the darkerside to rants

A few months ago I was told I should sign up for Vimeo, the argument was (mostly) that it had better PQ than Youtube, which is true.

What’s also true is that Vimeo is much more content producer driven than youtube, which essentially is useful to find the obscure comedy sketch or TV show snippet.

What Vimeo is not is the “flickr of video”, but oh do they try.

A few points that make Flickr still the better community driven site:

- They do not limit you in how many groups you can join, even better they allow you to upload as much as you like and only limit you by bandwidth (on free accounts) not on file resolution (as vimeo does).
- There is a real sense of community, they have the ability to geo-tag your uploads, leave comments in the photos (okay, that would be hard to do on videos) etc. Vimeo: Not so much.

I think my biggest gripe with Vimeo is that although they are at the cusp of doing something really need with content produced video they fall flat by limiting what you can do once you have uploaded the video, both on a free account and paid ones are only marginally better.

I was debating for a while if I should spring for the $8/month they are asking to get “full access”, but the difference between full and free is laughable, my $8 are better spent on blip.tv which provides much better options / abilities to deal with your video.

Yes, blip.tv has it’s own share of problems, but at least they understand what their goal is, Vimeo seems to to be teethering back and forth on what it exactly is in the end being nothing but a neat place to punt up my videos to quickly embed them on this blog.

Shame, really.