Is It Real #8: MyGlu – “gluing” together your social networks applications

September 07, 2008 By: cboyer Category: Is It Real

Happy Sunday – the weekend is almost over. But before you head back to work, make sure to vote on today’s Is It Real? contender.

For those of you new to Is It Real?, it’s a simple concept: we provide a company name and description, and your job – if you choose to accept it – is to vote on if you think it is a real company or not. We tally your votes all week long, and reveal the real answer on Friday.

One caveat – you cannot use the internet in anyway to help guess your answer. Ready? Then let’s get started:

Today’s company is called MyGlu – a web 2.0 open-source API that allows users to begin threading together information from a variety of social network sites, and presents it in a single dashboard-like interface. Taken from the website directly, here is a brief description of their services:

No two social networks are alike. Taking this into account, MyGlu is designed to aggregate key information from all these sites, and give users an easy-interface to share and update data.

With already existing APIs for MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, Friend-Feed and Spokeo (to name a few), MyGlu is a much-needed application is the clouded web 2.0 space.

So friends, we must ask – Is MyGlu Real?

Is MyGlu a real web 2.0 application?

Yes - surely it must be real. After all, it sounds a lot like a previous yooRyoo post. (50%, 2 Votes)
Maybe - I am not sure. Can there be an open-source API that is free? (50%, 2 Votes)
No - MyGlu cannot be real. I try to keep MySpace and Facebook separate at all times! (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 4

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