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Douban now has an English version. Douban is a Chinese website/webservices let users sharing their views or opinions on books, movie or musics, as well as what they are reading, watching and listening now (and what going to read/watch/listen to). Its path of being famous and having groups of supporters on China is quite similar to Craigslist — starting small, gathering more and more users by mouth to mouth.

You tends to share your activities and your opinion of something you like with the people having more-or-less the same feel. And what’s mostly our people doing in this civilized society, despite all kind of physical social activities with human being? We read, we watch, and we listen —- the great art beautify our life. Thus it indeed is one very potential social-web service to be created. I am not sure why there isn’t anything similar (excluding those specific forums) created in English world. But Douban English version would be a good observation.