Jennifer Zaino

SemanticWeb.com Contributor

Right on the heels of its announcement of GetGlue.com, AdaptiveBlue wants to get sticky with developers. This week it’s unveiled its new Glue API, some five months after its initial steps to woo third-party developers to build Glue applications that leverage its technology's ability to connect people and interests around the web.

There were about a dozen applications built using the first version of the Glue API, says AdaptiveBlue CEO Alex Iskold. “The most notable ones were Glue To Go, which offered a bookmarklet for Glue to be used in browsers that we did not support and Movies application by UnHub.” The latter creates a one stop site for researching a movie.

The new API adds a few powerful things for semantic web development, Iskold says. He enumerates:

● It’s possible to query, as an example, all the people who visited a particular movie on Netflix or IMDB by URL. This comes courtesy of the ability for any query of objects (such as movies) to accept an objectID that can be either a Glue ID OR a URL.

● The reverse l