So you know how we get performances bonuses at Gawker.
What bonus do Vimeo employees get for whining like a bitch?
(Kidding. Flickr’s new video player does look and work exactly like Vimeo’s but I’m sure everyone at Vimeo knows there are only so many ways to make a player and this means little anyway because Flickr caps video length at 90 seconds, which is lower than the average length on any video sharing site so they won’t be taking much business from Vimeo who had years to dominate the personal-videos market but mysteriously didn’t despite having a gorgeous interface, helpful staff and very healthy core community.)
(Well yes, Flickr will make it harder for Vimeo, but more because of perception, right? Flickr Video users won’t be people who would have signed up for Vimeo. They’re people who never thought to put their videos online. Flickr will take users from YouTube, which is the site casual video makers first think of. But everyone will compare Vimeo to Flickr Video and it’ll look unhealthily small by comparison.)
(God I wish Connected Ventures had spun off Vimeo and only sold Busted Tees and College Humor to IAC, selling Vimeo to Yahoo. But obviously that would have required massively different arrangements and IAC surely thought Vimeo was an important and promising part of the business and Yahoo already had Yahoo Video and Flickr, so this is purely my fantasy. But IAC had no community to push toward Vimeo, whereas Yahoo could have blown it up — for better or worse, I mean maybe it would have ruined the Vimeo community but that didn’t happen at Flickr — so now Vimeo is left out of the public eye with a small user base that may be glad the masses haven’t come in but had better hope IAC never decides the site is a waste of money.)
(All of this is my layman speculation; I hope someone from Vimeo responds and puts me in my damn place.)
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