Our first site in the VillageMind network, tinyCritic, has just been launched to beta!
We are very excited about this site and are working hard to bring it to a full public launch in the near future. tinyCritic is designed for finding and writing brief and to-the-point reviews in 50 words or less on a variety of media and products. We believe that sometimes hearing several short opinions about something from a variety of viewpoints can be more valuable than reading one long form review from one viewpoint. Additionally, the word limit forces a reviewer to distill their opinion to a few points that they feel are most important to express — without the time investment a longer review would require. One of our inspirations for the project has been Twitter, and we believe that writing a review of a movie you have just seen should be as quick and easy as writing an update to that service.
Since tinyCritic is in beta, we will be very interested in taking feedback from users about feature improvements, bugs, suggestions and design changes. We are committed to making sure that the site is as friendly and useful as possible to users and will take any suggestions seriously.
tinyCritic was made as a personal project, and is not at this time a commercial venture. We built this site because we believe that it fills a purpose that does not already exist, we think the site is fun to use, and we wanted to explore some ideas we have had for developing social sites on the web. We hope you enjoy the site as much as we do!