Flixster: Analysis Of A Movie Social Network On The Rise - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 Dec 07
  

  Joel Liu

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• 18 Feb 07
  

  Julia Lesage

  more 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
  

  Orlin Monad

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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.

  • The concept of social networking as a feature makes a lot of sense.
• 11 Feb 07
  

  Jennifer Maddrell

  Flixster 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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  edtechtalk

  Flixster 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
  

  Derek Baird

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