Vimeo, LLC is a video community website with teams based in New York and Portland. There are currently about 1.3 million users and they receive about 13,000 videos uploaded per day. Above is a humorous video that the staff of Vimeo put together.

[via M. Saleem]

High quality video streaming service and IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ:IACI) subsidiary, Vimeo will no longer allow the uploading of video game samples.  Users will no longer will be able to do walk-throughs, game strategies, player vs. player battles, raids, fraps, etc.  Videos that already have this type of content on them will start being deleted on September 1st and new videos with this type of content will be removed immediately.

Why is Vimeo doing this?  First, It’s not creative expression.  And second, video game demos have a tendency to be longer in length, thus being the single biggest reason for transcode wait times.  If this is the case, then we should see an increase in speed for playing and uploading videos on Vimeo.

Will other video upload sites block this from happening?  I doubt it.  Learning how to beat certain parts of a video game is a huge market.  There are video game magazines published that solely teach gamers how to beat certain levels.  Vimeo is just having a hard time learning how to scale.  They need to take some lessons from YouTube.

Related Links:
Vimeo.com
Vimeo Blog

Google’s YouTube is ready to ramp up for more and higher quality content. Now users are encouraged to upload more files, with higher resolutions, and longer in length. Each video can now be 10 minutes long and 1GB in size. Originally, each movie file allowed on YouTube was limited to only 100MB.

YouTube is also building a YouTube Uploader tool for Mac. The YouTube Uploader tool for Windows PCs can be downloaded from Multi-Video Upload site. After multiple videos are done uploading, they will be automatically added to your My Videos page.

What makes this new feature even more interesting is that although YouTube is a Google property, I believe that the video-sharing website seems to be giving us unlimited storage for content. Whereas Google gives us limited storage for GMail, Picasa, and other services. Maybe this is Google’s way of paying for YouTube server and lawsuit bills.

As pointed out by ReadWriteWeb, InterActivCorp (IAC) is also involved in the video sharing market. IAC’s Vimeo introduced HD video uploading last month. YouTube videos often times face too much video compression.

[Update by Mo Kakwan]
It should be noted that both Vimeo and this recent move by YouTube to support higher quality video are ahead of the curve. The requirements of having to play HD video is more memory and faster processors.  Be sure to check out the comments on this HD Video (http://vimeo.com/342968/) and you’ll notice a number of people experiencing choppy play. My machine is fairly old (xp 2700+ with 1 gig of ram) and is bottlenecked not by processor speed or memory but by my slow DSL line (What’s going on Slowskys?). It’s going to take a little bit before the mainstream can catch up with the early adopters. I look forward to seeing these advancements drive down the price of HD Cameras as well which are currently rather pricey.

Information Source:
[1] The YouTube Blog: Multi-Video Upload Arrives

Vimeo, the video sharing site owned by InterActivCorp (IAC) and run by the same folks as College Humor have finally released HD support for movies. To get an idea of the quality that brings to the world of online video go here to see a clip of a pretty massive looking garden spider. You can switch HD on and off to see difference. I suggest viewing it in full-screen to really see the improvement.

To my knowledge, our site is the first place you can upload and watch video in true, honest-to-god high definition (1280×720). Right now basically every other video site (YouTube, Dailymotion, etc.) is doing video at 320×240. … Things are only going to get better, especially as Adobe releases H.264 support in Flash, which should be coming very soon. We’ll have a press release on Monday.
-Blake Whitman, Community Director of Vimeo

I’m not sure how Joost and other Internet Television like services are going to contend now with the availability of high quality video streaming directly in your browser. It’s interesting to note that Vimeo seems to have an advertising partnership with Canon as all their ads push canon products and HD Canon cameras. With the price of HD capable cameras eventually going lower and lower, HD video online will be ubiquitous. Also with Flash moving towards supporting higher quality video means that most current video sites will not have a large technology leap to implement HD Support. This is a the next generation of online video.