Every week I sign up for a new social networking site just to explore their features and see what’s out there. With so many socialnet sites, I lose track of what I’ve joined, and I usually never do much with many of them. I signed up with Flixster on Wednesday and wasn’t sure if I’d use it much or not. Flixster may turn out to be a useful site. It is definitely like Netflix’s Friends feature combined with MySpace. The nice thing is that users can simply rate movies; they don’t have to sign up for a rental plan. This makes it easy to build a larger friends database and connect with a variety of people who like movies. And for someone like me who prefers to hear movie recommendations from other people, I find this very appealing.
If Netflix was smart, they’d follow Flixster lead and offer an expanded version of the Friends feature with no requirement to join. Of course, once people enter into a network and come to visit their movie page, it would be easier to encourage them to sign up for a plan, download a film or buy a film.
February 1, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Hi Doug,
I suggest you review Blabbit.com as well. They have movies and video games reviews. They will be adding social network features in the next few months. Enjoy!
February 3, 2007 at 9:33 am
Hey thanks for the recommendation. I signed up for Blabbit and will give it a spin.
November 10, 2007 at 6:17 pm
Hi
I’ve been looking inot this recently, check out http://www.spout.com – it looks like it ticks the boxes…
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