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I have been looking for a website that lets you rate, review, and talk about movies (a social networking site) for ages, and so far I have come across two good ones: Flixtser and Yamji.

Put simply, Flixster is Myspace + Movies and Yamji is Last.fm + Movies.

Flixster isn’t the best looking website, but it seems to already have a pretty good base (the site has been around for over a year now) but it really is like Myspace, ads, ugliness, and they let inexperienced users create skins for different movies. Key word: inexperienced. Sometimes they’re hard to read. Still, Flixster has some nice ajaxy features, letting you rate movies and customize your page, but overall it’s Myspace with movies with some ajax thrown in. So after using Flixster for a while, I concluded it was okay, but it was just to… myspacey.

And today I find Yamji. Yamji is still in pre-pre-alpha. There are barely ANY movies on it. Spider-man 2 wasn’t on it, and neither was The Last King of Scotland. Still, it’s pre-pre-alpha for a reason. And it’s not UGLY like Myspace and Flixster. It focuses more on movie information then social-myspacey type stuff. Still, the site feels empty (I’m still the newest user after 5 hours.) It has a lot to add, but it’s a great start, and even now better than Flixster. And for some reason I can’t write a review (users not writing reviews is a bad idea, but I’ll let it go - for now.) So check out Yamji, it’s got some great potential. So if and when it gets big - you heard it here first!

In case you couldn’t tell, I choose Yamji over Flixster.