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Finally, A Reason To Use Facebook

by Patrick Moberg March 20th, 2008

Hey guys,

We made a Facebook app! It's been a good time coming, but it's finally done. And we're pretty proud of how it turned out.

The main benefit to you is adding a Vimeo box on your Facebook profile to showcase up to date streams of videos you upload, like, and appear in. This allows your Facebook friends to see the videos you put on Vimeo.

The other piece of the app, the Vimeo canvas page, serves as an entry level version of Vimeo for new fans of Vimeo. They can start commenting, liking videos, and uploading all from Facebook.

The app was developed by Kevin and myself, with support from Sox, Blake, and Andrew!

Hopefully we'll get your videos out to as many people as you want seeing them, and adopt some new friends to the Vimeo community.

You can add the app here.

Thanks!

UPDATE: If you run into a problem where Facebook prompts you to login repeatedly, try going here. We're aware of this problem, and will fix it soon.
- 16:9 4 months ago
  
  Great app! very nice addition
- Paper Clip Media 4 months ago
  
  I'm prompted for a password when I try to add it, and it doesn't accept my Facebook password or my Vimeo password.
  
  Am I doing something wrong?
- Robert Himler 4 months ago
  
  Same for me...it won't work.
- Ben Millett 4 months ago
  
  This is so awesome! Maybe I'll actually do stuff on facebook now. You guys did a great job.
- Cody Sherman 4 months ago
  
  I too can not add it as it repeatedly tells me that my password is wrong.
- William Wilkinson 4 months ago
  
  Same.
- Patrick Moberg 4 months ago
  
  Ok, I'll check into this problem tomorrow morning. Thanks for the heads up.
  
  In the meantime, try this page: apps.facebook.com/vimeoapp/your_videos
- Robert Himler 4 months ago
  
  That works. Thanks Pat
- Aziz K. 4 months ago
  
  Finally!! Great!
  
  One little thing though. All of those crappy apps have invite friends function, which is mostly forced upon us! Even though I hate that, I would love a "invite your friends" option to Vimeo app.
  
  Wouldn't it be nice?
- Patrick Moberg 4 months ago
  
  Agreed. We'll see if we can work this functionality in gracefully. Thanks!
- Eric Anderson 4 months ago
  
  Added, works beautifully. You dudes nailed it!
- joelaz 4 months ago
  
  Works like a charm, but how do I use this app to send Vampire bites to my Facebook friends?
- Soxiam 4 months ago
  
  pokeanything.vimeo.com?
- mike ambs 4 months ago
  
  This app is amazing - super, super awesome job guys. :)
- Ian Lucero 4 months ago
  
  Trying it out now. Solid.
- LCF 4 months ago
  
  thanks for the app - i don't have to rely on the Notes RSS function of FaceBook anymore - yay! go vimeo!
- Arlin 'FeXd' Schaffel 4 months ago
  
  YES! Very nice!
  
  I would love to have more control over which videos are shown on my profile, but I'm sure the features will come with time, yes?
- Jackie Birov 4 months ago
  
  Same. Or at least an option to have the videos arranged randomly versus chronologically. Some of the videos I like most show up last because they're older, etc and I would rather only have a few favorites up.
- Patrick Moberg 4 months ago
  
  Our goal was to keep it as simple and automated as possible. But I think you guys are right. We'll take another look at this. Thanks.
- Jackie Birov 4 months ago
  
  Either way its still completely awesome, so thanks!
- K. Inselman 4 months ago
  
  I love it!! The integration works so well. Just one request--when it's in the narrow column, can we have a list of our videos instead of the icon? That would make it a bit clearer for my friends. Otherwise, well worth the wait!! :)
- Kevin Sheurs 4 months ago
  
  Sure thing, I will work on this now!
- K. Inselman 4 months ago
  
  Cool, thanks! :)
- Perez 4 months ago
  
  Cool!!!
  
  thanks you!
- Paul McClintock 4 months ago
  
  Great work guys
- Tim Donaldson 4 months ago
  
  loving it
- BobbyG 4 months ago
  
  yeah, baby
- opti 4 months ago
  
  great and convenient app
  proper design as usual
  
  good job
- Javed 4 months ago
  
  What a coincidence... I just signed up to Facebook last Wednesday.
- Chris Gampat 4 months ago
  
  you guys are my heros
- Sean 4 months ago
  
  woo, I just started using Vimeo. Perfect timing :)
  
  This will probably be the first app i'd want to share, so, once that's available I'm all over sharing the Vimeo love.
- Glenn (Avene) 4 months ago
  
  Great work! Rarely visit facebook myself, but at least now I can have some decent quality video on there with a nice player instead of their own rubbish player and inferior video.
- Teah 4 months ago
  
  Love it! Good job guys. :)
- Brandon Spanis 4 months ago
  
  Awesome stuff, loving it.
- Ncd. 4 months ago
  
  This app is great. Now I do not have to upload to Facebook videos and Vimeo!
- ishan 4 months ago
  
  i'm curious if anyone else has seen this?
  albumoftheday.com/facebook/
- Blake Whitman 4 months ago
  
  i have nothing to hide.
- ishan 4 months ago
  
  apparently, no one does anymore...
- Jackie Birov 4 months ago
  
  I'm not looking to start some drawn out political argument, but I don't really see what Vimeo has to do with your concerns about Facebook. Those people, like you, who think Facebook's risks or dangers outweigh its benefits simply won't use it. I don't really get the implication that Vimeo has some sort of subversive ulterior motive for creating an app.
- Holden 4 months ago
  
  it's really good! but it would be better if you could add one more option on drop down menu under "see videos 'user' 1. appears in 2. uploaded 3. likes", which lets the user pick one specific video of his/hers. Because i have only one video window and I want to show everybody what i think is my best work right there and then and hopefully encourage them to go check out other videos as well. Thanks for listening! you guys are amazing!
- cayoyin 4 months ago
  
  I love the app, but facebook will delete those videos that use commercial music because of the "copiright" and facbook's policies and procedures, so good luck!!
  
  They took off some of mine, including the one of the red trees and the one of when I was locked out of my house :(
- Blake Whitman 4 months ago
  
  are you sure they took off your Vimeo videos??
- ZackwolK 4 months ago
  
  Why use facebook to get to vimeo when I have vimeo right in front of me? seems backwards.
  
  I hate social networking sites.
- Ted Avery 4 months ago
  
  This is great, but totally useless on my profile when put in the small left column, which is exactly where I wanted to put it :( Nothing shows up, no thumbnails, no nothing
- Patrick Moberg 4 months ago
  
  Hey Ted. We're going to rethink this functionality. You're totally right, it should show some thumbnails. Check back soooon.
- Jon Rawlinson 4 months ago
  
  nice job. slick app.
- SKUNKAPEFRIEND 4 months ago
  
  " i <3 vimeo "
- Steven James 4 months ago
  
  I can't add the app...the "Log in to Vimeo" page appears over and over again. The apps.facebook.com/vimeoapp/your_videos page mentioned above does show up, but doesn't have me logged in, and gives me a "#302" error when I try to log in. I hope it is fixed soon, I've been waiting for this!
- Patrick Moberg 4 months ago
  
  Hey Steve, I'll private message you to help troubleshoot this.
- Nick Ambs 4 months ago
  
  Vimeo works way too well in facebook! I love it...
- Noelix 4 months ago
  
  Working good, guys.
- Chris 4 months ago
  
  Oops. I accidently linked my Vimeo account to my girlfriend's Facebook account (not realizing she was still logged in). Now I can't link it to MY Facebook account because it says it's already linked to hers. Is there a way to unlink the accounts? Please help!
- jthx1138 3 months ago
  
  Chris, I'm having a similar problem. Did you ever figure out how to resolve this?
- Patrick Moberg 3 months ago
  
  There's a link in the right hand column of the Facebook app to unlink the two accounts. Message me if you have any trouble finding it.
- Jeff Hardin 4 months ago
  
  Awesome app - thanks, y'all!!! :)
  
  Question: is there a way to export specific channels to FB, rather than the whole lot of videos?
  
  Also, can you export specific channels to FB groups you administer?
  
  Thanks!
- Julie Anderson 3 months ago
  
  ooh ooh ooh - I love this app :o) I've just started using Vimeo - and this has me completely converted. Way to go Vimeo. You really do rock.
- jthx1138 3 months ago
  
  Is there a way to tag friends that appear in your videos? Facebook's native video app does that, but it isn't very good.
- Alex Tworowsky 2 months ago
  
  Can you allow the app to be used on Pages (facebook app by facebook)
- Danny Carter 1 month ago
  
  I don't know if its something to do with my browsers (Safari and Opera) but this app just will not work. Refuses to play videos.
- Patrick Moberg 24 days ago
  
  How about now?
- Atömik Mürpy 24 days ago
  
  cool app! you guys rock, way better than youtube...
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