Facebook's "Like" Button Having "Zero Impact" on Startup Competitor GetGlue

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Jolie O'Dell
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Facebook's "Like" Button Having "Zero Impact" on Startup Competitor GetGlue
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But we've just learned that GetGlue -- who recently launched an iPhone app [iTunes link] and is soon coming to Android -- is still going strong, just as CEO Alex Iskold predicted. Overall, web and mobile apps included, GetGlue is seeing around 1 million user actions per week.

In the past five days, for example:

GetGlue had more than 1,000,000 user ratings and checkins

Around 150,000 user actions were seen each day

Users shared GetGlue items on Facebook and Twitter at a rate of about one share per minute

It's true that these numbers are dwarfed by Facebook's statistics; a recent pulse check showed that an average of 65 million Facebook users take advantage of the "Like" button on a daily basis. But for a still-young social app, these stats aren't bad at all. And Iskold said there has been "zero impact from Facebook, no drop-off at all" -- impressive given the rapid rate of adoption the "Like" button is seeing with both users and publishers.

Here's a brief video showing how GetGlue works:

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