Flixster Announces Support for New OpenSocial APIs

Flixster Announces Support for New OpenSocial APIs

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Flixster today announced support for the new OpenSocial API that is being launched by Google as a fundamental step toward quickly and easily making the web more social. Flixster was demonstrated as a featured social community during last night's launch of OpenSocial.

Flixster is a social application that lets people rate, review, discover and socialize around films. Launched in January of 2006, Flixster has quickly grown to the largest movie community and movie rating site on the web where over 10 million monthly users share their movie preferences.

OpenSocial will allow Flixster to quickly expand its availability to movie lovers by extending the reach of Flixster's service to users within the communities on MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, and Ning via the OpenSocial API.

"The web itself is becoming a social platform and we are excited about Google's efforts to make integrating social applications easier," said Flixster co-founder and CEO Joe Greenstein. "With the release of OpenSocial, we will be able to provide movie fans and their friends access to Flixster on any community on the web."

About Flixster

Flixster is a social utility for people who love movies - a destination where people can rate, review, discover and socialize around films. Launched in January of 2006, in a little over 22 months, Flixster has quickly grown to the largest movie community and movie rating site on the web where over 10 million monthly users share their movie preferences. Flixster is on its way to becoming the largest online entertainment presence; with close to 1 billion ratings, it is the largest movie rating site on the web, and is a top ten Facebook application. For more information on Flixster please visit www.flixster.com .

About OpenSocial

OpenSocial is a set of common APIs, launched today by Google, for building social applications on the web. Common APIs mean that developers only have to learn once in order to start building social applications for multiple websites, and any website will be able to implement OpenSocial and host social applications. OpenSocial will bring more powerful and pervasive social capabilities to the web because developers will be able to develop and distribute their applications more easily. Users will be able to enjoy new social features faster and in more of the websites, web applications, and social networks they use. More information is available at code.google.com.

Google and OpenSocial are trademarks of Google Inc.

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