 20060421 Veoh?
Random Culture reports on Vimeo: There's been some buzz this week about Veoh Networks, a start up that's positioned itself to compete with YouTube. In fact, former Disney chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner is SO convinced that he put his own money into a recent $12.5 million second round of funding for Veoh. 6
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said... The only thing I'm disappointed about? Vimeo has shot themselves in the foot by requiring people to sign up on the front end. This severely limits their potential as a portal where people go to browse videos. If they get rid of this sign up barrier, they could give YouTube a run for their money. I will credit them, though, that one of the interesting aspects they're using registration for is to create a more "social networking" type of video destination. Think MySpace for videos, sort of. I kinda agree with him about the signup thing Zach. If you can get rid of the signup thing for people who only want to watch the videos, Vimeo can grow a lot bigger. What say? 4:39 PM Zach said... Ravi, you will best enjoy Vimeo as a registered user because our most unique features require you to be logged in, whether you upload clips or not. We don't want anyone to experience anything less, so we encourage you to sign up before you start using it. Most importantly, Vimeo is not a viral video portal and we do not intend to challenge YouTube's role as one. We are confident that we have built a innovative way to share personal clips, in a way that intentionally precludes us from ever becoming a video storage bank like our competitors. Vimeo is about the personally-relevant, YouTube is about the massively-appealing. 5:32 PM Jakob said... Zach and I are in agreement on this. 1:15 AM Pasha said... Unfortunately, many (most) progressive ideas which involve services beyond the primary product and aim for the social network aspect of things (which actually may be the primary service depending on the perspective) require an initial basic account. There’s clearly a problem with this, since there is market resistance (perhaps, insignificant). But until there is a globalized identity service on the internet (oxymoron?) there will be that initial requirement of a basic account. Btw, great work on Vimeo as expected. P.S. New York rocks … in some ways more than others (like meeting crazy peeps, for example) Tschuss Check out planyp.us 5:35 AM Jan said... I like the Vimeo approach! The signup is literally as easy as it could possibly be and you enter your own little world where everything makes perfect sense in relation to your own account! I don't know youtube too well, but with v4 vimeo is rather hard to beat here! 10:21 AM Jacob DeHart said... I like the idea of veoh but it loses all credibility by ripping off youtubes look and feel. I really like vimeo because I get to check up on what my NY pals are doing and I really like thew new design and functionality of the site! Nice work Zach! Also we're in copenhagen right now giving a presentation on community and user innovation, one of the other speakers from the BBC used Vimeo alongwith Google Video and Youtube as an example for publishing media on the web, I got all excited and snapped a picture! http://flickr.com/photos/jacobd/131928315/ 3:47 AM Post a Comment |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |