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It worked, but my long title messed up the formatting a bit:

facebook.com/profile.php?id=581841404

I don't think I can answer your other questions. There might be some legal stuff involved (us having to protect our trademark or something). Maybe Jonathan can shed some light.

I did wonder about long titles, I've added you as a friend so I can see, if that's ok?

Edit: I've tweaked it a bit so that the little boxes have a fixed height and really long titles kinda drop off the end.

Awesome! Works for me!

Works here too, sweet!

Yay!

Works like a charm

I've got it on my fb profile! Thanks, Malphas!

great stuff
facebook is that little bit nicer now

Go for it. However, please make sure to note:

This application is not owned or operated by Vimeo or Connected Ventures, LLC.

Also, in the developed by field, use your name and not Vimeo or Connected Ventures.

Thanks.

This is the first facebook app that I'll actually use. Thanks!

cool! thanks, i just tried it out and it works perfectly :)

I really like how it sits quietly in the column, instead of being big and ugly in the middle of everything. Bravo again.

It would be cool if we could choose which videos go up there, say via a tag or something.

Cool, I'm glad people like it, and that it seems to work!

Thanks for that Jonathan, I'll use your logo and I'll add in plenty of 'not developed by' stuff too.

bk@ I thought about doing that and I will look into it, although the API doesn't appear to allow 'queries' as such, so I'd have to manually search through videos for tags, which would be quite inefficient.

I should probably mention (it's in the 'help' for the app, but not obvious) that when you upload a new video, my app doesn't update automatically, you have to go into the 'settings' (click on the SubVimeo link in your applications list) and that will automatically update the profile box again.

This is because the hosting package I have doesn't include Cron support (it costs more :) ), but I am going to try making it a bit more automatic over the next few days.

Thanks again.

umm it doesnt work for me... do i use my screen name or my url?

As a fellow developer, sweet! Only comment, entering my Vimeo username didn't work for me, I had to enter my Vimeo userid instead. But still, very cool. Anyway you can get the videos to play within facebook using their FBML? Not saying you have to, curious to see if you can more than anything!

He Obar, you should enter the name that appears in your url, although not the full URL, for example, my url is vimeo.com/user:malphaswats so I enter malphaswats

sorry, I'll update the instructions at some point today or tomorrow :)

smuggyuk, you can put flash items into the profile, but they have to be clicked on to activate first, which isn't too bad. I think I might add in a 'profile video' option if I get time :)

yep i figured it out.
i was putting Obar in there.

this is really cool
thanks

loving this!!!! thanks!!! :D

ding.

a big high-five to you, sir.

Have any of you guys tried the new Facebook video application? If so, what do you think?

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
that makes it so much easier
instead of importing clips via RSS into notes, this does exactly what i want

This is so cool. This is why I love Vimeo. The community!

This is a great 3rd party app for Facebook! Thanks so much for taking the time to develop it, MalphasWats. And, big thanks to Vimeo and staff for being so supportive of your user's creations.

It would be excellent to have the ability to embed Vimeo vids within the Facebook structure so that the links don't send people over to Vimeo. I imagine that, with what I've seen of the Vimeo Beta (e.g. Duplo's Tumblr) the new product will show off enough of our community within the video app interface that it's not as necessary to send people out of Facebook to get a taste of what this community is about.

Right now, this app only really acts as a Vimeo badge... which is unfortunate because you can't even pick your thumbnails in the current iteration of Vimeo!

I have a feeling this will all change very soon and it makes me happy. Keep up the good work Vimeo (and that means all of us)!!!

(Oh. And to answer J-Marcus: I love Facebook's new video application. I use it to send private video voicemails, whereas Vimeo is used for public vignettes and fun film explorations.)

Thank you for all the positive comments, I'm glad my stuff is useful.

@themarkpike I can put a function to embed vimeo videos into the profile, but that would come with the following caveats:

1. Embedded Flash on facebook doesn't run automatically, it initially displays a static image (that I would have to supply) which when clicked on gets replaced with a flash object, which would then require a second click to play - It's not a problem in itself, but I wonder if it might confuse people, and could reflect poorly on the Vimeo Experience.

2. An application can only have 1 profile box, so would you want to be able to put many videos in that one box, or just 1? - Again, probably not an issue for most, but I think one of the things that sets facebook apart is that it's not myspace ;) (for illustration purposes, check out my friend's myspace page here: myspace.com/phil_nut - beware the loadtimes!). I'm not confident that I could present a huge list of videos on the facebook profile and still stay true to The Book.

3. Choosing the videos to put up - I have read, although not tested, that the Vimeo API only returns the first ~50 videos, so if I wanted to do a video chooser all in as part of my application's function it would be lacking the full range of functions which would be a shame. If I just had a box that you had to type the video URL into, that would work, but could cause confusion/exploit opportunity/ugliness etc. Again, not necessarily a gamebreaker, but needs thinking around.

I'd love to hear others' views on the above and I am more than happy to build in little extra bits and develop it further, or even make a whole new one that does something else, Discuss! Javelin!

Thanks.

i just added this to my FB profile, works great. Thanks :)

Very cool eveyone, to echo TheMarkPike - i think it's great you guys (CV + IAC) are letting this role ... for now.

I've been anxious to share on facebook, and tired of seeing "other clips" on there.

Kick butt.

one quick thing - can you get the vimeo videos to open in a new window instead of the one i'm browsing in? or maybe in a new tab?

just a thought.

I'm not sure actually, I'll have a look when I get a chance, but I *think* facebook strips off all that kind of stuff, it definitely doesn't let you do javascript, so it would have to be the target="" attribute which is "out of fashion" and the sort of reason facebook uses FBML for a lot of things instead of HTML.

"Standardistas" (which I vaguely consider myself sometimes) would point out that links that force a new browser window open are often considered rude ;)

I shall investigate and possibly make it an option.

haha i'm rude.

fyi, activity on my clips since adding the facebook app has gone up a notch.

That's good to hear! (the activity bit, not the rude bit).

I wasn't suggesting you're rude for wanting it to pop up, I was really only regurgitating something I've read a few times ;) Besides, it's more that it's rude to assume as a developer that your users want new windows popped up at them, as opposed to users wanting a particular feature ;)

The world of web development is an odd place filled with weird ideas :D

New windows opening automatically can be annoying for users who prefer tabbed browsing. You can always get something to open up in a new window if you want it to; but if it's automatic, you can't prevent it (right?).

How do people see the services of Vimeo and Facebook video overlapping right now? What's the venn diagram look like?

Personally, for now, I think I'll use Vimeo to post vignettes and short video blogs and Facebook will mostly be used for personal messages and instant-recording reactions to friends.

But it'd be nice to display my Vimeos within the Facebook architecture, though that would end up double-posting my content and spreading out the comments, etc....

worked like a dream

wow! works like a charm!
dammit! i spend the last hour trying to build something similar, before i had the brilliant idea to check if someone hadnt allready done it :)

hehe, sorry about that hannes!

i love this app, is there any chance of adding a feature so you can have a few more vids, say 8 on your page.
and let you choose which ones are displayed?

Bednarz, I'll look into it and see what I can do!

nice one i'll keep my fingers crossed :)

any news on how it's going? :)

Hi Bednarz,

I'm afraid I've got some really heavy deadlines at work at the moment, all of my development time is going into the stuff that earns me money at the moment :(

I intend to get back to the fun stuff very soon though!

Hey, just tried this out and I love it. Thanks for providing this.

One small thing, on my profile, only the most recent thumbnail is shown. The other three are just two colored bars (old vimeo colors I think) and do not show any titles under them. They still click through to my other recent vimeo clips just fine and show the titles on mouseover, though.

This doesn't seem to be working for me...no thumbnails?

I love this application. It's great.

Very recently it's been having trouble updating though - any news on this?

The Vimeo API seems to have moved, or stopped working, I haven't had a chance to look into it, I am attempting to do so now...

: ( don t work for keep receving same mess saying try later

I added it, but when entering my username for Vimeo, I ran into a problem It only worked when I didn't add a space (not sure if it was because it just works with no spaces, or it just needed the custom URL I gave my account). But other than that, worked like a charm. Very nice!

Works for me! It did show an error when I gave my username, but then when I looked at my profile the display was correct.