Comments on: Diller Funds Personal Video Site Vimeo

By: Vimeo Founder Jakob Lodwick Leaves « NewTeeVee

Vimeo Founder Jakob Lodwick Leaves « NewTeeVee — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:49:08 +0000

[...] co-founder Zach Klein also recently left the company. When we first profiled Lodwick, Klein, and Vimeo in April, we commented, Just one problem with being hip, fun, and [...]

By: New York Trip: NTV Visits Vimeo « NewTeeVee

New York Trip: NTV Visits Vimeo « NewTeeVee — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:00:34 +0000

[...] Vimeo is a video-sharing site focused on personal and creative expression. They make some really cool tools, such as an easy public channel builder that was soft-launched the day after I visited. Vimeo was Lodwick’s side project until the beginning of this year, when parent company IAC gave the go-ahead to hire a team and make a go of it (read more about that here). [...]

By: NewTeeVee It’s Revamp Week for Video Sites «

NewTeeVee It’s Revamp Week for Video Sites « — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:50:38 +0000

[...] good to see a vid site that’s more attuned to community than to broadcast. (See our Vimeo profile from [...]

By: Mark Day

Mark Day — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:47:01 +0000

Vimeo has intellectual property up the wazoo, if by "intellectual property" you mean a demonstrable community of friendly folks who collaborate on projects, post quirky little clips and interact with a frightening degree of civility. Not a theoretical community, or a beta community of ten friends of the developers.

Is it scalable? That remains to be seen.

But as a model of how people can "play nice" with each other in online video, they've already got proof of concept in place.

By: steve garfield

steve garfield — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:46:40 +0000

I started using Vimeo in 2004. I like it. I also like this quote from the article, "He and Klein say they want to recreate home videos for the internet, not television for the internet."

I'm glad they said that. What I like to say is, "I subscribe to people." That's what Vimeo is all about.

By: zakkart

zakkart — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:59:14 +0000

I know alexa is not the best, but looking at vimeo I would say the VC bought a lame dog. That and half a million uniques a month is pretty much nothing either. In fact you can see there is a pretty huge credibility gap between the point that .5 mill uniques and 100k users. Seems fishy and so they have no unique software, no real intellectual property and no traction. Nice buy, but that was probably a 80% perhaps to keep them going.

By: :: r y a n ::

:: r y a n :: — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:48:58 +0000

John got a bit enthusiastic. The die hard love is appreciated, but Aaron already said what I was going to say so...

Glad to see another well designed site get some online love!

(Jakob - your vidd that's embedded here is really well done! Now I have to hit your site and go watch more...)

By: Aaron Wadler

Aaron Wadler — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:06:31 +0000

While I appreciate John's enthusiasm for Viddyou, that's not an accurate understanding. Neither Vimeo or Viddyou are ripoffs of each other in any way. I love the work that Vimeo is doing, and they've been doing it longer than we have anyway.

We're both have a different approach towards trying to help people express themselves online through video. Congrats on their recent funding round!

Off topic: I love the video embedded in this post - it's so cool!

By: Chuck Olsen

Chuck Olsen — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:00:49 +0000

uhh, Vimeo has been around since 2004. Longer than YouTube, I believe. And it is a lovely, friendly little neighborhood that I'm glad to have rediscovered.

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:59:17 +0000

Chill out, dude. Viddyou, which we also covered this week, is all of five months old. And neither site has anything you would call intellectual property.