Hi Vimeo users!

A major concern for many users has been the ability to keep their clips private. We have now introduced basic privacy features.

On each clip's page, if you look to the right of the player window, you will see a link marked "Privacy." Click this to set the password for the clip (or you can click the "reset" button to make the clip public again).

After you have set the password, send the URL for the clip's page and the password to everyone that you want to share the clip with.

Here is an example of a clip page URL: http://vimeo.com/clip:143859

"But couldn't this be made easier? Shouldn't I be able to make groups of people and share my clips with just that group?" you ask.

YES! We fully intend on improving the privacy features and making it easier to share your clips with the people who are important to you. The current privacy features are very basic and only intended to protect your clips until we can implement the more advanced features.

If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch with me.

I just want to quickly highlight a cool project that is happening this Friday, the 16th of February. User djp72 dot net is organizing a worldwide simultaneous "capture" at GMT time: 11:00:00 AM (click to see in your time). Basically what this means is that all over the globe, people will be pushing the record button at the same time and filming what is happening in their neck of the woods. This will also be Vimeo's 2nd "birthday," so in a way we are all celebrating the sharing that we do here on Vimeo by sharing this moment together.

Click here to read more about the project and to get involved.

Vimeo has been nominated as a finalist for the Community Award at the 10th Annual SXSW Web Awards. Our community is amazing and it is growing every day, so we are sure we will win.

However, there is also something you can do. All of the finalists, including Vimeo, are eligible for the People's Choice Award, and you can vote for us once per day until March 2nd to claim this prize for Vimeo!

Just go to this website and follow the instructions to vote. Remember, you can cast a new vote every day until March 2nd.

If you are going to be at SXSW, get in touch with Zach or Jakob, who will be there to claim our awards.

Man, after typing "award" so much, that word looks really weird now... AWARD!

Making good videos can be hard. It seems like there is an infinite amount of things that can go wrong! Plus, what if you want to do a cool effect or technique, but you don't know how to do it?

At the request of our users, we have created a Technical Help forum, where you can ask questions and exchange tips. If you are good at something, like effects or time-lapse videos, you can make a tutorial and then let people know about it in the Technical Help forum.

Let's help each other to be better filmmakers!

Since the beginning, the most frequent request we have gotten here at Vimeo has been "more space, please!"

Well, today is your day. We have upgraded everyone's upload limit to 250 MB per week. We hope you have a lot of fun using your new space to upload videos that you created.

Click here to watch a special video celebrating the occasion.

We just launched a great new feature that will make it easier for you to make special requests of your favorite Vimeo members.

Click here to watch a video tutorial.

If you have an idea for a video that you would like to see someone make, just go to their profile page and click on "Request a clip from..." Describe the video you want to see, then click submit. That user will receive an email letting them know about the video you want them to create.

After you have received a request and made the requested video, you will notice that on your upload page there is drop down menu that contains all of your clip requests. Simply select the request that you are fulfilling from this menu and your video will be marked as a reply to that request.

Try it out!

Thanks to our new developer, Casey Pugh, you will now receive email notifications when someone replies to a comment you have left. Even if it is not on your clip!

This will go a long way towards making it easier to have fun comment threads.

Casey has more great features in the works, so stay tuned!

We've completed the switch to our new servers and everything appears to be running smoothly. Both pages and videos should load a whole lot faster now.

If something is acting wacky, please let us know in the bug forum.