Facebook Flixster, lookout Netflix

Flixtster is one of the new applications on the Facebook Platform. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that this application will take off like wild fire. Even given it was just made available around 3 days ago or so, there are already a huge number of ratings and comments from within Facebook.

A great benefit to Flixsters service within Facebook is that the rating is aggregated not just from Facebook but from the site as well. The recommendations are pretty rock solid, too.

The Flixster application does a good job of making itself spread-able by its design of the “My Friends” section. In this section, it lists all of your friends who aren’t using Flixster with a nice “Send Invite” button next to it. Can’t get much easier than that, now could it? Oh wait, yes it could. As far as I can tell, I can’t recommend a movie to my friend. What gives? Why not tie in Flixster with Events, too? That’s a good way to reduce potential usage.

Watching Flixsters recommendations, ratings, and users fly growth wise across Facebook could be a frightening thing for Netflix. While a lot of users don’t want to leave Netflix because of their ratings, recommendations, etc. Flixster is positioning themselves for what could be a nice usurping.