Flixster Has Nothing to Do With Flickr

It has more to do with Friendster, and Dogster and Catster (and Fetishster and Snakester and whatever else is out there). As you may have already guessed, it’s a social networking site for movie geeks. I’d quote their About page, but there’s next to nothing on it.

I’m not much for the social networking sites. I did have a little fun taking their Movie Compatibility Test, which I’m supposed to invite you to try.

On the other hand, the site is pretty lame. Let’s see…no recommendation engine, no RSS feeds, irritating animated ads (they may have turned those off) and it’s not apparent how I can share my profile with the world. Why don’t these sites just copy Flickr? That way, they’d skip the easy errors and make some serious, original mistakes.