{"id":93,"date":"2007-10-15T21:51:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T04:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/15\/social-video-network_vimeo\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:04:19","slug":"social-video-network_vimeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/social-video-network_vimeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Vimeo, underdog video network, leads the pack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. For taking on<\/a> 1280×720 HD ahead of other social video networks and for reminding people about good video quality (as of this last week *)<\/li>\n
  2. For blogging about the benefits and advantages when introducing new features, voiced best<\/a> on their Staff blog and for not stopping there, shown — not just told — in quick-and-dirty videos<\/li>\n
  3. For leading an already vibrant, friendly community with two community directors (“Hi, I’m dalas, and I want to make sure that you have a lot of fun here on Vimeo!” … “What dalas said. Use us!”) and for encouraging usage of the site’s less-obvious perks with a social “to-do” list (“Comment on five videos” … “Tag a video that isn’t yours”)<\/li>\n
  4. For understanding privacy, like separating personal videos for family\/friends from creative ones, and for showing off Activity, like showing what a user likes, tags and comments in real-time<\/li>\n
  5. For giving filmmakers peace of mind with Statistics that sort views, likes and comments by day, and for highlighting referrals, which encourages more linking<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    [vimeo]http:\/\/vimeo.com\/clip:323839[\/vimeo]<\/p>\n

    * Sadly, embedding the higher-grad video, and losing the Canon ad, aren’t yet options.<\/p>\n

    On a related note, designer Andrew Sloat<\/a>, whose video was shown at the AIGA Next Conference<\/span>, chose to put a QuickTime video on his site and<\/em> share on his Vimeo, too.<\/p>\n

    [vimeo]http:\/\/vimeo.com\/clip:341055[\/vimeo]<\/p>\n

    Curious about alternatives to YouTube? Compare Vimeo<\/a> to other social video networks on our resource matrix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For taking on 1280×720 HD ahead of other social video networks and for reminding people about good video quality (as of this last week *) For blogging about the benefits and advantages when introducing new features, voiced best on their Staff blog and for not stopping there, shown — not just told — in quick-and-dirty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6316,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}