New Momentum Video Magazine Site

The folks over at Momentum Video Magazine have their new site up. I tried to check it out, but the videos were super slow, and I noticed other glitches. They should have waited to send this thing live, and I’ll wait until the kinks get worked out to see how I like it. It does appear the bulk of the site is built with Flash, which is a big fat check in the negative column. More to come…

UPDATE 11/15/07

I went back and checked it out some more, and here are some more thoughts. I liked how the videos were bigger in the old version, these seem pretty small. I guess you have to pay now for the bigger ones, although from the free preview they aren’t all that big, especially if you are paying for it. I don’t like the navigation for the videos and news columns, the mouse over scroll thing is just too jerky.

The paid option is interesting, but most climbers are pretty damn stingy, so it’ll be interesting to see if folks will pay for this stuff. I would have probably left everything free for awhile longer, to get people really psyched on it, and then offered a paid model. Of course without knowing how much traffic they get, it’s difficult to say whether they jumped the gun or not. Going straight to paid I think leaves a lot of folks wondering if it’s really worth it.

It would be nice if the news had an rss feed, and the same goes for the videos, so we could easily see when new content is added. Welcome to 2007 people.

I did enjoy the video of Jaws II, but because its a flash site, I can’t link to just that video, so you’ll have to go there and find it for yourself. It would also be nice to be able to embed the free videos, like how you can share a YouTube video. That would probably really help them to gain some exposure.

I don’t want to come across too negative, I still think the idea behind the site is good, I just feel it could be executed so much better. And part of what I do for a living is make websites better, so I can’t help but notice all the flaws. Maybe the NEXT redesign will be better 😉