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  • 27 Dec 07
    joel
    Joel Liu

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  • 18 Feb 07
    jlesage
    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
    omonad
    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
    jmaddrell
    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
    derekeb
    Derek Baird

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