Whether you are a First-Time Buyer or a Seasoned Hunter, if you’re a fan of House Hunters then you’ll love these new exclusive stickers from HGTV.
To earn these stickers you’ll have to check-in to House Hunters with a GetGlue app or on GetGlue.com and share with friends that you’re watching the show.
Be careful though! While you may fall in love with the great design or beautiful marble (hint, hint), it’s not always easy to tell if the house is worth the money (hint, hint).
We’re excited to be working with the Scripps team to bring these fun stickers to fans of one of the hottest shows on HGTV. We hope you love these rewards!
When a couple of weeks ago HBO launched branded stickers for True Blood, Entourage and Hung, GetGlue users felt in love with their bold look and edgy names. Today HBO is raising the bar again with these new GetGlue stickers:
To earn the stickers, you need to like your favorite HBO shows, characters from the shows and stars. So are you an HBO Warrior? Perhaps an HBO Insult Artists? Or maybe an HBO Voyeur? Head over to GetGlue.com and find out!
Hey everyone, big day today at GetGlue land with several exciting announcements. We are unveiling the much anticipated GetGlue for Android, a basic mobile web site, and a set of exciting stickers from our partners - Revision3, HBO, Showtime, Barnes and Noble, Universal, Thrillist, FEARNet and TV Squad.
GetGlue for Android
Since we launched GetGlue for iPhone, we’ve received an overwhelming number of requests from our users for the Android-specific app. You sent us dozens of emails and tweets. Sometimes friendly, and sometimes angry - where is the Android app. Well today, your wait is over - GetGlue for Android is now released and available in the Android store.
With the app users can check-in to their favorite shows, music, movies and books, and see what their friends are enjoying in real-time. Check-ins earn users points and stickers from GetGlue and major brands. The app also allows users to rate their favorite shows, movies, music and books and receive personalized suggestions. The main features of the GetGlue Android App are:
Check-in to tv shows, movies, music, games, and books
Share check-ins with your Twitter and Facebook friends
See what your friends are currently watching, reading or listening to
Earn leaderboard points and get stickers from GetGlue and major brands
Rate lists of popular shows, movies, music and books
Get suggestions for weekly new releases and old favorites picked just for you
Take your favorite entertainment and suggestions with you everywhere
The GetGlue Android app was developed using Titanium - a cross-platform development environment that radically simplifies building mobile apps.
GetGlue Mobile Site
We are also announcing availability of a light-weight mobile web site: http://getglue.com/mobile. The site features basic check-in capability and is meant for users of Blackberry, Windows Mobile and other platforms that do not yet have a native GetGlue app.
Here is the list of main features:
Check-in to your favorite shows, movies, music, books and more
See the activity streams for your friends and everyone on GetGlue
Check and reply to your messages
New Partners and Exclusive Stickers
We are also announcing new exciting stickers from our partners - Revision3, HBO, Showtime, Barnes and Noble, Universal, Thrillist, FEARNet and TV Squad.
Revision3: A geeks dream come true - the fan stickers for all top Revision3 shows are here. We also have some secret stickers for Beer, Kevin Rose and Veronica Belmont.
HBO: When HBO launched stickers for True Blood, Entourage and Hung, fans loved them for their bold look and edgy names. Today, HBO is announcing a set of HBO personality stickers. To earn these, fans need to like various shows, characters and stars.
Showtime: Showtime is back on with the premier of Weeds and The Big C. We are delighted to offer exclusive stickers for these shows. The new Weeds secret stickers are sure to delight the fans of the Botwin family, with their provocative colors and themes.
Other partners: Barnes and Noble fans can now get a sticker for their favorite book store and also a special sticker for Nook. Since Friday, many of you have already earned a new sticker from Universal for checking-in to the Scott Pillgrim movie. We are also delighted to announce exclusive stickers for fans of Thrillist, FEARNet and TV Squad.
Follow our partners on Twitter and Facebook to get hints for how to earn some of the secret stickers. Also, remember that these and other stickers are available in both digital and physical form. After you earns several stickers, login to GetGlue.com and order physical copies - for free!
That’s all the news for today, please get the Android app and tell your friends. Use the mobile site if you don’t have an iPhone or Android phone and check-in to our partner’s content to earn these awesome new stickers!
Last week we released updates of our browser addons for Chrome and Firefox. The update is mostly focused on performance tuning, but we added one feature that a lot of you requested - adding things to GetGlue index.
Say you are searching for a movie and you can’t find it. Visit this movie page on IMDB or any other web site that GetGlue knows about. Then click the Glue bookmarklet and choose Add to Glue Index option. The movie will be instantly added to our index and if you search again there will be a match.
Please be sure to update your addons to try this out: Firefox and Chrome.
Hey everyone, we are excited to roll out the GetGlue MySpace app! This is a light integration that helps MySpace users display their entertainment tastes right on their MySpace profile. The widget looks like this:
You also get a widget on your Home screen, that shows your GetGlue suggestions (freshly made every week just for you). In addition to checking out suggestions you can also Quick Rate more things right from MySpace to build up your taste profile:
So go grab the app and share your entertainment tastes with your MySpace friends!
With the app you can check-in to what you’re watching, reading and listening to and you can see what your friends are enjoying in real-time. With each check-in, you earn points and stickers from GetGlue and major brands.
The app also allows you to rate your favorite shows, movies, music and books and receive personalized suggestions.
GetGlue app for iPhone connects friends and fans in real-time around their favorite entertainment, while:
Watching a TV Show
Reading a new bestseller
Listening to a favorite band
Going to see a movie
Playing a video game
Drinking wine
Discussing a topic - sports, celebrity, news & more
Watch this 90 second video to see the app in action:
Exclusive Stickers from Major Entertainment Brands
Today we are also announcing partnerships with TV networks, movie studios, book publishers and popular entertainment blogs to provide exclusive rewards for our GetGlue iPhone users.
Our launch partners include Showtime, Warner Bros, Random House, Universal Pictures, PBS, Wired, Simon & Schuster, Cinematical, Hachette, Harper, Indiebound, O’Reilly, UGO, 1UP and others.
Branded stickers can be earned for popular shows like Dexter and Weeds; new movies, like Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Clash of the Titans; new books, including The Passage and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; and many others. Here are some samples of the exclusive stickers:
We have rolled out an update of GetGlue API, which now includes support for outputting object queries in Facebook Open Graph Protocol format.
This is an adapter, that takes any URL from over 300 sites that GetGlue supports and outputs meta data using Facebook Open Graph Protocol in either XML or JSON.
{"opengraph":
{"og:title":"How to Train Your Dragon",
"og:type":"movie",
"og:url":"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892769",
"og:description":"As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third faces a rite of passage: He must fight and kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But when the first dragon he can snare is a paltry, toothless beast, his trial doesn't go as planned.",
"og:GetGlue_ID":"movies/how_to_train_your_dragon/dean_deblois"}}
This means that you can take a URL of any page that GetGlue understands and get meta data using Facebook Open Graph Protocol without doing any coding.
What is also important, is that you will get the same metadata for the same object, regardless of the URL you provide. Try How to Train Your Dragon on Yahoo! movies:
This works, because GetGlue correctly resolves URLs from dozens of movie sites to be the same actual movie object. Here are more examples, one for each object type that GetGlue supports:
One last thing to note, is that all requests output og:GetGlue_ID - a unique key for the given object in GetGlue world. This key is used by GetGlue API, so you can get more information about the object, as well as used for a page on GetGlue.com:
We pushed an update to GetGlue.com this morning with a couple of fixes and tweaks, following our recent big release.
We also made a change to the home screen, which we are very excited about and would like to share with you. When you login you will see two new sections: personalized new releases and most recommended:
In both sections, you will see top picks - the most relevant movie, album or a book, based on all your previous likes. When you click on an entry you will be taken to the corresponding filtered view of your Glue suggestions.
For example, if you click on a movie under new releases, you will see all new movies, sorted by priority for you. Or if you click on an album under Most Recommended, you will land on the Most Recommended albums suggestions.
Check it out and please let us know what you think.
Hey everyone, we are really excited to announce a significant update to GetGlue.com, one that includes: personalized new releases for each user; real-time suggestions; the ability to quickly decide if a book, a movie, or album is for you; and a re-imagined user interface.
Personalized New Releases:
Every week, GetGlue scans new releases in movies, music, and books and highlights the ones that are most relevant to you based on what you already like. This ensures that you will not miss a new movie in your favorite genre, a new album by your favorite band or a book on an important topic again. To access new releases, click Suggestions menu and New Releases filter in the sidebar.
Real-time Recommendations:
GetGlue keeps updating your recommendations in real-time. As you like more on the system, the movies, music, and books that are most relevant to you bubble up to the top. This feature makes it easy for you to pick the next book to read, movie to watch, or band to listen to. Just go to Suggestions and then click Most Recommended filter to see the most relevant suggestions.
Is this for me?
When you visit a movie, an album, or a book on GetGlue.com or around the web, GetGlue shows you similar things that you’ve already liked, reviews from your friends, neighbors with similar tastes, and the entire GetGlue community. You can instantly decide if the movie, album, or book is for you.
New Activity Streams
The new streams compress activity from users over one day. For example, if a friend liked 50 movies in one day, there will be a single entry in your stream highlighting the most recent ones and giving you the ability to explore more.
Before, you might have missed an update from one friend, because another one was very active on the service. Now, all updates are compact and you will be able to see what all of your friends are up to.
Streams also include more information, such as stickers and guru updates, votes and subscriptions. You can also now reply and vote on each stream entry without leaving the page.
New User Experience
GetGlue.com has been re-skinned and re-imagined to be bigger, shiner, simpler, and more fun. Everything is focused to help you get to places faster and be entertained. From large covers to streamlined menus and a new Explore section, we re-worked the site to help you better connect with friends and find your next favorite thing.
Please take the new GetGlue.com for a spin. We are looking forward to your feedback!
Your friends and family want tips about books, music and movies. At the parties, in the subways and at the family dining table we often hear: have you seen any good movies lately? What are you reading? Have you discovered any new music? Well, we recently reworked one of Glue features to make sending stuff you find to friends as easy as pie.
You will find Tell Friends on every object page - whether it is a movie, a book, a tv show, an album or even a topic. When you click this button, you will get an overlay with great sharing options. By default you can send the object to your Glue subscribers, as well as to your Twitter and Facebook friends. All you need to do is type in the message and hit send.
You can also send it to individual Glue users or friends and family via email. Click Send to Individuals link on the bottom. You can now type in either the name of the Glue user or an email of someone who does not (yet!) use Glue. For example, in the screenshot below, I typed Fraser - a GetGlue username - and then I typed iskold at gmail dot com, which is my dad’s email address.
When my dad gets the email, it will look like this:
So check out this feature and start recommending cool stuff to your friends and family with style!
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