My wait is over, after two long years and a whole load of client work along the way I can finally say that we (as in Glaxstar) did it, we launched Glubble an amazing new way to ensure that young children only see the best of the web using Firefox.
I must thank my amazing Wife Claire and our young children without whom this would never have happened. Claire has put up with many many months of me being away from home, plus when I am at home I’ve worked far too late, far too often and on far too many weekends. Thank you Claire your amazing I’m a lucky guy! If we are right and Glubble proves popular over time then the worlds kids owe you a debt of gratitude for the sacrifices you made enabling this dream to come to fruition. Thank you!!
To explain folks, Glubble is an amazing new way to ensure that young children only see the best of the web using Firefox. Its a gift to the world and we hope you like it! Its in an early Beta right now and we will continue a high energy development cycles though this year heading towards a public 1.0 launch in the fall of 2007
Glubble is a super add-on for Firefox that turns the browser into a multi user software so that it behaves differently depending on who is using it, so for young Children we can leverage the power of the web browser to control exactly what they can and can not do on the web based upon what their other family members trust. With Glubble kids see their Glubble World, an ever expanding world of trusted sites based upon what their extended family decide. Kids are linked together with other family members across the web. Moreover with Glubble installed in Firefox young kids can search on google.com and yahoo.com safe in the knowledge and see deep results from their trusted Glubble world only instead of the open World Wild Web.
If you have young children yourself or in your extended family then I recommend you join us and help shape Glubble’s future.
Glubble launched this evening in the USA here in Santa Clara with my Glaxstar team and co-founder Willem-Jan Schutte. Many thanks to all the team especially Erik our new VP of technology Jedi who’s enjoyed what can only be described as a roller coaster starting period with us here at Glaxstar ;)
Thanks to Willem-Jan, John, Erik, Soren, Morten, Mark, Surj, Raymond, Paul, Jorge, Adriana, Jose, Juan, Tami, Jon, Gideon, Andres, Marcos & Laura. Thomas and the Hello Studios team, Radiant Core, Jamey Boje and of course the amazing TJ, Rebecca and Kim and Co from OutCast communications. You are all rock stars!
