Vimeo is always fun to watch because they clearly have a lot of fun with what they’re doing. Vimeo Director of Development Andrew Pile announced on his blog that the company recently served over one million videos in 24 hours, and the company “has quadrupled in size in pretty much every dimension in less than six months.”

At the same time, Pile added on the Vimeo forum “we’re not trying to be YouTube. Huge numbers of video views IS NOT what we’re trying to accomplish. We want the videos you see to be contextual and relevant, not highly connected for connectivity’s sake.”

Vimeo Code Swarm from Andrew Pile on Vimeo.

Pile also posted the video above, a visualization of development on the Vimeo platform since February ‘07, these kinds of things are pretty cool to watch and break down the massive level of collaborative work that has been put into software projects. For more on code swarms, look here.

Finally, Vimeo is hosting a meetup in Brooklyn on Friday with screenings from Vimeo users as well as interactive art and video installations. While we can’t make it, we hear it will be awesome.

(via soxiam)

Vimeo seems to be doing pretty well these days. The site offers the highest quality playback of any video sharing site, and they have created a great community of semi-pro users with the help of several staff focused primarily on facilitating conversations.

In March more than 70,000 videos were uploaded, 9,200 of them in HD quality and according to Community Director Blake Whitman, a premium service will launch “*very* soon.”

No word on what it will cost or what features can be expected but at a minimum it will offer users more than the current 500 MB per week of storage and will likely include some of the additional customization features users so often request. Vimeo has some smart people working for them so it will be interesting to see what they come up with.