MakeFive is a fairly new and addictive service that does one simple thing really well. That is, it lets you create a top five list of anything and everything on the MakeFive website and share it with your friends. The concept of MakeFive was conceived in late 2007 but with its successful implementation of video and integration with Twitter it has now began to gain a foothold and traffic is climbing.
MakeFive literally does cover everything from the Top Five Pro Wrestling Finishing Moves to the Top Five Cell Phones. And as Eric proclaims in the video below, it is indeed quite addicting. For me, it is comfortable to have a go-to list and to establish a sort of order to things and that is where MakeFive excels. For instance, you can create your own version the Top Five Cell Phones and keep it separate, but at the same time your picks/votes are counted towards the overall rankings of the Top Five Cell Phones. Thus in the end, the true favorites and most popular cell phone will win-out. It kind of reminds me of a Digg for favorite things (not news), where you can vote up/down for something by adding it to your own list and then further ranking items within your list.
The service currently permits you to gain points by creating your own list, adding photos and descriptions, ranking items, commenting, and performing other content-creation and socially-driven activities. Those points are then used to rank members accordingly but they are also used to award prizes for reoccuring monthly contests. There’s been a winner every month since last May but there’s no information on the actual prizes that have been given away. On the main Contest page the image below is displayed, suggesting that the prizes include a variety of iPods and t-shirts. An iPod Touch would especially be a great prize considering they are currently priced between $200 and $350 depending on the dedicated amount of hard drive space. The MakeFive team has already created a Facebook App to display your lists of top fives and share them easily with your friends – a smart move that should help spread MakeFive and bring it to the masses.
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Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the post–we’re really working hard on the site, and appreciate your kind words!
We have some neat developments underway, planned to launch early next week. We’ll have better personal lists that will allow users to showcase their own selections and add reasons for choosing them. Users will also be able to link directly to these lists, which we think will be really handy. (i.e. when you want to list just your favorite 25 books for your friends)
We’ve also created a widget that allows people to insert the top five from any MakeFive topic directly into their blog. It updates as voting changes and gives them interesting content for their sites. (It’s also a nice way for people to build traffic to their own blogs and such.)
Thanks again for the post, and I hope we’ll see you on MakeFive!
Eric
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