Vimeo
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Vimeo is a video-sharing site (owned by Connected Ventures) which launched in November 2004. The site supports embedding and video downloads, and allows user-commenting on each video page. Users must register to upload content. Registered users may also create a profile and upload small user pictures as their avatars.
The main difference between the site and other competing sites such as YouTube is that Vimeo pertains to user-created videos, of a friend and family nature. No pornography, TV shows, music videos, movies or anything not created by the user cannot be uploaded.
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[edit] Origin of Name
The name "Vimeo" was created by co-founder Jakob Lodwick. It is an anagram of "movie".
[edit] Popularity
Vimeo touts over 80,000 registered users[1].
As of 16 January 2007, up to 130,109 videos may exist on the service. Nowhere on the site is the number of videos given, but the exact figure can be estimated through trial and error by experimenting with various numbers in the clip URL (http://www.vimeo.com/clip:######), as Vimeo uses a sequential numbering system for all uploaded video content. This number is not perfectly accurate as when old clips are deleted, the numbers of still-existing clips do not change.
[edit] Notable content hosted
Vimeo has helped to offload traffic from Improv Everywhere's servers after new pranks are announced, and continues to host most of their videos[2]. It was also the original location of Noah Kalina's "everyday" video, which has currently received nearly 4.5 million hits on YouTube. Kristen Schaal uses Vimeo to promote her content.
