I have been waiting for this for a while and it’s finally here – the Vimeo Desktop Uploader. It’s running on Adobe AIR, a platform for cross platform apps with heavy focus on webb services.
Since it’s from Vimeo you know it will look pretty, and it does:
I haven’t tried it yet, so I’ll get back to this in the near future. But right now I’m just happy that it has arrived. 
//Tomas
Today I write about our choice to use Vimeo as main video sharing service for all of Urban Lifestyle’s videos.
I really like the features of Vimeo Plus:
I’ll keep you updated on this choice and I will still think it’s the best choice in the next few months after having spent some time trying it out.
//Tomas
YouTube just launched a couple of pretty cool new features according to an article on the blog Google Operating System found by Linda Pierre.
Some cool examples:
- If you are logged in and watch more than one minute and the video is more than 20 minutes long, it will resume at the same place next time you go to the video.
- The HD-button will become sticky, which means it will remember what quality you want to watch videos in (using cookies)
Great to hear that there is some small innovation going on in this area.
//Tomas
YouTube has pretty cool feature called Annotations that can be used to make YouTube videos more interactive. These annotations are inserted into the videos to let the viewer decide between different directions that the video could continue in.
This feature has been available now for one year according to the YouTube Blog and in a recent blog entry they show this example:
“The story, which is shot from a first-person point of view, lets viewers control the hero’s actions (e.g. deciding whether or not he should take his knife to school). Only when the plot reaches one of its grim endings do you realize that the video, commissioned by the London Metropolitan Police, is actually a powerful tool in helping youngsters cope with some of the tough decisions they are faced growing up in a violent environment.”
I’m looking forward to seing what will happen to storytelling in the future as more and more creators will adapt to this interactive way of using online video.
//Tomas
Now you can get them for free, well almost free. You need to send them an envelope with another self adressed envelope and some stamps so that they can send you some stickers.
The only rule is that you have to have submitted at least one video to their site,
Image taken from the Vimeo Blog I hope they don’t mind…
Nice initiative I think. And if you send them a picture of you, they will even put it up on the wall in their HQ!
//Tomas