Filed under: Internet, Kids, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Freeware, Social Software
Glubble makes parenting a little easier
by Ian Dumych Dec 29th 2007 at 8:00AM
The internet is full of many wonderful things. However, it is also host to any number to bad influences that parents dread their children being exposed to. Because of this, many companies produce filtering software in an effort to help protect children from profanity.Glubble's approach is a little different. Rather than make a futile attempt at blocking everything bad on the internet, it uses a whitelist of sites that are ok for kids to see. It brings together a community of parents, allowing the user to set a pre-defined white list and even use the whitelists of other users. It's the same sort of powerful social design that make add-ons like Adblock+ so effective.
Not only is Glubble great at keeping kids' online time rated G, but it also gives Firefox a much more appealing and user friendly look, giving every member of the family an individualized login and portal page, even for the Adults.
Glubble works on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and can be downloaded directly here.
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Bartel Scheers said 6:08AM on 2-11-2008
Hi Ian,
My name is Bartel Scheers and I'm with the Glubble Team. Thanks for posting about Glubble and your kind words. It's much appreciated.
I thought I drop by to mention that we have released Glubble Family Edition (or Glubble 1.0) for public download at glubble.com. If you give it a try I think you'll find it fair to say that we super improved features and functionality to an entire new product actually.
Thanks again for your support.
Best regards,
Bartel Scheers
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