Glancee

http://www.glancee.com/

Last activity: 02.06.2012

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Remember the feeling of talking to someone new, realizing that you have a dear friend in common and that you both love that artist only you know about? Glancee helps you discover these hidden connections and meet with people important to you.

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United States, California, San Francisco

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May 5, 2012	Glancee Acquired by Facebook	Glancee, a location discovery app, has been acquired by Facebook. The amount of the transaction remained undisclosed. Co-founded in 2010 by CEO Andrea Vaccari, COO Alberto Tretti and CTO Gabriel Grise, Glancee offers an app that aims to bri...
May 4, 2012	Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee	A little under one month after its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook has acquired Highlight competitor and ambient location app Glancee . The social network has already shut down the developer’s passive location app and all three co-founde...
Mar 30, 2012	Engineering Serendipity	I don’t know if Highlight, Glancee, Banjo, or any one of those other startups you’re now officially sick to death of hearing about are going to make it, but I know that for the first time in a long time, we’re starting to move in the right ...
Mar 29, 2012	Foursquare Adds Bios To Profile Pages, Evolving As A More Self-Contained Social Network	Foursquare today rolled out the ability for users to add short personal “bios” to their profile pages on the site. These bios are limited to 160 characters or less, and can be imported directly from a user’s Twitter account or written from ...
Mar 23, 2012	Luluvise And Badoo Talk Social Discover Apps At London Web Summit [TCTV]	Suddenly ‘social discovery’ is all the rage with apps like Highlight and Glancee being thoroughly tested during SXSW by 30,000 hot and sweaty social media gurus. But the past-masters at this for the last couple of years has been Badoo, whic...
Mar 19, 2012	Glancee’s SXSW Adventure: Battling Bad WiFi, Battery Drain & The Silicon Valley Mafia	Ironically we couldn’t find each other. I’d arranged to meet Glancee founder and CEO Andrea Vaccari at 2pm in the Hilton Austin lobby, during the height of SXSW Interactive. But with hundreds of geeks running around, I couldn’t see him anyw...
Mar 18, 2012	Why Highlight Wasn’t A Breakout Success At SXSW	[Editor’s Note: Brenden Mulligan is an entrepreneur who created Onesheet, TipList, ArtistData, MorningPics, and PhotoPile. He’s a mentor for 500 Startups and several startups. You can find him on Twitter at @mulligan.] Highlight is one of t...
Mar 15, 2012	Gary Sharma’s SXSW 2012 Highlights: Jay-Z, Leo DiCaprio, Pool Parties, Grilled Cheese Eating Contests & More	Storyful's Erica Berger, ABC News' Maya Baratz, The Today Show's Rina Raphael and Fashism's Ashley Granata & Brooke Moreland hanging out at TheDaily's now epic Pool Party @ SXSW 2012. (Photo: Nick McGlynn) This is a guest post from Gary...
Mar 13, 2012	How Glancee And Highlight Are Fixing Those Background Location And Notification Problems	Somewhere off in the future, there will be a mobile app that shows you all of the nearby people who you might find interesting — without you having to click a single button to check in. But we’re not there yet, as thousands of South By Sout...
Mar 12, 2012	Social Discovery Apps Like Highlight Are A Recruiter’s Wet Dream At SXSW	The history of location-based social discovery apps is a lot longer than the current hype surrounding Highlight and Glancee, currently darlings of the South by Southwest festival. Back in 2007 TechCrunch’s founder Mike Arrington noted the e...
Mar 11, 2012	At SXSW, apps buzz is location, location, location	ASSOCIATED PRESS Jessica Weaver, center, hands out trinkets advertising the new mobile app "Highlight" to passers-by outside the SXSW Interactive Festival and Conference in Austin, Texas on Saturday, March 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Jack...
Mar 9, 2012	Highlight vs. Banjo: 2 Approaches to Social Discovery	Social discovery – finding people nearby whom you might want to meet – is shaping up to be a startup trend this year. And what better way to test drive this new crop of apps than at SXSW, an over 15,000-person event where everyone is dashin...
Mar 8, 2012	Gauss Wants to be the People Magnet For Your Pocket	Social bridging: a mobile application built to bridge the gap between on and offline social interaction based upon proximity, mutual friends and interests – is a term I just made up to describe a trend to look for at this year's SXSWi. It's...
Mar 6, 2012	INTRO Wants To Be The LinkedIn Of The Ambient Location Apps	Just when you thought this space couldn’t get any more saturated, yet another ambient location app throws its hat into the ring as SXSW prepares to kick off. Introducing INTRO. But wait, before you groan “enough already!“, you should know t...
Mar 6, 2012	All The Location Apps You Have To Use At The SXSW Royal Rumble	It’s turning into a royal rumble at SXSW — the sheer number of location-based networking apps hoping to emerge from the conference as this year’s breakout hit is nearly overwhelming. What’s worse, they’re often so similar in nature, so it’s...
Mar 6, 2012	Glancee To Release Big SXSW Update With Past Encounters, More Location And More Android	Let’s say you want to use your phone to find interesting new people or reconnect with nearby friends — without revealing your exact location. Glancee is the app for you, particularly if you’re an Android user. And the polished competitor to...
Mar 3, 2012	Foursquare And Glancee Are Cool, But Here’s Why I’m So Excited About Using Highlight At SXSW	The crowds and hype of South By Southwest make the massive Austin tech and media conference the perfect place for launching, well, any sort of app that needs crowds and hype to break out of tech circles and into the mainstream. So what can ...
Mar 3, 2012	Highlight Needs To Let You Switch Off ‘Friend Of Friend’ Notifications Before SXSW	Ambient location app Highlight is a big deal. Eldon likes it, Scoble likes it, MG and Mike like it and Grindr fan Charlie Cheever likes it. More importantly, I like it. Before you call me out for being slightly narcissistic with the above s...
Feb 9, 2012	Glancee: A Nice-Guy Ambient Social Location App For Normal People	Some of us can’t be bothered to check in, but still want to find interesting people nearby. The challenge for developers is how to do this in a way that is both useful and not creepy. Glancee, available for both iOS and Android, gets closer...

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What has the press written about Glancee?

Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning Glancee, among them “Glancee Acquired by Facebook” (May 5, 2012) and “Facebook Buys Location-Based Discovery App Glancee” (May 4, 2012).

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Glancee is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 2, 2012.