Meow!

LOL... I'm cyberstalking you. :)

Sorry... I stumbled on you via Steve G on flickr, and when I realized you had a vimeo account I immediately came over to check it out because I haven't had any time to use vimeo and check it out. It is a great service. Very similar to blip but wow, the design is superb. I love how my icon is a monkey until I upload a pic. :)

Answer a couple quick questions?

1) I notice vimeo provides flash and QT download... did you create the QT or did they generate it. Ideally I'm looking for a service where I can upload an AVI straight off my camera and get an ipod compatible .mp4 and Flash.

2) Does vimeo do cross posting to your blogger or wordpress blog?

3) How do you like it!?

You can not bore me with details on that last question... I'm an obsessive lover of UI and usability... one of those damn designers. :)

BTW, Great pictures and videos!

So sorry I didn't see this until now.

1) They generate it
2) I haven't used cross-posting. I just used the embed code on my WordPress blog
3) Love it, although I've had more tech problems here than on YouTube, plus the upload amount limit has meant that I've not gotten into the habit of just adding everything here. I use both sites. More of my videos are on YouTube since it works every time. It isn't pretty, but it always works. As far as the look goes, I MUCH prefer Vimeo. As a test, I uploaded the same video to both sites, and the difference was HUGE. Vimeo has much better quality, much prettier interface, hands down.

THanks for responding abby.

Sorry, I didn't recognize who you were via email.

Again thanks for the responses.

1) Aha, so Vimeo automatically transcodes TOO QT & Flash. Right? Very cool. What format did you upload in?

1b) Can you tell me... what's the largest sized video? 320x240 is standard... can they handle larger formats? I have clients, friends, vloggers would be willing to pay for larger video sizes. Blip.tv doesn't do larger sizes... youtubes are "somewhat" larger.

2) Yeah, I must agree, the ability to copy and paste source is ussually enough. When you embed videos in your blog do you also include a link to the Quicktime video so it can be "enclosed" in RSS and subscribed to in itunes, Fireant, Democracy, or another aggregator? This is the primary issue I have with Youtube... no downloadable or aggregateable media.

3) so the upload limit is lower here? What is it? About 100mb?

I'll take your feedback as a ringing endorsement of Vimeo.


My own opinion is that youtube is for throw away media. Fun yes, but it doesn't allow the control and opportunity to build an unique idenitity and build equity in that idenitity over time.

They don't provide anything but the crappy, non-dowloadable, non-transferable to ipod Flash format... and obviously they reserve the right to throw out people's videos if they deem it not worth their time to store them anymore... meaning, if your videos aren't popular sooner or later youtube is going to delete them.

Granted google's purchase does bode well for Youtube... but it's still transient media hosting in my opinion.

BTW, please feal free to respond here in the future.

I'm using a tool, co.mments.com, that tracks comments on blogs and sends me responses automatically via email. I hadn't used it earlier, because I'd assumed Vimeo had some sort of notification system to let you know when people responded to your comments.

Thanks again,

Peace,

-Mike