Staff Blog

From today, 12/21/07, until 1/2/08, the entire Vimeo staff will officially be on a Holiday break. Huge catastrophes will still be dealt with, but most small bugs will have to wait until after the Holidays to receive the attention they deserve.

We look forward to returning from the break rested and ready to tackle the new year.

Thanks for making 2007 our best year ever!

Your votes have gotten us to the final three, please vote again to help Vimeo secure our victory! This community deserves the recognition.

Vimeo has been nominated as "Favorite Video Sharing Site" for the Open Web Awards. Click this link to cast your vote for us!

http://mashable.com/2007/12/10/owa-voting-videos/

Hello there. We just made few changes to browse pages. Now when you're browsing someone's videos, contacts, albums or channels, vimeo now offers more options to sort them in a specific order you want. You can also browse videos in thumbnail, detail or video mode. Lastly, you will notice that we've made some changes to the pagination unit based on your feedback to make it easier to use when you want to jump between pages. So please spend some time on these pages and let us know what you think.

With these new changes, here are few neat things you can do.

Ever wanted to see which of your videos received most 'likes' or comments from people? Go to your videos page and sort them by "most liked" or "most commented".

You know someone who's shared private videos with you but can't remember which ones? Go to the person's videos page and choose the "private" option from the pull down menu.

Wondering how to quickly check which videos you 'liked' from someone? Go to the person's videos page and switch to "video" format. Now when you mouse over the videos, you can tell by scanning which ones have the blue 'like' button lit up.

Enjoy.

In case you haven't checked it out recently, the Hubnut widget now allows you to select your albums or channels. This could be a great way to embed your channel's videos into a webpage.

User comments are an integral part of the Vimeo experience. Watching a video is just one component of the larger social interaction. Fortunately, the Vimeo community engages in a thoughtful and respectful dialog; conversations with meaning and substance, or at least in good, light-hearted spirit. Most other sites on the Internet don’t have that type of positive social interplay.

However, with comments dispersed across many different video pages, forum posts, private messages and the Vimeo blog, keeping track of the dialog is too difficult.

And so, we are really excited to release a new system to manage all of your conversations.

The Vimeo conversation browser aggregates all of your comment activity in a centralized location, making it easy for you to track your comments, other peoples’ responses and the larger ongoing conversation on Vimeo.

So, enjoy! And as Ron Burgundy would say, “stay classy Vimeo”.

We made a new feature for your profile: Friend Boxes. Take a look at my profile to see it in action, then look at your own profile to customize it. By default, it shows your newest contacts, but you can customize it to show whoever you want, and you can write a description of each person. I think this will make it more fun to look at someone's profile. In the past, profiles were sort of a dead end.

Post a link to your profile in the comments after you've played around with it.

I think the best webmail platform is Gmail, and many Vimeo users agree. That's why we built a Gmail contacts importer. It's simple: you enter your email address and password, then Vimeo grabs your contacts from Gmail and shows you who also has a Vimeo account. Then you just click a button to add each one to your Vimeo contacts.

I tried it this morning and found about a dozen close friends who weren't my contacts on Vimeo. It's easy; give it a try! In the future, you can find a link from the Tools menu up top, or from your contacts page. And by the way, Vimeo will not store your Gmail account information, nor will we send emails (ie, spam) to any of your friends.

If you have questions or comments, post them below. We'll keep an eye on the thread.

<3,
Jakob