I’ve been wanting to write this post for a long time, but Matt at Signal vs. Noise beat me to it. It’s always nice when someone does the work for you.
Netflix is one of the few web sites that’s a pure joy to use for me. It’s one of the few Web 2.0 type of sites that my mom and other non-geek consumers can figure out. It just begs for me to use it. The emails, the buttons, the ratings, I just get urges to add movies to my queue, rate movies, see what my friends are watching and have rated, see what the critics say, etc. I wish the Netflix team were behind more sites to put it simply.
To sum it up, I’ll point out that I probably don’t even watch enough movies on Netflix to make it worth paying the subscription fee, but I like using the site so much I’m willing to pay it. Now that’s a good web application.
Do you think it is because you really like movies? Movies are fun . I can spend loads of time just browsing cast and characters of movies. Deciding what I wanted to watch would be even more fun.
I don’t have Netflix, so I really don’t know how cool the site is. However, for me, it would be hard to go wrong with a site that is focused around movies.
Well, it helps that I like movies. But, I like books and I’m not spending all day on Amazon using it. It’s just an extremely easy and fun site to use that invites you to use it in many ways.