A present for you this weekend: Vimeo Toys on Vimeo Staff Blog

by Jack Zerby
September 5th, 2008

Brad, Casey and I just finished working on something new, Vimeo Toys. Simply put, they're a cool way to visualize what's going on right now on Vimeo.

We've also added instructions on how to make your own.

Enjoy!

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- Laurent "Focusmatic" Perret 3 years ago
  
  oh my god...is it already christmas time!?
  
  I think I'm gonna stay all night in front of Vimeo Pulse...
  
  well done!
- Ted 3 years ago
  
  Another Vimeo gift that would enhance the project significantly!!
  
  1) I'd like to see an option in "Group" configuration that porvides the choice of leaving it wide open for all Vimeo users (or) Private, meaning just the founder or moderators of a specific group can add or remove participants.
  
  And #2, forum threads should have branching capability - but a secondary requirement, after #1.
- Andrew Pile 3 years ago
  
  #1 is already in there Ted, check the "Membership" preferences of your group.
  
  I don't know what you mean by #2, but the best place to make feature suggestions is in the Features Requests forum.
- Paul 3 years ago
  
  Brilliant, that's bloody brilliant!
- Mike Hutcherson 3 years ago
  
  i'm not to sure what this is but it smell ok. well done.
- Caroline Martin 3 years ago
  
  So pretty! You guys did a great job.
- Karen Abad 3 years ago
  
  Thanks friends <3
- Robert-Jon Eckhardt 3 years ago
  
  That's just sooooo much fun!! :D
  
  It's a pity that none of the uploaded video's on pulse are visible. (Due to them not entirely being uploaded/encoded.)
  
  Maybe the upload-pulse should be shown when the video is actually visible?
- Brad Dougherty 3 years ago
  
  I agree it would be nice if they were visible, but we decided it would be better for everything to be as close to real-time as possible.
  
  The same thing happens in Vimeoland as well.
- Robert-Jon Eckhardt 3 years ago
  
  Allright
- Stan 3 years ago
  
  Why did you guys think that was better? It's still "real time" if it shows up just as the video conversion is done (call the event "conversion done" instead of "video uploaded", if you need to be super-accurate :) ), and then we can also see the video! Too many colour test bars doesn't make for a fun "pulse" experience, in my opinion!
- walt 3 years ago
  
  i agree
- Robert-Jon Eckhardt 3 years ago
  
  Well yeah, I kinda agree too.
  
  After all, the moment conversion is done is the actual ("real time" ?) moment that the video is available on Vimeo. At least, that's when I go: "Woohoo, let's see what it looks like vimeo-style! Let's send the link to friend X and Y!!".
- Charles Huettner 3 years ago
  
  pulse is awesome. vimeo land is taking forever to load, or maybe its not loading at all. either way, cool additions.
- Clintus McGintus 3 years ago
  
  EPIC Awesome!
- Clintus McGintus 3 years ago
  
  should we be able to click and watch the videos popping up in Vimeoland? Looks like we can double click them in pulse to get to the page but haven't found a way in the land.
- Brad Dougherty 3 years ago
  
  You should be able to click on the thumbnails in Vimeoland as well.
- Mike Hellings 3 years ago
  
  Sweettness.
  How about a stats tool like that other video website has.
  "hindsight" or something like that.
  Toyss.
- Bracken James Batson 3 years ago
  
  You all should win some award for this...it is the coolest way to organically explore the community! This is so great. ~Cheers!!
- PEIKA 3 years ago
  
  Omg
- matthew strong 3 years ago
  
  in vimeoland.03 can you add a bar, somewhere to eat, and a disco? thanks. :)
- Blake Whitman 3 years ago
  
  yes.
- matthew strong 3 years ago
  
  cool.
- Kamil PINARCI 3 years ago
  
  Great idea. Thanks
- Jan van der Meer 3 years ago
  
  Vimeo Art Gallery should hang at the entrance of Musea
- Antonello Salvatore 3 years ago
  
  Oh, really great! Thanks!
- ruggiero torre 3 years ago
  
  thanks!!!
- Dan Huston 3 years ago
  
  Whoa! Pulse is so cool - what a great idea you guys!! Thanks!
- AdamPellinDeeve 3 years ago
  
  Vimeoland is very cool. I found myself wandering around. Haha. Time to try other possibilities.
- Mr.G 3 years ago
  
  Pulse is awesome!
- nagash 3 years ago
  
  cool! pulse is SO bigbrother hehehe
  vimeoland is very cute but I'm not sure it's good for data visualization
- Teah 3 years ago
  
  Freaking insane! Love it!
- Terry Brown 3 years ago
  
  Thank you.
- David Pagurek van Mossel 3 years ago
  
  Wow. Awesome!
- New Frontier Video 3 years ago
  
  You guys rock!
  Thx . . . I love it!
- Cristalab 3 years ago
  
  Do you know that the player for external websites (moogaloop?) is currently broken?
  
  If any of you has the debug version of the Flash Player, you can see it for yourself:
  1. cristalab.com/tips/60164/animacion-de-personajes-en-flash.html
  2. cvander.com/
  
  It seems to happen just for the new videos. Not on the older videos.
- Andrew Pile 3 years ago
  
  The first video works for me, the second one has malformed embed code. Contact help if you can't figure out how to fix it.
- Derek Reynolds 3 years ago
  
  I can't believe how amazing this turned out. It is these types of things that separate you from other video sharing sites.
  
  Which by the way I thumbed through a Web Video book at Barnes & Noble today, and out of the 15-20 sites they recommend for sharing video online, Vimeo was not one of them. I knew the book was a joke after that.
  
  A bit of a rant. Sorry 'bout that. Anyway. Great work!
- Andrew Pile 3 years ago
  
  Thanks!
- Scaramuccia Zenshinji 3 years ago
  
  Thanks.
- aLeXei 3 years ago
  
  thanks bro!
- MariaNYC 3 years ago
  
  way way cool
- rick fiduccia 3 years ago
  
  STOP - please stop!!! I already send WAY TO MUCH time on Vimeo - and now you are adding more fun stuff - I can't take it :-)
- Nicholas Fiorentini 3 years ago
  
  Very very great and original toys!!
- Marc Scott 3 years ago
  
  I Love you guys.
- Phantom Moose Films 3 years ago
  
  I'm sooooo excited! One of my videos made it onto the Pulse button image! (the computer mice one)
- mike ambs 3 years ago
  
  Love the new toys :) so much fun - I want to embed them in my own pages so bad - you people do the best work ever!
- Matt Schwarz 3 years ago
  
  I did. I hope this isn't breaking Vimeo rules though. If so I will remove it, but it is possible to embed it because it's flash. mattschwarz.tumblr.com/post/49518462/behold-vimeo-pulse-vimeo-released-what-they-call
- mike ambs 3 years ago
  
  Oh!! How did you do that :) It would so amazing if you could tweak the toys to just display your videos or your groups... that's awesome.
- Matt Schwarz 3 years ago
  
  Well it takes a little code editing. I don't think I should share it just because Vimeo doesn't allow it, for a reason I'm sure. But if you think about how embedding works you'll figure it out :-).
  
  Also, I couldn't get it to display just my stuff because I'm simply embedding it, you'd have to alter the Flash file itself for it to just be my stuff.
  
  Good luck!
- Israel 3 years ago
  
  looks cool any chance u can make add to existing or create a new video badge gadget
  
  that look like pulse "toy", make it alive ?
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