GetGlue is a leading social network for entertainment. Users check-in and share what they are watching, listening to and reading with friends. Based on their check-ins they will receive points and may earn virtual stickers, receive fresh recommendations, and can earn discounts for over 25 media companies and other rewards from their favourite shows and movies. Moreover, once a month, users can request to have real versions of the stickers they earn online mailed to them for no cost. Stickers are typically mailed in batches of approximately 20. Watch the demo to check out what’s GetGlue about:
GetGlue is a recognized leader in social television and second screen applications. GetGlue has 2M users that checked-in over 100M times in 2011. 75 major networks and 10 movie studios use GetGlue to promote their shows and movies to fans.
Click here to watch an interview with Maya Harris, Director of business development of GetGlue, discussing about how GetGlue as a social media goes well with sports as an interest for sport fans.
GetGlue is available at GetGlue.com and via a variety of GetGlue apps. The GetGlue mobile app enables users to check-in to TV shows, movies, music and books, plus see what their friends are consuming in real-time. On GetGlue.com users can quickly build up their taste profile, get fresh suggestions every week, browse top lists and find taste neighbours.
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GetGlue partners include 20th Century Fox, The CW, AMC, ABC Family, Disney Theatrical, Discovery, ESPN, FOX, Food Network, Hachette, HBO, HGTV, MTV, MSNBC, Showtime, Penguin, PBS, Random House, Simon and Schuster, Syfy, Sony Pictures, Travel Channel, USA Network, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. theatrical.
According to Guardian, “GetGlue raises $12m funding round to fuel social TV ambitions”.
Meetup
Meetup is a web Site that helps you find groups that they may interest you and has approximately 8 million users. The way you search is by entering a word on a field and you declare what kind of group you want to search. For example you may want to search groups that have to do with movies. Also you have the option to enter your location, so the results will be near to you. If the result satisfies the user, then he can register to the group, so he can discuss with other members about the particular topic of the group. To register to a group you have to sign up either with your Facebook account or, by creating a new account using meetup’s sign up option.
The web site also gives you the ability to create a new group. To do that, you have to enter information such a name, a location, a purpose, a description, a theme etc.
There are lot of differences between Hive and meetup. The biggest one, is that with Hive you will have the ability to make friends with similar interests not only joining groups. Also Hive will suggest to the users some possible friends, so the user can find friends not only by searching. Another difference between these two is that in Hive, the user will have his own timeline to post and interact with his friends. This is not provided by meetup. Also because of the interest declaration by the users at the begging in Hive, a user can have invitations from other users. In contrast, in meetup this is one way only. Only users can find groups, and not the vice versa.
Concluding, there are more differences than similarities between these two Sites, so we believe that users that are not attracted by meetup will hopefully be, by Hive.