My friend Michael Hansen of Zendesk gave me the heads up on a new service, RainDance.tv, which this profile (on Killer Startups) touts as indie films on Web 2.0 (the two topics of my blog). I’ve quickly checked it out. And so far I’m underwhelmed. It’s not really Web 2.0 at all:
- no ratings, recommendations, commenting
- no RIA (Rich Internet Applications)/Ruby on Rails developers (no mouse-overs, predictive text, speedy performance, drag and drop, etc.)
- no high-def movies
- clumsy filtering and browsing (where’s tags? how to filter by director? country? sub-genre? length?)
- super slow performance
- cheesy ads
- poor design (e.g., font mixed salad, UX way subpar, web design à la 1999)
- no integration (SOA, XML, SOAP, etc.); you click on a movie and get kicked out to one of a few other sites, at least one of which (Joost) requires you download their player app
Jaman, you don’t have anything to worry about from these guys…
