CultureClique.com - I need your feedback!

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Dennis
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Hello all,

My other day job, besides working on The Cult, is doing online marketing for a web design company.  The president of the company (and my boss) has recently completed a passion project that him and a friend funded and conceptualized themselves.  It's a social networking site called Culture Clique.  Now, before you go running for the hills at the mention of "another social networking" site, just please trust and believe me that I wouldn't be wasting your time here if I didn't think this site offered something a little different than the rest.

The basic premise of Culture Clique is that you write and submit reviews on your favorite things.  Video games, TV shows, Movies, Books, Authors, Cars, Sports, etc.  But where the site does it different is, you form cliques and invite friends into your network based on similar interests.  The site operates under the fundamental belief that, you'll always trust a friend's review over a critics.  If someone you know and consider your friend tells you to check out the show 'Mad Men' (and you should), that might be enough to get you to check it out... rather than AMC itself telling you how great it is, and how many Golden Globes it won, via a commercial spot.

Culture Clique

The site aims to become the web's fastest free resource of reviews.

This post isn't promotion for Culture Clique though.  Rather, I'm inviting you all to check out the site so you can tell me where it succeeds, where it fails, where it can use some love... and basically, if it all makes sense to you.  This isn't going to be a questionaire.  But please, after you've created a free account and spent enough time on the site, be thorough with your feedback and critique.  The site is still in a 'soft beta release' phase.  So we have the time to work out kinks still.

So go check it out please: http://www.cultureclique.com

Then feedback it here in this thread.  Thanks, all!

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thirstygerbil
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I'll check it out, definitely.

One small thing I noticed already, is that the organization system of reviews, because it is fed by the users, has the potential to suffer from Multiple names/Multiple spellings syndrome. For instances, Cormac McCarthy has two entires; one for cormac mccarthy and one for Cormac McCarthy. I see that this could potentially cause some frusteration in the future. Is there a way to ensure consistency with spelling and capitalization?

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Mricpx
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Looks pretty good, but I've never really written any reviews before so I don't know.

 

thirstygerbil, are you Celeb Ross?

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Mricpx wrote:

thirstygerbil, are you Celeb Ross?

'tis I. Did the avatar give it away? I try to keep, if not the same username, at least the same avatar from site to site.

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Mricpx
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Yeah, but I only noticed because of the review of 6 Sick Hipsters, which I remember seeing on this site before.

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