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.

By: kc!

kc! — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:58:53 +0000

This write up is more what Viddyou does than Vimeo. I think Newteevee compared Viddyou to WordPress oddly which I didn't see when I checked out their site. I like both a lot because they're very pleasant to look at, but I see Vimeo as appealing to the anti-Youtube hipster crowd that needs the online exclusivity. Catering to that exclusivity isn't a bad thing. It's same as what Virb is to Myspace. I can see many in SF's Mission district loving the site and featuring gobs of track bike and fixie scene videos. Vimeo also appeals to my designer side, but still view it as a stripped down and better designed Youtube that's slightly more personal (for now).

By: John Dee

John Dee — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:48:30 +0000

It's sad when a good idea needs to be blatantly ripped off by another company. This site is a pretty blatant ripoff of viddyou, and viddyou seems to do a better job at it than these guys do. Only difference is that viddyou's UI is cleaner.

By: Vimeo takes the road less travelled » mathewingram.com/work

Vimeo takes the road less travelled » mathewingram.com/work — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:15:08 +0000

[...] Gannes has a great post over at Om Malik’s NewTeeVee site that looks at Vimeo, a video-sharing site that I must admit I had kind of overlooked in the frenzy of interest over [...]

By: Jakob

Jakob — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:59:24 +0000

Vimeo's privacy features are actually live already, so there's no need to check out Quickeo as Marc suggested above.

By: Jonathan Marcus

Jonathan Marcus — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:20:52 +0000

"because it really is the kind of site where you get back what you put into it."

Very well said.

By: Mark Day

Mark Day — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:33:59 +0000

Vimeo does an excellent job of fostering community and civility – more power to them. I haven’t spent as much time there as I’d like lately which is a shame, because it really is the kind of site where you get back what you put into it. It’s one of the “nicest neighborhoods” in online video.