Saturday, January 20, 2007

Flickr+Youtube+mySpace=Flukiest

Flukiest is a fast growing interactive community for sharing and managing digital media by artists, photographers, designers, musicians, writers, directors, producers, and technologists. Flukiest also provides the technology to launch fast growing interactive communities for members to make new friends or keep in touch with old ones, in addition to providing facilities to store and manage digital media content such as photos and movies.

In general its a social networking site, that focuses mainly on sharing digital media such as photos and videos. You can also write and manage reviews on a variety of topics ranging from books, to websites to even restaurants. Or just express your opinions and musings in your own blog. Everything is tied in together nicely making your profile easy to manage.


Although Flukiest is well designed and has decent features, it tries to do too much. After all "artists, photographers, designers, musicians, writers, directors, producers, and technologists" don't have a lot in common. The reason, sites like Flickr and Youtube gained in popularity is because it focused on one key target audience, and continually evolved to serve that particular audience better.

That doesn't mean that Flukiest is doomed.It has all the right features intregrated together logically to become a great social networking platform. By removing the spotlight away from photo and video sharing and one large community, to smaller communities of 'friends' could help them grow in the social networking industry and become a viable mySpace competitor, which so far hasn't embraced Web 2.0

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