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Flixster

Yoga Prakasa — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:45:06 +0000

Flixster is a social media for film enthusiasts. Although I consider myself one, I haven’t been very active using Flixster. Unfortunately, while I’m a movie enthusiast, I don’t have the same enthusiasm for writing movie reviews. Sure, I’ll write every now and then just as I did with Across the Universe, or Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, or even Team America. It’s most likely that what I wrote would remain in my blogs, and it’s unlikely for me to transfer it to Flixster.

Flixster’s user-interface can be confusing I think, and its modification flexibility is taken too far, with its sites now resembling the over-glittering MySpace sites. The book review social media site, GoodReads, got it correctly by following Facebook’s lead in design, functionality, and interactivity. As such, there is more likelihood for my book reviews to be posted on the two sites rather than my movie reviews.

I have no plan to retire Flixster just yet. But, I won’t be too terribly active myself. I have put my Flixster link on the Social Media widget.

Brazen Careerist

Yoga Prakasa — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:03:35 +0000

I have added Brazen Careerist badge on the sidebar. I joined Brazen Careerist couple years ago, on an invitation by its Director of Community, Ryan Paugh.

Brazen Careerist is mainly targeted for professional use, but in a less formal way, combining the best of LinkedIn and Facebook. In sum, a LinkedIn geared for Generation Y. It has not reach tipping point yet, but it’s getting there, although getting international crowds may prove a bit difficult, as it’s not common in the culture to mix work and play.

I think Brazen Careerist has kept up with its innovation, it has quite innovative way to present one’s resume. I have not put the social media site into good use yet, but I can see how I am going to craft a new vitae for myself.

YouTube

Yoga Prakasa — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:03:24 +0000

My YouTube channel is a bit barren. I don’t have uploaded videos yet, that is because I’m not a big enthusiast on posting media on the Net (as you may have noticed from my Flickr account). It’s a bit of a hassle for me, which I hope will change in the near future along with my more active involvement in the social media. As for the moment, I use YouTube for aggregating interesting video clips I found in the site (or in another word, an alternative bookmark).

YouTube is platform neutral since you can upload and watch video clips whether you are using Windows or Macs, and even mobile hardwares. Among the options for amateur video uploader sites, YouTube is probably the #1 choice due to its network effect. Since Google acquired it in 2006, its network effect got multiplied thanks to Google’s own massive users.

I found quite a few independent as well as world movies in YouTube, albeit being divided into several pieces due to its own limitation. It might not be long before big studios start using YouTube as a distribution channel. When it happened, it’ll pose serious threat for Netflix and iTunes.

I have put my YouTube channel link on the Social Media widgetized footer area.

Digg

Yoga Prakasa — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:30:36 +0000

I joined Digg almost a year ago, end of March 2009. I wasn’t intending to use it like it had been designed to, that is to find out about hot stories alternatively from the mainstream media. Digg was created to collectively uncover most popular sites on the Web, by means of submitting and voting for the best contents. Recently, Digg celebrated its 5-year anniversary.

I had known Digg about four years ago, where a co-worker forwarded me a dugg article about something, which I can’t remember. I got curious about Digg at that time but didn’t pursue it any further. Last year, I decided to join Digg, since I started seeing lots of yellow buttons with the word “digg” on different contents around the Web, and also to feed my curiosity.

I immediately saw Digg as an alternative bookmark site, and a publishing source. I have been using Digg as such ever since.

I have put Digg’s link on my Social Media widget.