Today we are pleased to announce that Glue is now available for Internet Explorer 7 and 8.
Now you can download Glue for IE from our web site: http://getglue.com & the IE Add-ons Gallery: http://ieaddons.com/en/details/social/Glue/
With this release, the Glue network spans two major browsers. Just like it does not matter that your friend uses Netflix and you rent movies on Blockbuster, now it does not matter if you’re using Internet Explorer and your friend is using Firefox. Regardless of the sites and browsers, Glue helps you discuss things you are interested in with your friends around the web.
This release of Glue comes with the feature set previously available in Firefox:
1. Connected Conversations: Glue enables web wide contextual conversations around books, movies, music and other everyday things. Users can discuss the things they like with their friends regardless of which sites they all visit.
2. Smart Recommendations: Glue automatically aggregates friends activity from across the web so that users can instantly see what books, music, and movies their friends like the most. Simply by using Glue, users implicitly recommend things to their friends and benefit from friends recommendations.
3.Web Wide Top Lists: Glue features web wide top lists of popular books, music, movies and other everyday things. These lists are calculated based on the aggregate weekly activity of all Glue users. The lists reveal what things users are paying attention to as they browse the web.
This announcement would not be complete without sharing with you the technical effort that went into this release. Making a sophisticated add-on like Glue work on Internet Explorer was a non-trivial matter. This release is the result of 4 months of intense engineering work, including the complete re-architecture of Glue to support both Firefox and Internet Explorer. The resulting product leverages 90% of the common core and has 10% of platform-specific code, including a C++ wrapper for IE. Remarkably, the final product is light-weight, is not intrusive and performs equally well in both browsers.
Last but not least, we’d like to thank IE Addons team who worked with us and helped us with the port: Joshua Allen, Jefferson Fletcher and most of all Matt Crowley - thank you very much for your help and guidance!
And with that, we will see you all around the web!
