"AdaptiveBlue's Glue is a site-centric product that acts as both a hub and a spoke of the social web." -- ReadWriteWeb

"Last year, it was Facebook. This year, it's Twitter. What's it going to be next year? Allow me to present a possible contender: Glue." - Shelf Awareness

Hello my bookish friends:
I am hoping I can get you all to take a look at (and share) some info about Glue. In the not-so-distant past, I've waxed poetic about Glue and how it can/will revolutionize online book curation. Yes, I've loved and talked about them all along, and --BIG DISCLAIMER-- EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE A NOW A CLIENT, the truth is I would still be talking about them today regardless (shh - let's keep that part between us). 

You see, the Glue folks just keep improving their offering, and I wanted you, my bookish darlings, to be aware of some updates that make Glue even more useful for passionate readers like us.

Glue is still doing the cool thing it does best: with Glue, book recommendations and reviews find YOU (the Glue review bar lives on your browser and goes where you go). But, the Glue book search-and-share experience is now more streamlined and much more feature-rich:

• Glue now has a dedicated social website, complete with game-like features: collect "stickers" and compete to become the world wide web "Guru" of your favorite books. So, while the Glue bar still goes to all the online bookish places you go (be that IndieBound, Amazon, Random House, LibraryThing, HuffPo, etc.), now it also has its own permanent home on the web.
• Glue catalogs your tastes, as well as those of your friends and what is popular with users across the network - then recommends titles to you based on any or all of these permutations.
• New features to ensure your privacy: the Glue system is completely opt-in for users and opt-out for publishers, and now includes a three-tiered system of privacy options that you can easily toggle between.

A lot of our friends in the book community are already hip to Glue (Rich Rennicks over at Word Hoarder has been a big fan for awhile), but the more of us who start using Glue, the better it will be at helping us all find and share the books we love (and those we don't love so much, for that matter). Please take a look at the site, and please tell other bookish peeps about Glue.

Curious what your bookish tweeps have to say about Glue? Here is a bit of Glue TwitterChatter: http://delicious.com/adaptivebluepr/twitter

If you need more info, have specific questions, or plan to write an article/blog post and want to chat with Fraser Kelton at Glue, just let me know.

xo

~ Kat