Hey Lisa, I'm a little confused.
Are you saying that you use to work for Jumpcut and now that you don't you can talk bad about their service? Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV Subscribe for FREE @ http://frenchmaidtv.com/itunes http://1timstreet.com http://twitter.com/1timstreet On May 7, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Lisa Rein wrote: > Hey gang, > > I just couldn't resist saving anyone a bunch of time and frustration > by > letting you know that you can totally skip jumpcut, for now. > > sidenote: wow it's nice to be back to just being an independent > blogger > now and not feeling the pressure, as i did for several years, of > worrying > about the business repercussions for my start up if I spoke my mind. I > gotta tell ya, i'm so glad those days are over. sheesh. > > best, > > lisa > > Okay Jumpcut is OUT for my project. It's choking big time. > > The scary thing about this as that an unexperienced user might > actually > waste a good hour of their time on this, and then get pissed off > when it > never works, and then blame our project for sending them to a lousy > service. > > Here's why I'm branding it "unusable": > > 1. It couldn't even upload the 6, 15 second clips I prepared. > > 2. It wasted a lot of my time before it failed (which is a no no for > any > project where you have had to recruit people to participate in the > first > place) > > 3. It uploaded 4 out of 6 first. Then tried to tell me the other two > clips > were bad ("no assets") -- which they were not, i double checked > > 4. Then it pretended to be uploading them while it gave me a bunch of > stupid messages to keep me there waiting (which implies that they KNOW > their system sucks and, instead of dealing with the issue, they try to > come up with clever ways to make you wait) > > They start off condescending "looks like a great video - can't wait > to see > it" then get desperate and downright mocking: "so anyway, while we > wait, > how you doin?" (while it's been over 10 minutes) > > of course, in the end, the files were never uploaded) > > Conclusion: > > So whew! that was close! This app could have killed my whole > project, had > i not tested it for even the most simplest of functionality. > > I can't believe Yahoo bought this as is. Let's hope they take it > seriously, fix it, integrate it with flickr, merge THAT with > delicious, > and get on with it already! damn. > > It's like I've been out of this scene for two years, and nothing's > changed > or gotten any better except Blip! damn! > > best, > > lisa > > now) > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
