Announced on Radio 1 today was the ‘launch’ of MTV’s new MySpace rival, MTV Flux ( you can view my Flux page at mtv.co.uk/user/trooperbill )
First impressions are not good. The graphics look 1/2 done with buttons and text graphics badly aliased, the forms are all over the shop, and look completely cobbled together.
The site doesn’t give you the ability to easily find friends, instead you’ve to search by username (how am i supposed to know someone randoms username?) and the ‘latest people’ section looks like its static, unfinished and contains the name of the development team… altogether a really bad effort that looks rushed.
I’m particulaly passionate about this because we’re working on a social networking site for a client, and we’re sweating blood and tears to get things exactly spot on.
ah well…
UPDATE!
It appears that one of the main reasons for MTV setting up this service is that, as per their T&C’s, MTV can re-distribute any content uploaded into this system. This means they can play YOUR music tracks, Your Video and pretty much anything else you upload to this system on their TV chanels for free, without paying royalties.
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