9 Interactive Social Networks for Your Entertainment Needs
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9 Interactive Social Networks for Your Entertainment Needs
Editor’s note: This is a contributed post by Corina Mackay, an inbound marketer for Attendly, a white label ticketing and event registration startup. You can follow Attendly on Twitter.
Whether you prefer a weekly movie night or to snuggle up with a good book, there are plenty of entertainment-based social networks out there that you can definitely belong to. Keep track of your favorite shows or music, your collection of books or trivia, and even get recommendations of new and upcoming entertainment choices.
In this post, we’ll feature entertainment and social apps to help you keep track of the latest:
Movies and TV
How often do you get recommendations for movies or TV shows from your friends, only to forget them by the time you visit the DVD store? These apps will help you keep track of what you’ve seen and offer recommendations right when you need them.Foundd
Working as a movie recommendation engine that learns about your tastes, Foundd requires some time to set up. After rating a bunch of films, you’ll be able to see a tailored "Watch List" of movies that you might like.Goodfilms
Goodfilms is a movie recommendation engine built by friends of Attendly, which takes an original approach to the ratings system. Each film has two ratings: a ‘critical’ rating out of five stars, and a ‘re-watchability’ rating with five happy faces.Miso
Miso started out as a social network site for movie and tv-show lovers. You "check-in" to share with your friends the TV shows that you are watching. LIke or comment on particular episodes, and keep track of your showreels.Books
If you’re a bookworm, you’ll probably enjoy this highly-focused network.Goodreads
Goodreads is the king of social reading. You can share your progress as you work through a book, create a to-read list, and add ratings and reviews to books you’ve read.Music
For those who love getting music suggestions and keeping track of their playlists, Last.fm is da’ bomb.Last.fm
With it’s integrated scrobbling feature, Last.fm can pull in details on the music you listen to without any ongoing effort. If you like looking back at your listening habits, this is a great way to do it.8Tracks
Fans of mixtapes will love this music network that lets you create and share playlists of eight or more tracks. You can find tracks already available on the site or upload your own to create the perfect selection, with a description, title and cover image.Listeners can play, like and comment on playlists, as well as search by tags, follow other users and save their favorite tracks.
Hype Machine
If you’re more fond of discovering new albums or artists than curated hitlists, you might want to give Hype Machine a go. This site crawls music blogs across the Web to pull in tracks for you to listen to, save and share.You can search for an artist or genre, or just browse all the tracks from a particular blog. You can also follow friends, specific artists or particular blogs that you like.
A bit of everything
If you’re a fan of checking in and rating entertainment, you might want one of these all-in-one style apps.GetGlue
Although GetGlue focuses heavily on movies and TV, you can also rate and check in to sports, books and even topics. Each check-in and comment pushes you higher up the leaderboard until you achieve the coveted position of Guru, giving you the ability to edit item details and qualify for exclusive offers.Stamped
With a recent revamp and backing from Ellen Degeneres and Justin Bieber, Stamped is going all out on its all-in-one rating experience. The app lets you rate books, music, films, places and apps from your phone.With so many of these entertainment-based networks, I’ve undoubtedly missed some good ones. What are your favorites?