Get the free Glubble iPhone app today!

At Glubble we love taking family pictures and uploading them to our Family Timeline. We are happy to announce that the free Glubble iPhone app has arrived in the iTunes store!

You can now download it and start uploading photos to your Family Timeline, wherever you are.

Click here to download the free Glubble iPhone app from the iTunes store.

And don’t forget! We still have a 25% Christmas discount on our Glubble Premium membership.

With a premium membership you can upload, store, and share unlimited high quality family photos using our unique Family Timeline service. You are going to need that once you start uploading those photos from your iPhone!

Use the following promotion code when you upgrade to premium :

6VP9L4

Login to your family page and then upgrade via your account settings or click here.

This offer will expire January 1st 2010.

On behalf of the Glubble team I  wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Happy shooting!

PS. Andoid phone users, our Andoid app will arrive shortly

Glubble v1.x: time for a new experience and upgrade to V2

Glubble launched with a first version of our kids browser in 2007. It was a first experiment which we kept improving using the feedback we received from our users. In 2008, we redesigned the entire service and added a family component to it. We will now shut down Glubble V1.x.

Glubble v2 is now live for almost a year and most of our users have migrated to this new version. It has brought tons of improvements. The Kids browser is themable, we added social networking features so that children could chat with the entire (extended) family. We introduced family photos and events. We added lots of new content, including new green and environmental collections.

For parents and caretakers we brought more flexibility to broaden the Internet experience for each child. Personal collections, the ability to turn on collections of links per child, a much improved kids monitor.

We’ve also introduced the Family Timeline, a unique photo service that allows families to upload, store, view and share their most important family memories. It was featured in many different media during launch (see here and here for example), and has become an integral part of the family experience Glubble provides.

Furthermore, Glubble version 1 doesn’t work on the latest version of Firefox (3.5). We can’t support older versions of Firefox anymore, especially since Mozilla (the creator of Firefox) urges its users to upgrade to the latest version as it is a lot faster and more secure.

Because most of our users have migrated to the new Glubble for families we now feel it is time to close V1. It uses a very different (and incompatible) infrastructure. So if you are still using Glubble V1.x we urge you to upgrade immediately to the latest version of Glubble, V2.0.4.8. You can download the latest version here.

Glubble V1.x will no longer be available starting Wednesday September 10 16th 2009. We would like to thank all our users that enjoyed this version and helped us improve it over time. We hope to welcome the last users of V1.x  on our new Glubble for families service.

Sharing photos from your Family Timeline

Last month we introduced the Family Timeline, a unique service that allows you to upload, store and share your family photos. With your Family Timeline you can visually navigate through time and easily find your most important family memories.

An important new functionality is that you can now share photos with anyone outside your family in a few easy steps.
No need to send large photo files to friends and family via e-mail. With the Family Timeline you can set up a personal share page that only people you want to share photos with can access. You remain in control of your privacy.

You can click on any image below to see a larger version.

Sharing photos using your Family Timeline can be done in 4 easy steps:

1. Locate the photos you want to share on your Family Timeline and press on the share button next to your photos

2. Select the photos that you would like to share and add a personal message to them

3. Specify the e-mail addresses of friends that you would like to share your photos with

4. Send out an e-mail invitation that allows your friends to see the photos

Glubble takes care of the rest.  We automatically create a personal page for you and your friends to enjoy the photos you selected.  As you can see from the example at the top of this post, your personal message is placed right next to the photos.Your friends can now enjoy your photos, and they can download larger versions by clicking on the photos that they would like a copy of.

Sharing photos via your Family Timeline is convenient and fun, especially when you only want to share a selection of photos with your friends. No more full e-mail boxes. Try it yourself! It’s safe and fun to do!

About Twitter, Family bonding and Golf

Besides at this web magazine Glubble also can be found on Twitter, and even has its own Facebook Fan group. For us these social media are not only simple and effective tools to communicate news about Glubble to our users. More important imo is the opportunity, especially with Twitter, that all our Twitter followers and those we follow back provide us to learn about your findings, ideas, and research in areas of similar interest like parenting, family, children and the Internet.

Every day, usually early in the morning, when I scroll through the hundreds of tweets Glubble receives it amazes me how much collective knowledge, understanding, wonderful life stories and fun stuff we seem be able to congregate. Many times true gems.

One of these gems I discovered the other day is from @openzine who provided a link to a wonderful story of a father from Grafton MA — a professional Golf teacher, that introduced his young son to playing Golf and in the process learned a lot about parent-child bonding.

Reading the article was not only fun but very inspirational too.

Here’s how the article “How to Introduce Golf to Your Child” starts:

“One of the great things about parenting and fatherhood/motherhood is introducing new activities to your child or children. Young children who bond with their father/mother during their younger years are much more likely to grow up to be happy, confident, well-adjusted individuals. Interacting with your children builds a bond that will last forever. It lets the child know he or she is loved and appreciated. It opens the door for sharing problems and concerns when the need arises. It helps the parent get to know and understand the uniqueness of each child. It is also happens to be a great stress reducer for overworked parents. And in today’s environment that is extremely important for creating the ever illusive balance in life that many parents strive to achieve.”

The article continues explaining who to deal best with young children to your own passions, in this case Golf, and how important it is to keep the fun aspect very much alive.

I think this is an article very worthwhile to read and clearly shows their is much to learn from eachother.

You can find the article here.

You can find Glubble on Twitter here.

And for those who like to join us at our Facebook Fan Group you’ll find us here.

Switch to the Kid’s Browser

Within Glubble each of your children has an individual homepage that gives them access to thousands of carefully selected Web sites bursting full of fun activities, sharing and viewing photos in the family’s Photo Album and sending messages to you and other family members. The Kids Page is a safe environment in which your child can only access and search web sites you have pre-approved.

In order to get access to the Kids Page you need to create at least one child profile in your Family Page.

Go to ‘My Account’ at the right top of your Family Page, click the tab ‘Users’, and select ‘Child’.

Once you’ve added the profile information, click the ‘Save’ button and go back to the Family Page.

Now you can easily switch to the Kids Page of this child. There are 2 ways to do this. First, if you move your mouse to the profile picture of your child on your Family Page, you will see a menu appear that allows you to switch to that child profile. Select the “Switch to Lisa” option and you are taken to Lisa’s personal Kids Page.

Remember that the Kids Page is a safe environment for your child. The only way to get out of this safe environment is to know the family password. Be sure to remember it when you change to the Kids Page otherwise you can’t get back!

Another way to switch to your child’s Kids Page is to click the Kids Page icon in your browser tool bar.

To get back to the Family Page, click the ‘unlock’ button, and type the family password.

Tip: Do you have more than one child registered? You can easily switch between their personal Kids Pages by clicking on their large profile photo in the Kids Page. A dialogue will appear in which you can select another child and you are immediately switched to that child’s personal Kids Page.

Tip: Are you using a computer with the entire family? Please be sure that you switch to a Kids Page before you close Firefox. That way Firefox will automatically start up in the protected child’s mode.

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