Internet Corner | Vimeo.com
By Lara Bryn Greenberg
Posted: 10/17/07, 1:26 AM EST Section: Feature
Vimeo.com
Vimeo is to YouTube as Facebook is to MySpace: It's simply classier.
Vimeo is a video Web site that allows users to upload all their favorite home movies to be shared with the public. Members can upload pictures of themselves and create a personal profile similar to Facebook. Users also have the ability to comment on people's videos, write blogs, send messages and chat in forums. They can add contacts, too, just like one would add Facebook friends.
The site, which was started in 2004, even allows members to directly contact Vimeo's creators. There's an AOL Instant Messenger screen name and e-mail address posted on the site that can be used to get in touch with the community directors for any reason. And the best part about the Vimeo is the "How To" videos, which explain to new users how the site functions.
Vimeo tends to host artier videos for the serious filmmaker: Mini-documentaries and shorts abound. It's also more appealing to learn about the filmmakers from their profiles, and anyone interested in a filmmaker's work can talk to him or her directly. So log off YouTube and jump on the Vimeo bandwagon. It seems to have much more to offer to those attracted to more "sophisticated" moviemaking in today's online community.
- Lara Bryn Greenberg, contributing writer
Vimeo is to YouTube as Facebook is to MySpace: It's simply classier.
Vimeo is a video Web site that allows users to upload all their favorite home movies to be shared with the public. Members can upload pictures of themselves and create a personal profile similar to Facebook. Users also have the ability to comment on people's videos, write blogs, send messages and chat in forums. They can add contacts, too, just like one would add Facebook friends.
The site, which was started in 2004, even allows members to directly contact Vimeo's creators. There's an AOL Instant Messenger screen name and e-mail address posted on the site that can be used to get in touch with the community directors for any reason. And the best part about the Vimeo is the "How To" videos, which explain to new users how the site functions.
Vimeo tends to host artier videos for the serious filmmaker: Mini-documentaries and shorts abound. It's also more appealing to learn about the filmmakers from their profiles, and anyone interested in a filmmaker's work can talk to him or her directly. So log off YouTube and jump on the Vimeo bandwagon. It seems to have much more to offer to those attracted to more "sophisticated" moviemaking in today's online community.
- Lara Bryn Greenberg, contributing writer
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Dr Ben Bandara [BrownPolar
posted 5/23/08 @ 12:39 PM EST
The above was and is absolutely true and not a promotional blogging. Thanks to Lara for writing this to the benefit of thousands, if not millions of video geeks world over. (Continued…)
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