This is HUGE for me. Why? I have virtually no reason whatsoever to use Vimeo anymore, a site I’ve been relying on recently for its HD upload feature (which has been out for a while now– same with a photo hosting site I use called SmugMug). I’m able to take all my business directly to Facebook. Here’s why:
Facebook doesn’t have a weekly upload limit, and a 20 minute length limit. Vimeo only allows me 500 MB per week (and this flies by with HD), and YouTube doesn’t let me go over 10 minutes per video.
I have no social graph on Vimeo, whereas on Facebook I have dozens of individuals that might be interested in seeing the content I upload or share.
There’s no need for me to have a social outpost for an organization I oversee on Vimeo or YouTube when all the video can be newly consolidated onto Facebook.
And this is just the beginning of it. YouTube officially knocked Vimeo out of the ring for me. And YouTube is hanging on by a thread. The only thing that’s keeping the two apart is that while YouTube has an enormous audience base and is the go-to location for video searches, it still benefits me to have content up there. On Vimeo, though, the only two pros were the HD capability and spunky social feel.
There is one downside, though, even if I’m being a bit selfish: the embed options are still poor and I had to manually resize this video to fit within the dimensions of my blog. Oh well, this is something worth making do for!
Link me your favorite HD Facebook video! I’d love to see it!
What do you think about these new features? Whose HD video service does it for you? Do you even care about HD video? I’d love to hear your thoughts. Once this Flip Mino HD hits widespread circulation, something tells me a lot more people are going to keep HD support on their wishlists.
While you’re reading this, why don’t you add yourself to the new Google Friend Connect widget on the right of this page and join the community?
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One less reason to use Vimeo, even YouTube
by Andy DeSoto on December 7, 2008
Even though I may be disappointed by the decline and fall of other social networking sites, one site– my “alma mater,” if you will– continues to innovate, releasing new features before even I know I want them. If you haven’t yeard yet, Facebook introduced two new features to their web video system two days ago: increased video resolution (up to 720p, the lowest rung of HD) and a new ability to embed videos on sites while still maintaining friend privacy controls on them. (Watch Robert Scoble interview a guy over at Facebook about this development, it’s a fun little interview.)
This is HUGE for me. Why? I have virtually no reason whatsoever to use Vimeo anymore, a site I’ve been relying on recently for its HD upload feature (which has been out for a while now– same with a photo hosting site I use called SmugMug). I’m able to take all my business directly to Facebook. Here’s why:
And this is just the beginning of it. YouTube officially knocked Vimeo out of the ring for me. And YouTube is hanging on by a thread. The only thing that’s keeping the two apart is that while YouTube has an enormous audience base and is the go-to location for video searches, it still benefits me to have content up there. On Vimeo, though, the only two pros were the HD capability and spunky social feel.
There is one downside, though, even if I’m being a bit selfish: the embed options are still poor and I had to manually resize this video to fit within the dimensions of my blog. Oh well, this is something worth making do for!
Link me your favorite HD Facebook video! I’d love to see it!
What do you think about these new features? Whose HD video service does it for you? Do you even care about HD video? I’d love to hear your thoughts. Once this Flip Mino HD hits widespread circulation, something tells me a lot more people are going to keep HD support on their wishlists.
While you’re reading this, why don’t you add yourself to the new Google Friend Connect widget on the right of this page and join the community?