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Julia Lesagemore from readwriteweb, with additional discussion of specialized social networks; I am curious about Flixter; my mail-order dvd list comes from favorite critics' top film lists.
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14 Feb 07
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The rise of specialized social networks
Flixster is far from being alone. LibraryThing is a social community focused on Books, which (among other great things) has a fantastic book recommendation system based on tagging - the technique that we discussed in this post about Amazon. Last.fm is a much talked about social network centered on Music. And actually, LinkedIn is not a general social network, it is a social network for business networking. Other examples of specialized networks include Jawad's Shuzak for geeks and the recently launched Change.org (R/WW write-up here).
Conclusion
Looking at the landscape of today's social networks, we see a dominant generic network - MySpace. While the battle for the #1 spot is not completely over (right Facebook?), at least for now MySpace is the king. However, MySpace and other generic networks right now are not focused on including specialized categories like movies and books. This creates a gap and an opportunity for site like Flixster, that focuses heavily on creating the best experience around a particular social category.
So a few years from now, perhaps we will still see a few top generic social networks and many specialized ones. Of course only time will tell.
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The concept of social networking as a feature makes a lot of sense.
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13 Feb 07
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11 Feb 07
Jennifer MaddrellFlixster is a social network based around movies. Why is it so popular? In this post we analyze Flixster's features and determine the reasons for its success so far. We end by looking more generally at the rise of specialized social networks.
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edtechtalkFlixster is a social network based around movies. Why is it so popular? In this post we analyze Flixster's features and determine the reasons for its success so far. We end by looking more generally at the rise of specialized social networks.
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09 Feb 07
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