Spout Launches Beta 2.0 Upgrade

July 13th, 2006 Davis Posted in DVDs, Web 2.0 |

A few months ago, I reviewed a DVD social networking site called Spout. Basically, Spout is a social networking website built around people who love films. It reminds me a lot of a cross between the IMDB and Flickr. At the time of my review, I hadn’t really played around with the site all that much, but I could tell that I really liked the functionality and the basic concepts of the site (tagging, groups, film blogging, etc.)

Since then I’ve had an opportunity to interact more with the site and by and large this has been a very positive experience for me, but the beta 1.0 site did have a few bugs and was missing some functionality that I could tell would be nice to have. While I knew that Spout was continuing to develop the site, I was pleasantly surprised this week when I saw the company unveil their Beta 2.0 (or is it 1.5?) of the new site.

With the redesign of the site, they’ve cleaned up the layout a bit and have added some neat features. Some of these features include notification of when users are on the site, the addition of a recommendation section to the site and my personal favorite a movie calculator that shows how many days of your life you’ve wasted in front of the TV. Currently, Spout shows that I’ve wasted 17 days on the 300 or so films I’ve listed on the site. Overall, these features really add to the site and if you haven’t tried out the site yet, I’d encourage you to check it out.

Over the last few months, I’ve been posting a film blog at the site and with the introduction of DFDC, I’ve been debating as to whether or not I wanted to move the film blog here, but after considering it, I think my plan is to continue to publish my movie reviews on Spout and to leave DFDC committed to covering tech and business news, so if you are interested in my thoughts on films, you’ll need to subscribe to my film blog as well. If you do end up trying out the site, make sure to request membership for my Worst Movie Ever Group. Rumor has it that is where all the cool kids hang out at.