RWW Adds New Video Account, Channel, & Group on Vimeo
Hey there, sports fans.
We at ReadWriteWeb have had an awesome time gathering video content lately. We love it so much that we plan to do it a lot more. One of the discussions in the back channels has been about where to post our video content, and after considering a whole boatload of factors and testing several services, we've started posting content on our brand-new Vimeo account.
The new page will be the home for content from anyone and everyone on the ReadWriteWeb team, and our social media channel and RWW group pages will aggregate videos we find interesting, amusing, or relevant.
In the past, team members have used YouTube, Viddler, Blip, and a handful of other video services. We loved YouTube's HD, large-file capabilities, but we hated the media player and the YouTube watermark that ended up all over our lovely content. We adored Blip's customizable player, but our longer, in-depth interview videos were a bit too large for that format.
Our Vimeo Plus account will allow us to upload a healthy-to-ridiculous amount of HD video each week, and the speed of uploading and processing for Plus accounts is mind-reelingly fast. We'll also get to make widgets from our content. And we definitely love the very social component of groups and channels. We couldn't be more excited, and we hope to have a long and productive experience with Vimeo.
As a side note, this post isn't meant as an endorsement of Vimeo; different products work better for different purposes, as noted by many Twitter followers last week.
Another factor behind our decision was the surprisingly enthusiastic user response to Vimeo when we conducted an informal Twitter poll. Since you guys like the Vimeo platform and community so much, we hope you'll add us and check out our social media channel and our RWW group. We've added a few videos to the channel and group so far; if you have a video you'd like us to add to our curated content, just email us.
And as always, suggestions on how we can improve our video coverage are welcomed; just leave your erudite ponderings in the comments.
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Broken link 'Vimeo Channel' in this post mate
Posted by: Chris Saad
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June 11, 2009 11:41 AM
I love Vimeo as a video upload and display service. They are hands down one of the best for the reasons you mention. That said, it doesn't make sense to use it as a full blown aggregate if you want to also integrate video content from different platforms.
Why not go with Vimeo for your own content (like you announced) and use http://www.yubby.com to aggregate other content from YouTube, Blip, Viddler, and 25 other places? It's hassle free, has a great interface, works very fast and sports widgets that play inline on your site.
I could hook you up with your own custom RWW widget. Just shoot me an e-mail if you like the idea!
Glad to have you guys on board! Looking forward to seeing your healthy-to-ridiculous amount of HD video!
Yes, Vimeo is cool. Though, is this okay with their non-commercial policy? I'm assuming so since you have Blake's endorsement. Was considering Vimeo for my company, but thought our videos would be violate "No Commercial use".
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It's obvious, but worth pointing out that she looks really cute in this video.
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