GetGlue has posted a reminder over at their blog for the premiere of American Ninja Warrior tonight on G4 at 8 PM Eastern. Included with the reminder is a teaser of stickers yet to come! Hit the jump for the image and more...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
GetGlue gains funding, creates very limited sticker set
GetGlue today announced on their blog that they had closed a $6M round of funding led by Time Warner investments, with participation from their current investors, RRE Ventures and Union Square Ventures.
To commemorate the event, they released a limited sticker set which has been awarded to what is quite possibly the smallest range of people ever - six people. The stickers, with their accompanying text, are presented below.
To commemorate the event, they released a limited sticker set which has been awarded to what is quite possibly the smallest range of people ever - six people. The stickers, with their accompanying text, are presented below.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Shenanigans on the Boardwalk (Empire)...
Head over to GetGlue's Blog and read their latest post before continuing here. Go on, I'll wait.
You're back? Good.
Ok, so if I'm reading this right, if you check-in on Sunday you're definitely going to get a Finale sticker (pictured below on the right). If you've been keeping your buzz going with the weekly stickers you're going to get the "Fried to the Hat" sticker in addition to the "The Boss" sticker (below on the left).
The part about "and select fans who have only missed a few of the episode stickers will be awarded their missing ones!" had me scratching my head. How many are they going to let you recover if you were out more than one? The line later in the blog makes it sound like they're going to flat out award everyone who's missing some of them the full set so long as they have at least one of the stickers from the series; they just won't get The Boss if they haven't been keeping up. I guess this is a bonus for those who got shafted due to being a few minutes late on a check-in or got hosed by a bug in the system. For anyone who flat-out forgot a check-in, you just got a reprieve on your sticker count. If you didn't at least get Lit back during the premiere, well, sorry; it appears you're still out of luck.
(I just hope there aren't any bugs in the system for the awarding of The Boss *fingers crossed*)
Don't forget to check-in to Boardwalk Empire on Sunday (as well as the other shows on the reminder calendar!)
You're back? Good.
Ok, so if I'm reading this right, if you check-in on Sunday you're definitely going to get a Finale sticker (pictured below on the right). If you've been keeping your buzz going with the weekly stickers you're going to get the "Fried to the Hat" sticker in addition to the "The Boss" sticker (below on the left).
The part about "and select fans who have only missed a few of the episode stickers will be awarded their missing ones!" had me scratching my head. How many are they going to let you recover if you were out more than one? The line later in the blog makes it sound like they're going to flat out award everyone who's missing some of them the full set so long as they have at least one of the stickers from the series; they just won't get The Boss if they haven't been keeping up. I guess this is a bonus for those who got shafted due to being a few minutes late on a check-in or got hosed by a bug in the system. For anyone who flat-out forgot a check-in, you just got a reprieve on your sticker count. If you didn't at least get Lit back during the premiere, well, sorry; it appears you're still out of luck.
(I just hope there aren't any bugs in the system for the awarding of The Boss *fingers crossed*)
Don't forget to check-in to Boardwalk Empire on Sunday (as well as the other shows on the reminder calendar!)
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Thoughts on GetGlue's new Stickers page
Now that everyone has had a day to get used to the new Stickers page on getglue.com I decided to throw out my impressions on it. Hit the jump for the full skinny, because this is one of those book-length posts.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Stickers link adds features to GetGlue!
GetGlue has expanded the features on their site with a new Stickers link at the top of the page and a Stickers feed on the home page. Clicking on the Stickers link at the top of the page will take you to a stickers page that shows you various groupings of the stickers - Limited Time Stickers, Featured Stickers, Groups, and Search. It also shows you stickers that you don't have and will flag the ones you've been awarded.
One down-side to this is it doesn't automatically list stickers that are no longer available. These can be found by searching for them. The images and info for these stickers will appear but the sticker will have a black bar across it with the marking "No Longer Available". (Hint: do a search for "Callie" to see what a NLA looks like).
This is definitely a boon for GetGlue users! No longer will you be stuck wondering what the text or image is for a sticker and you can immediately see if a sticker is live! Now if you'll pardon me, I have to go have a look and see if there is anything that I haven't earned yet.
One down-side to this is it doesn't automatically list stickers that are no longer available. These can be found by searching for them. The images and info for these stickers will appear but the sticker will have a black bar across it with the marking "No Longer Available". (Hint: do a search for "Callie" to see what a NLA looks like).
This is definitely a boon for GetGlue users! No longer will you be stuck wondering what the text or image is for a sticker and you can immediately see if a sticker is live! Now if you'll pardon me, I have to go have a look and see if there is anything that I haven't earned yet.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Changes to GetGlue's website & True Blood Fandom Discounts!
GetGlue rolled out some new changes to their website today in addition to announcing a partner program with HBO to offer a discount on True Blood merch. I'll touch on the latter of these first.
Hit the jump for more!
Hit the jump for more!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
My wish-list for GetGlue's website...
A Wish-List for Tweaks to GetGlue.com
1. The ability to re-organize or sort your sticker page.
Even if it's just sorting by Alphabetical / Chronological / Category, with ascending and descending as options, it'd be better than the fixed chronological order they have it set as now.
2. A revamp of the Guru system
(This one is definitely going to piss off some people...)
Specifically, one where you actually have to leave a review to even get considered for the Guru position. I've seen too many people "review" an item with one line, like "I love it!", or even just one character like a period, and then they broadcast that they want to be the Guru so all their followers up-vote their review to net them the Guru position. It's lame and cheapens the site as a whole. A Guru should be someone who is genuinely interested and enthusiastic about a topic, not someone who is just playing "steal the gurus" to get the gold sticker.
3. The ability to down-vote someone's review.
This ties in off the previous one. If they can't get it set up to require an actual review (or even if they can), they could at least give us the option to "disagree" with a review or mark it as "lame" or "weak", which would then count against the reviewer's Guru points. Granted, people would still play the "get all my friends to vote for me" game, but it might help weed out some of the crappy reviews
4. A discussion area for each topic.
Right now the back-and-forth replies we get under the check-ins or tied in with the replies work, but they're hard to follow and eventually will fall off the page, leaving no record of the conversation for anyone else who might stumble across the topic. If there was a dedicated discussion area on each page we could check up on new messages regarding that topic while we check-in instead of having to weed through our personal messages to see if there were any replies regarding a topic we checked-in to.
5. The ability to directly message someone.
Again, this ties in with the above point. Sometimes you just want to shoot a quick note over to someone that isn't tied to a specific topic. Unfortunately with the way the website is currently designed, you can't; you have to wait for them to post or Like something (or hunt back through your subscription streams) and then reply to their post. That's clunky and obtrusive and doesn't fit well with a site where there is supposed to be at least a little social interaction.
6. Last, and certainly NOT least: A fix to all the bugs that plague new sticker releases.
Seriously. They know there's going to be a spike in traffic on a topic as soon as they let the stickers go live. They know that those of us who play the "sticker hunter" game are going to hammer the servers like mad until we get the proper number of check-ins. And they know we'll get frustrated when the promised reward doesn't appear. It's annoying as hell to the user to have multiple legit check-ins to an item and still not have the sticker for it. It's even more annoying to see that happening when other people around you are earning the same sticker with no problems. You can't tell me they seriously didn't consider the possibility that people might not use the site as intended and end up with a sticker count in the hundreds.
Ok, end of rant. I'm out for the night.
1. The ability to re-organize or sort your sticker page.
Even if it's just sorting by Alphabetical / Chronological / Category, with ascending and descending as options, it'd be better than the fixed chronological order they have it set as now.
2. A revamp of the Guru system
(This one is definitely going to piss off some people...)
Specifically, one where you actually have to leave a review to even get considered for the Guru position. I've seen too many people "review" an item with one line, like "I love it!", or even just one character like a period, and then they broadcast that they want to be the Guru so all their followers up-vote their review to net them the Guru position. It's lame and cheapens the site as a whole. A Guru should be someone who is genuinely interested and enthusiastic about a topic, not someone who is just playing "steal the gurus" to get the gold sticker.
3. The ability to down-vote someone's review.
This ties in off the previous one. If they can't get it set up to require an actual review (or even if they can), they could at least give us the option to "disagree" with a review or mark it as "lame" or "weak", which would then count against the reviewer's Guru points. Granted, people would still play the "get all my friends to vote for me" game, but it might help weed out some of the crappy reviews
4. A discussion area for each topic.
Right now the back-and-forth replies we get under the check-ins or tied in with the replies work, but they're hard to follow and eventually will fall off the page, leaving no record of the conversation for anyone else who might stumble across the topic. If there was a dedicated discussion area on each page we could check up on new messages regarding that topic while we check-in instead of having to weed through our personal messages to see if there were any replies regarding a topic we checked-in to.
5. The ability to directly message someone.
Again, this ties in with the above point. Sometimes you just want to shoot a quick note over to someone that isn't tied to a specific topic. Unfortunately with the way the website is currently designed, you can't; you have to wait for them to post or Like something (or hunt back through your subscription streams) and then reply to their post. That's clunky and obtrusive and doesn't fit well with a site where there is supposed to be at least a little social interaction.
6. Last, and certainly NOT least: A fix to all the bugs that plague new sticker releases.
Seriously. They know there's going to be a spike in traffic on a topic as soon as they let the stickers go live. They know that those of us who play the "sticker hunter" game are going to hammer the servers like mad until we get the proper number of check-ins. And they know we'll get frustrated when the promised reward doesn't appear. It's annoying as hell to the user to have multiple legit check-ins to an item and still not have the sticker for it. It's even more annoying to see that happening when other people around you are earning the same sticker with no problems. You can't tell me they seriously didn't consider the possibility that people might not use the site as intended and end up with a sticker count in the hundreds.
Ok, end of rant. I'm out for the night.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
GetGlue Book Fandom Stickers - Preliminary List
Let the feeding frenzy commence! GetGlue released a crap-load of stickers this morning, as teased on their blog. Here's a listing of what I've seen so far. More will be added as they crop up!
[Hit the jump for the list!]
[Hit the jump for the list!]
Monday, October 4, 2010
GetGlue Sticker FAQ
The Sticker FAQ has been moved to the static page listed in the sidebar. This post will no longer be updated with sticker info on a regular basis.
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