Comments on: Glubble: The nannybrowser

New service combines a "social network" for families with a locked-down, safer browser.

[vanelsas]

Rafe, thank you for your write up about the new Glubble for Families service.

I would like to address your concern regarding safety. Glubble for Families provides parents a set of easy to use and convenient tools to support their children discovering the web and social networking. It's a challenge any parent will recognize.
Glubble for Families pre-selects thousands of fun and safe children's web sites, and parents can pre-approve them for their children. The children can then play, learn and discover in our kids-friendly browser. Children can use search and get search results back from pre-approved sites, and they can chat with other family members without getting into a situation where they might get into contact with strangers. We do not attempt to lock down computers, but instead provide parents the support they need to help their children discover the web. We believe that it is important for the entire family to share the experience with children to play, learn and discover the web.
We would love to hear feedback from your readers trying out Glubble for Families to further improve our service.

Alexander van Elsas
Glubble

[vanelsas]

Rafe, thank you for your write up about the new Glubble for Families service.

I would like to address your concern regarding safety. Glubble for Families provides parents a set of easy to use and convenient tools to support their children discovering the web and social networking. It's a challenge any parent will recognize.
Glubble for Families pre-selects thousands of fun and safe children's web sites, and parents can pre-approve them for their children. The children can then play, learn and discover in our kids-friendly browser. Children can use search and get search results back from pre-approved sites, and they can chat with other family members without getting into a situation where they might get into contact with strangers. We do not attempt to lock down computers, but instead provide parents the support they need to help their children discover the web. We believe that it is important for the entire family to share the experience with children to play, learn and discover the web.
We would love to hear feedback from your readers trying out Glubble for Families to further improve our service.

Alexander van Elsas
Glubble

[yanchineseguy]

"parents and kids can leave each other messages, coordinate calendars, and share photos"??? Is this where family life has gotten to? Why don't they just talk to each other face to face? Or is this software intended for families living in opposite ends of huge mansions?

[vanelsas]

@Yanchineseguy

Glubble for Families provides fun activities for the whole family, including grandparents, cousins, nieces, aunts, uncles or any other family members that may not be living nearby but do want to be in touch with each other. It provides family members the means to connect online and be part of the experience of children are growing up.
We provide Glubble for Families as a free service because we feel that all families in the world should have the means to let their children play, discover and learn on the web while being safe.

Alexander van Elsas
Glubble

[jabejo]

This was the response to someone that wanted to cancel their account:

"...Regarding to your question, unfortunately, there is no way of canceling a Glubble Account. The users are just able to uninstall it but not to cancel their accounts."

UNBELIEVABLE!!! YOU MIGHT WANT TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE OF THIS PROMINENTLY ON SIGN UP!!

You basically have people put in their private family information and then don't offer a remove solution!?!? I'm sorry guys, THAT DOESN'T WORK FOR ME.

FIX THAT FAST OR I WILL NOT STOP UNTIL YOU ARE SHUT DOWN!!!!!!!