Staff Blog

If you like awesome videos, awesome people, and awesome food, please join me and some other awesome members of the Vimeo Staff for our awesome monthly series: Vimeo Offline. Awesome!

Vimeo Offline is a chance to see your favorite Vimeo videos in an offline environment. The events are held at the amazing Monkey Town restaurant/screening room where people can eat, drink, and be merry all while watching Vimeo videos projected on four screens all around them. Its pretty cool.

So if you live in the area, come on by! If not, don't sweat, I'll be posting a playlist of the videos by the end of the week so everyone else can check them out too!

Vimeo Offline: Short and Sweet
This Wednesday, January 14th - 8pm
@ Monkey Town, 58 N.3rd, Brooklyn, NY.

Hope to see you there!

Happy [insert your holiday here so we can be as politically correct as possible]!

On behalf of the staff here at the Vimeo, I would like to sincerely thank each and every one of our amazing users for helping contribute to one of the most creative, supportive, and inspiring communities on the planet. We are now one million strong (and growing) and to put that into perspective, that is basically the population of Swaziland.

So now that we are the size of a small nation, let us not forget that the nation of Vimeo depends on you! It is you who make it what it is, and it is you who will dictate the future of what Vimeo becomes. Keep creating, keep connecting, keep being yourselves, and we'll see the Vimeo we know and love live for many years to come.

Happy Holidays everyone.

MUCH LOVE,

Vimeo

Vimeo is teaming up with our West Coast friends over at Photojojo to host a really sweet contest!

They are working on a book (published by Random House in Fall 2009) and they need your help!

Here's where you come in: Photojojo is going to print a stop-motion video in their new book (think flipbook-style with a frame on the edge of each page) and they're looking for the best, most insanely awesome stop-motion video you can muster.

Visit the Photojojo Contest Channel for the complete contest guidelines and prizes and subscribe to the channel to catch all the great entries that are bound to flood in.

Make sure to tag your entries with 'Photojojobook' and be sure to follow the guidelines for your best chance to win.

The contest runs till January 1st, so get your stop-mo-tion!

Howdy all.

So, I'm curious. What is everyone doing right now?!

Tell us in a video!

Tag it with 'me right now' and then add it to the Me Right Now group.

And if you aren't doing anything right now, just make something up! That's cool too.

Hope everyone is having a swell weekend.

Blake

You can now link your Facebook and Vimeo accounts together using Facebook Connect! To do it, go to your settings page and click the connect button on the bottom right. Once connected, you can sign into Vimeo using your Facebook username and password, and your likes and uploads will be automatically pushed to your Facebook news feed (you can turn that off on your extending Vimeo settings page).

Enjoy!

Update:
After connecting, go to http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php and click Edit Settings for the Vimeo Connect app. On that pop-up screen...select "Allow Vimeo Connect to publish specific story sizes automatically without prompting." and then select "Short". This will let Vimeo automatically post a Short story, versus a one line story. Short stories include your videos title and a thumbnail image which can be clicked and turned into a Vimeo embed player!

Thanksgiving. Its that glorious day when an entire population overdoses on tryptophan and stuffing and falls asleep by 8 o'clock. But besides gorging on delicious food, Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate the things in your life that you are thankful for. And although its a holiday primarily celebrated in the U.S.A., its still a wonderful time to really step back from life's chaotic moments and give thanks for the things you cherish in life.

So what are you thankful for? Is it your family? The weather? Your HBO subscription? Or maybe it's the little things like a favorite dish, or that fact that your noisy neighbors finally moved out. Big or minuscule, serious or funny, make a video showing us what you are thankful for and add it to the Giving Thanks Group.

As always, please only post videos that you make for this specific project and remember to have fun and be creative.


Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Howdy Folks,

We're teaming up with the band Justice to promote a new video contest - HOW WERE YOU GREAT IN 2008?

Drawing from this past year, they want to see what you did that was GREAT. Whether you were filming, recording, playing, listening, drawing, snapping photos, writing, traveling, touring, blogging, promoting something you love, voting, or just being good at being you?

Get more info - www.vimeo.com/justiceforall or www.industreate.com/contest

To enter, videos must be between 30 seconds and 3 minutes and must be tagged with 'jst4all' AND from the blog/site that referred you to the contest - if you weren't referred, just pick a blog that you like from the OFFICIAL LIST HERE. Videos will be automatically added to the contest channel from the tags.

There are over $6000.00 in prizes which include a trip to hang out with 2008's Grammy nominated electronic duo, Justice & Ed Banger mate and art director, So Me on New Year's Eve in Chicago, at Revolution Number 9, as well as limited edition custom merch and a whole lot of street cred.

Submissions will be accepted till the end of November and the finalists will be determined by the video that receives the most likes.

Check it out!

For this weekend's project, we want you to go on an adventure.

If there is a magical forest, (safe) abandoned building, hidden hangout, or other secret spot near where you live, put on your pith helmet and check it out for us!

Your video should capture the mystery and excitement of experiencing something off the beaten path. You don't have to parachute into the jungle, just show us a place most people haven't seen. Although, if you do parachute into a jungle, that would be pretty cool.

As always, don't repost old videos. Make something new for the project. And make sure you add them to The Weekend Project Group.

We will accept submissions until Monday night, and the boldest, most daring, most interesting video will win 100 MB of extra upload space for its creator.

Have fun!

*UPDATE* The winner is Andris!

Thanks to everyone for some really great entries. I loved seeing the rock climbing and subway exploring and all the adventures!