indrayudha.net v3.0 BETA » Movies http://indrayudha.net The Personal Homepage of Yoga Prakasa Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Flixster http://indrayudha.net/2010/03/flixster/ http://indrayudha.net/2010/03/flixster/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:45:06 +0000 Yoga Prakasa http://indrayudha.net/?p=116 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.

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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.

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