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Flixster is a free Online Database of information about Film s and Actor s. It includes Social features such as the ability for individual users to review and rate films and to compare their ratings with invited friends to assess compatibility in film tastes. Started in January 2006, the site administrators avoided heavy promotion until November 2006 in order to improve the service. Flixster Claims 5 Million Users…I Believe Them Report from Mashable.com Between November 2006 and January 2007, the number of daily page views by Alexa Toolbar users rose from fewer than 20 million per day to around 50 million per day. Page view provided by Alexa As a consequence of this rise in popularity, the website has been discussed on numerous Internet blogs. More mainstream commentators are also starting to mention the site. BBC News article mentioning the possibility of viewing Flixster clips on mobile phones SIZE STATISTICS As of 13 August 2007 , Flixster's home page boasted the following statistics Flixster homepage :
THE FLIXSTER TEAM The site is maintained by a group of administrators. These administrators oversee the forums to ensure suitable language and topics are used, control the movies and actors that are submitted and publish Skins that users have made to make their pages interesting. There are many skins currently available, and more are constantly being added. In June 2007, Flixster created the "Movies" application on the popular social utility, Facebook . Movies is one of the most popular applications and claims several million users on Facebook alone. FEEDBACK Although Flixster has been praised for its copious amount of content, the social nature of the site has been criticised as leading to over-rating of bad films. REQUESTS FOR PASSWORDS As part of the Flixster registration process, if a user's email address is one of a number of popular services such as Gmail or Yahoo!, the user is asked to provide their account password. If the user does so, Flixster then logs into said account and accesses the user's contact list. The user is then asked to send solicitations to join Flixster to the contacts in his contact list. Al Iverson's Spam Resource: Flixster Wants Your Passwords Sending invitations to join Flixster is optional, and Flixster's privacy policy states that Flixster does not retain account passwords and only uses provided passwords to obtain the user's contacts. Flixster's privacy policy REFERENCES |
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