Just when I’m trying to rid myself of Facebook (game) addiction by Pomodoro-ing myself , here comes along a new social network made by “2 dudes” called Berkadoods. Watch out Sandbox!
Gloo is a new way to communicate online. It’s an online collaboration space where you can post Facebook pictures, web images and videos into spaces where you and your friends and family can collaborate in real-time. People can chat, doodle, write free form text, place post-its and even send SMS and MMS messages to mobile phones. Each element that you post can be moved and resized by you or by other people, and changes that anyone makes will be seen by other people IN REAL TIME. That’s the power and uniqueness of Gloo. It’s not only a place where you can post media and text, you can manipulate these elements with other people at the same time.”
That’s quite a lengthy description to tell us what we can do inside Gloo.. now if only I can manage to figure out how to register Sign up button in the middle of the page.
Give it a try and tell me how it goes. Now I’m not sure what we’re supposed to do with mobile-crossover-web social networks. Was Gloo meant to replace or complement Facebook? When are the instances you’d log in here instead of FB/Flickr/IM/Wave?
Actually I’m a tad surprised because I always thought the Globe Labs Challenge was primarily mobile applications with some optional web component — but Gloo appears to be intrinsically a web app. If Gloo is meant to compete with Smart’s Sandbox, I have yet to see a mobile-friendly version of Gloo — if only I can try Gloo on my mobile for free. Till then, go ahead and explore Gloo.
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