Flip.com - A Social Network Unlike the Rest

As the song goes, ‘girls just wanna have fun,´ and the new social networking site Flip delivers barrels of the stuff. This girl-oriented site from Conde Nast screams cool; the incredibly designed Flash editor allows users to create ‘flip books´ crammed with multimedia goodiesâ€"photos, videos, animations, stickers and images. These can be transported into backgrounds and compounded into slideshows complete with a rocking backing track. The page views are ornate and stylish, without falling into the overly bombastic territory that some other networking sites have succumbed to. The controls are flexible, allowing for all sorts of customization, and it´s pretty simple to use. Your flip books can be embedded in other popular sites such as MySpace, FaceBook, and Friendster. Users can tag, comment, rate, and browse flip books, plus filters allow you to spot the latest and most popular profiles.

“Flip is whatever you want it to beâ€"seriously! It´s a place for you to express yourself, to be creative, to learn and to experiment. It´s to post pictures, write poetry, make friends, share thoughts, find inspiration and to just be yourself. Through making flipbooks, joining clubs and communicating with other members, you´ll shape what happens here. This site belongs to you. Congratulations on finding us. We hope you have fun!”

Flip´s interface is cool and friendly. The Flash flip books are quite spectacular and will no doubt prove popular. The site hosts a bunch of great features, it´s fresh, and it looks great.

This space is targeted to a younger audience and it may not have the MySpace appeal. How easy is it to upload? Can you link from other site, like Flickr?