New Features

  • Login and Join Vimeo Lightbox
    Clicking on most login and join links will now trigger a lightbox overlay where you can quickly login or join Vimeo and stay on your current page.
  • Daily Email Update
    You can now receive a daily email full of what's happening in your Vimeo world. Sign up is located in your notifications settings.
  • Converting time during transcoding
    Ted and Casey added a nifty little feature that will display the time remaining to convert your video during uploads.
  • Better referrer statistics
    Now we record every page that videos get embeded on, check it out in the stats section to the right of any video page.
  • Share on MySpace
    Everyone says they hate it, but everyone has a MySpace profile! We've added MySpace to the Sharing options.
  • Badge additions
    You can now add channels and albums to any Badge that you create. Yipeee!
  • New Hubnut Behavoir
    From now on, the Hubnut will not auto-rotate when it is loaded on a page. This will only affect all newly created Hubnuts, not those that are currently used on other sites.
  • Search Channels
    Now you can FINALLY search for Channels. Use the 'Search' magnifying glass on any page, make sure its set on 'Channels', and search away!
  • Posting to Flickr
    It's back! You can once again post your videos to Flickr. You can also post albums. Do this by clicking on Share and navigating to the "Post this..." tab.
  • Expanded Tag Browsing
    Clicking a tag from a video will bring you to an improved tag browsing experience. Now you can browse videos with that tag in your videos, all videos, your contacts' videos and more. Vimeo members who use that tag most are also noted.
  • New Avatar Feature
    Clicking any "avatar" aka user portrait will bring up a menu of actions you can take regarding that user. Use this menu to add contacts, subscribe to videos, and send messages to users you see on Vimeo
  • Sorting Channels
    Now you can sort channels in the Channels Directory. Just click on the headers like 'videos' or 'subscribers' and it will sort accordingly. We're one step closer to searching for Channels! Yay!
  • Spam Filters
    We've recently rolled out some great new spam filters that we think will help keep spammers off of Vimeo. Of course its impossible to stop ALL spammers, so if you ever see any send an email to Help@vimeo.com and we'll take care of it.
  • Add Multiple Email Addresses
    Now you can add multiple email addresses to your account and then sign in with any of them using the same password. Just set one as your main address, verify it after we send you an email, and you're all set.

  • Weekend Homework

    by Blake Whitman May 9th, 2008

    So here's a little weekend homework assignment for anyone who is interested. Make a 30 second documentary with a complete stranger. Be kind. Be courteous. Be original.

    Post a link to your video here.

    Have a great weekend everybody!

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  • Want to be a Vimeo apprentice this summer?

    by Blake Whitman May 5th, 2008

    Hey there guys!

    We have 2-3 apprentice positions (we hate the word "intern") available this summer, and we're looking for people from the community who are familiar with Vimeo and want to have a fun summer working with the Vimeo team here in NYC.

    Design Apprentice:
    We're looking for a smart, font-loving, color-fying, detailed obessive, design apprentice who can help create the world that is Vimeo.
    Here's the qualifications:
    1. Design portfolio
    2. Examples of CSS design/layouts
    3. Strong attention to detail
    Email your portfolio to jack@vimeo.com

    Community Apprentice:
    We're looking for someone with motion graphic and a strong video editing background to help create videos and promos for Vimeo. You will also watch TONS of videos and help with general community management.
    Email your resume and portfolio to blake@vimeo.com

    They don't *have* to be from Vimeo, so if you have friends who might be interested, let us know.

    Thanks guys!

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  • New Vimeo player

    by Casey Pugh May 2nd, 2008

    Over the past couple months Patrick and I have been rewriting the Vimeo player from the ground up. Today we have released the new player to everyone! We have built a framework that will allow us to add many new features and customization options in the near future. It's going to be pretty awesome.

    Here's a small highlight of our changes and enhancements:

    There are a lot of design tweaks and all the outro screens have been completely redesigned. Thanks Jack and Sox!

    We wrote the player in AS3. Simply put, everything should work inherently better and faster. Videos will play a little better and switching to fullscreen is less jarring.

    HD embeds have a HD link back to the video on Vimeo.

    We've made a lot of improvements to fading the timeline in and out. For example if you move your mouse outside the video, the timeline will hide itself automatically.

    We've created a smarter video buffering system. This is still being tested and would love any feedback

    Total runtime is now displayed when a video initially loads.


    This is only the first installment to many new additions to the player. Once we launch Pro accounts, you'll have more than a handful of customization options.

    Enjoy and please let us know if you have any problems.

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  • Go on, make some new friends

    by Blake Whitman April 30th, 2008

    Vimeo is special because you only see the videos you want to see. You make contacts, subscribe to people's videos and likes, and then your inbox magically fills up with videos you'll probably want to watch. Yeah!

    So if you don't have many contacts, and you're interested in seeing more videos, go out and make some new friends. Talk to that user who's videos you admire. Ask them questions about how they made it. Get to know them. Then add them as a contact. When you do, you'll see their stuff, and the stuff they like. And, chances are, they'll check out your stuff. That's basically how it works around here.

    Now go make some new friends and watch come cool videos!

    That is all.

    Love,

    Vimeo

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  • A little maintenance today

    by Peter McArthur April 29th, 2008

    We're recalibrating Vimeo's principal gyroscope at some point this afternoon. It usually takes about 20 minutes, during which time everyone will be logged out of the site. You'll still be able to watch videos and embeds will still work, but commenting, uploading, etc. will be temporarily turned off.

    We'll try to keep it quick and sign everyone back in automatically.

    Thanks!

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  • Love At First Bite Winners

    by Blake Whitman April 25th, 2008

    After careful consideration, Citysearch has named the Texas Gentleman the winner of Love at First Bite. For his winning video, the Gentleman receives a $1000 gift card from American Express and some serious street cred.

    Check out the Love at First Bite contest page to see the winning entry, and browse some of the runners up!

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  • Congratulations to everyone!

    by dalas verdugo April 22nd, 2008

    Why? Because we've managed to snag ourselves a Webware 100 award. The staff and users of Vimeo have worked together to design and breathe life into this website, and thanks to your votes, we have been given the recognition we think this community deserves.

    The staff will keep working to refine and improve Vimeo, and I know you guys will continue to fill Vimeo with amazing videos and friendly people.

    Next year, we're going for a Nobel Prize!

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  • Take the Vimeo survey!

    by Andrew Pile April 16th, 2008

    As dalas mentioned earlier this month, Vimeo is getting bigger everyday! That means more than just our friends and family use it now. To help us decide what to work on next we'd like to learn more about who you guys are and how you use Vimeo. So, we made a survey:



    If you have two minutes, please let us know what you think. It's hosted on a separate site so all answers are anonymous.

    Comments (52)

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