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MiniMovies is exactly that, short feature documentaries transcribed and created for a digital medium. Currently there are only about 10 or so documentaries on the site, but I'm sure this will grow over time. The documentaries are split into smaller parts that the site calls 'episodes', which together comprise an entire documentary. The quality of the video is fairly good, and the video is simple to use with minimal loading time since they host the videos themselves.

The thing to note is that the documentaries on here are not large major motion picture funded documentaries, but rather smaller independent films made by film students and video enthusiasts. While the selection currently is extremely limited, the quality of what's offered is fairly decent and the variety within that selection is even more diverse with documentaries on various issues from various parts of the world.

One documentary on the site, "Dream City by Tomas Kaan" explores visitors to a theme park in present-day Northern Iraq. Another entitled "Dear Oprah" set a year before US president-elect Barack Obama was elected, delves throughout America's more rustic and forgotten communities to interview and examine these non-voting areas and voters. And another documentary in MiniMovies lineup explores the divide between the real world and the virtual world of Second Life. The content is quite diverse, but the major pitfall of the site lies in the slow growth of the site and the limited amount of documentaries made available. In MiniMovies defense however, the site does offer their content across multiple platforms making it really convienient to watch their content.

The Overall Ratings for Mini Movies:
Show Diversity: (4/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (4/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (3/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (1/5)
Based on the annoyance level of advertisements on this site, the amount of ads, and the volatility of ads appearing on the page.
The lower the rating, the less annoying the ads are.

Total Score: 17/20

MiniMovies is impressive as a documentary site, while the number of documentaries is limited they almost make up for it by having such a rich collection of documentaries that span such a diverse amount of topics. If the site can speed up the pace with which they add films, and still maintain the apperance and cleaness with respect to ads and annoyances, they could become a vaulable asset in the video market to customers.

The long acclaimed Dr Seuss books finally have a home on the web, Seusville - a site for all of the crazy and fantastical creations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known by his pen name "Dr Seuss". The unfortunate part is that Seussville doesn't have any real videos, but rather is full of animations and puzzles geared towards children.

The site is a paradise for crazy contraptions and really makes great use of theme to build a living atmosphere straight out of a Seuss book. The Playground features a variety of different activities for kids with characters pulled straight from the books from the Grinch (the Grinch that Stole Christmas) to Horton (Horton Hears a Who).

The biggest setback is that navigation is a little difficult as a result of the sheer chaos of the site, which is largely due to the atmosphere of Seuss settings which are ripe with absurb buildings and forests.

The Overall Ratings for Seussville:
Show Diversity: (3/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (3/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (2/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (1/5)
Based on the annoyance level of advertisements on this site, the amount of ads, and the volatility of ads appearing on the page.
The lower the rating, the less annoying the ads are.

Total Score: 14/20

Seussvilles is an entertaining site, but unfortunately they went down the path of making the site kid-centric, meaning that the age-defying Seuss books official website will only be of real use to children or those adults easily amused. The site has some great activities and puzzles for kids and should be a good resource for parents looking for stuff to fill their kids day.

Full Movies Online, the not so creative or subtle title, is yet another streaming video movie site that collects the assortment of full cinematic movie links out there on the web. The site looks like just about every other movie site out there, and obviously this is a segment that seems to be too overly saturated with sites that never seem to deviate off the path of a black background with box covers on the frontpage. The majority of movies here are from within the last 2 years, and sprinkled with the regular bout of classic films like the Godfather, Scarface, and Star Wars.

The category menus on the left side of the site are just for show, they lead to pages that are either empty or sparse with movies (odd because the frontpage shows a list of movies that don't seem to be listed within these categories). Clicking a movie, it takes you to the standard fare page with a description and the video embed. The movie I chose was hosted on Yoku, a well known Chinese video site hosting all sorts of pirated lower quality resolution movies. It's also known to be extremely slow to load, with load times averaging about 10minutes of watchable video loading every 30 minutes, totally unusable or unwatchable.

FullMoviesOnline.org says to report broken links in the comment section, but there's no comment section to be found on the page. Almost all of the movies on this site seem to be hosted on Yoku, with only a handful being on sites like Share Vu or megavideo.

The Overall Rating for Full Movies Online:
Show Diversity: (2/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (1/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (1/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (1/5)
Based on the annoyance level of advertisements on this site, the amount of ads, and the volatility of ads appearing on the page.
The lower the rating, the less annoying the ads are.

Total Score: 8/20

FullMoviesOnline.org is a really mediocre site, the only thing it has in its favour is that it doesn't have any ads on it which I don't think is intentional but just yet another haphazard mistake by the creator. But the lack of ads really doesn't matter because the majority of movies on this site won't load or are just unwatchable due to the very low quality of the videos (when they work), or the fact that the server hosting them is extremely slow unless you're located near or in China. There are numerous glaring mistakes on the site, such as the lack of a comments or contact field despite the sites navigational text insists that they be used. Run, don't walk, away from from this site. FullMoviesOnline looks to be another drop in the ocean of movie sites popping up in this field looking to make a fast buck.