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.

  • You have problems, I have an apology

    by Jakob Lodwick July 2nd, 2007

    Hello everybody,

    I want to personally apologize for the problems with the site in the past few days, especially with uploads. It's the result of a small, careless technical error that had wide-reaching consequences. We screwed up.

    I use Vimeo not because of blind loyalty, but because it respects my videos like no other site. If we had to shut down Vimeo, my first thought would be, "Where am I going to put my videos?". I would also lose creative ambition. I believe context is important, and that a beautiful video on an ugly website is an ugly video.

    Of course, all this talk is meaningless when you can't even upload in the first place, which is why I am deeply sorry that we had difficulties this weekend and part of today. I think I understand how frustrating it must have been to helplessly watch your videos break. Nobody should have to deal with that. At this point, we have fixed 90% of the problem, and uploads should work for almost everyone. Please give it a try. We're also pushing Sunday's failed uploads through, so don't be surprised if you get a confirmation email for something that failed yesterday.

    If you have any questions, please post them in the comments below and I will address them directly.

    Sincerely,
    Jakob

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  • Welcome to Version 5 of Vimeo!

    by Jakob Lodwick June 26th, 2007

    Welcome to the new Vimeo. A lot has changed on the surface, but the same philosophy of respect for you and your videos remains. In many ways, we've simplified things, and I encourage you to explore the site for a few hours to digest the differences. One change is that "Your videos" now includes any video you appear in or otherwise have a credit for.

    I've built websites for ten years and directed videos for sixteen, and I've never been prouder of anything I've worked on. We've been building this new version ("v5") for over six months and it feels so good to finally release it. But what I'm most excited about is the near future, the next couple months. We have an elite pack of passionate professionals who are going to tear into our development pipeline like wolves into flesh; like prom dates at each others' formalwear. You're sitting right up front; prepare for a lot of blood.

    If you'd like to discuss the new version, we created The v5 Forum just for you.

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  • Exciting developments at Vimeo

    by dalas verdugo June 20th, 2007

    The Vimeo staff is proud to announce our three resident summer interns for 2007. Please help us welcome Jessica, Caitlin, and Julia. They will be working in our offices to help increase the user experience, gauge user feedback, and make fun videos all summer.

    In addition to this, We have been working hard on the new version of Vimeo. We are currently testing the new version to work out the bugs and we anticipate a public release very soon. The new site has features such as FULL SCREEN VIDEO, SELECTABLE THUMBNAILS, and ADVANCED TAG OPTIONS. Get ready for some serious fun in July 2007!

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  • If you want me to help you...

    by dalas verdugo June 14th, 2007

    Sometimes people send me help request emails, but then when I reply they have some kind of weird spam-prevention authentication thing going on. I don't have time to prove to you that I am not a spammer, so if you are a person who has such a system (like EarthLink's SpamBlocker), either turn it off or contact me via AIM at the screen name Vimeo.

    Thanks for helping me help you.

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  • New Camera Forum

    by dalas verdugo May 22nd, 2007

    Hey guys, the camera posts were getting buried in the other forums, so we decided to give them their own place! Please make sure your post topics include the specific model of camera you want to discuss.

    http://vimeo.com/forum:Cameras

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  • Flickr integration is back!

    by dalas verdugo April 13th, 2007

    We have finally brought back the feature that allows for better integration between Vimeo and Flickr.

    Just click on the "Flickr" button under the player window to see the dialog box that will allow you to post a thumbnail of your video to Flickr.

    If it doesn't work at first, try signing out of Flickr, then signing back in. It should work after that.

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  • Privacy Features Upgraded

    by dalas verdugo March 30th, 2007

    As promised, we have introduced a more robust set of privacy features. You can now make your videos viewable by everyone, just your contacts, specific Vimeo users, people who have the password, or just yourself.

    Click here to watch a video demonstrating the new privacy features.

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  • New API for developers

    by dalas verdugo March 26th, 2007

    We're pleased to announce the launch of our API. We welcome all developers to check it out and start programming cool applications for Vimeo!

    See Ted's post in the new API forum for all the details:

    http://www.vimeo.com/forum:API

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