people who made it popular.
Got an idea for a Glue App or how to integrate Glue with your service? Go for it! We are here to support you and to help you rock the world using our API. We look forward to seeing what you will build.
The preview of Glue API launched a few weeks ago with a developer challenge. The grand prize is an all expenses paid trip to NYC.
There were submissions that extend the API (PHP and Ruby libraries); apps that used Glue’s data to create games; apps that leverage Glue’s structureddata; apps that visualize the web of people and things; and many other interesting things.
We were impressed by the range of applications built and we can’t wait to see what else is created with Glue API.
The Grand Prize Winner
GlueToGo reproduces the core functionality of Glue and provides a light-weight way to access the information within the Glue network from any browser that’s connected to the web.
Developed by Benny, an active Glue-r, the app was built so that Benny could benefit from Glue while at work, where he was unable to install the browser extension. GlueToGo extends Glue’s functionality to current users while opening up the service to a group of new, potential users.
Until the Glue add-on is made available for other browsers, users of Chrome, Safari, and Opera can use the GlueToGo bookmarklet to see friend reviews about books, music, and movies right on popular sites around the web.
Congratulations Benny on winning the API challenge. We look forward to seeing future versions of Glue to Go .
Runners up
Two runners up in the Glue API developer challenge each win a $100 Amazon Gift Card.
UnHub
UnHub Movie Profiles takes the ‘excellent movie sites out there that specialize in tickets, trailers, and reviews’ and presents the best for each movie in an easy to navigate experience.
UnHub sends Glue API the object key for a given movie and top links to the movie from around the web are returned. The user can then navigate to the best pages for reviews, trailers, and tickets with minimal clicks.
Congrats to the UnHub team on being a runner-up winner of the Glue API challenge.
ShopFiber
Alex and I met Jake and Farhan, the founders of ShopFiber, in Florida while attending FOWA. ShopFiber users collaboration to “get the information you need to make a purchase decision easier, faster, with more confidence, at a lower price”
When a user submits a comment that includes a link to a suggested item, the Glue API is called and the suggested item is identified. Structured data is returned and inserted into the comment, adding complimentary information automatically to the comment (see it here).
Here’s a video overview of the new feature built with Glue API.
Congratulations to the winners of the Glue API developer challenge. And thank you to every developer who built an app using the Glue API.
Use the clues that Glue Genie hides around the web to solve the puzzles and win books, music and movies. This week, watch out for deception and lies, as not all is as it seems in Glue Genie land.
We will be giving away books, music and movies associated with all of the Deception and Lies. Everyone who solves the game will participate in the drawing of each prize - so you get many chances to win!
Hey everyone and thank you for playing the last week’s game! @glue_genie challenged you to find 5 Kings around the web, to win books, music and movies. Congratulations to the 23 winners who solved all the puzzles and were eligible for this week’s drawing:
We used Random.org to select a winner for each question randomly. Here are the answers to the questions and the winners of each prize:
Clue 1:
At the end of the first season of this tv series, the king challenged the control of the catholic church.
The new week brings a new Glue Genie Game!
1. Add Glue to your browser and follow @glue_genie on Twitter.
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