May 2012
116 posts
Additional Vimeo Festival + Awards Submission Coverage
“Action Sports Added to Vimeo Awards” - ESPN
“The 2012 Vimeo Festival Plus Awards: Now Open for Submissions” - Mashable
“When the Vimeo Festival Knocks, Does Hollywood Answer?” - IndieWire
“The Vimeo Festival + Awards is Open Now for Submissions” - TheNextWeb
“Vimeo Awards 2012 Open for Entries” - Creative Review
“Submissions Open for Second Vimeo Festival + Awards” - MacWorld
Vimeo Music Store
Vimeo Music Store: Find Unique Music Tracks to Add to Your Videos - addictivetips
“Vimeo Music Store allows you to discover new tracks, and use them in your videos. Searching and downloading tracks is dead simple. It is definitely worth a try…”
Vimeo Music Store Coverage
“Vimeo Launches Music Store to Help You License Music for your Videos Easier” - VentureBeat
“Vimeo Launches Music Store for Easy Video Soundtracks” - Billboard
“Vimeo Introduces Music Store for Licensing” - The Atlantic
“Vimeo Launches Way to Add Licensed Music to Videos” - Photo District News
“Vimeo Opens New Music Store for Web Video Soundtracks” - Studio Daily
Vimeo API: Video URLs Bug in Advanced API v2 →
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We’re going to be pushing a fix for a bug that’s been in the PHP and JSON response formats to vimeo.videos.getInfo (and any other method that returns the full video response). When a video belonged to a group, the “url” element was an array of urls, but when a video didn’t belong to a group that…
WE DID IT!
Thanks to everyone who took a stand with us against SOPA and PIPA — the bills have been effectively squashed, at least for the immediate future. Long live free speech!
Vimeo Couch Mode Coverage
Vimeo’s Couch Mode Now for Tablets Too, Not Just TVs – Softpedia.com
Vimeo enhances its Couch Mode – TechShout!
Vimeo Rolls Out Couch Mode Update, Now Available On iPad And Android Tablets – Scribbal
Vimeo Brings Couch Mode to the iPad – VentureBeatProfiles
Vimeo Brings Couch Mode to the iPad – ReadWriteWeb
Vimeo Buzz: The Idealists - A Case for Strong Community: Vimeo’s VP of Creative... →
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“Blake Whitman has seen Vimeo’s user numbers soar into the millions since its 2004 conception. The key to keeping up quality and turning down the noise, he…
Why Apple chose Vimeo for Mountain Lion
“We work very hard to create the best online video experience possible,” says Mellencamp, describing Apple’s validation of the company. “That’s our goal and the fact that they support that is evidence that we’re doing a good job.”
Additional New Vimeo Launch Coverage
“New Vimeo Brings Bigger Player, Better Sharing” - WIRED
“Vimeo to Emphasize Videos in Design” - CNN
“Vimeo Puts the Focus on Content” - Mashable
“Vimeo’s Massive Redesign Puts Videos Front and Center” - GigaOm
“An Inside Look at Vimeo’s First Major Redesign” - TheNextWeb
“Vimeo Begins Rolling Out Silky Smooth Redesign with Huge Videos” - VentureBeat
“Vimeo Redesign Offers Cleaner Interface, Bigger Videos, Tumblr-like Feed for Browsing” - The Verge
Additional Vimeo Festival + Awards Submission Coverage
“Action Sports Added to Vimeo Awards” - ESPN
“The 2012 Vimeo Festival Plus Awards: Now Open for Submissions” - Mashable
“When the Vimeo Festival Knocks, Does Hollywood Answer?” - IndieWire
“The Vimeo Festival + Awards is Open Now for Submissions” - TheNextWeb
“Vimeo Awards 2012 Open for Entries” - Creative Review
“Submissions Open for Second Vimeo Festival + Awards” - MacWorld
UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library: Conference on Security Council Resolution 1540 →
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The First Industry Conference of International, Regional and Sub-Regional Industry Associations on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) was held from 23 to 25 April, in Wiesbaden, Germany. Hosted by the Government of Germany, the conference is co-organized by the…
Vanity Fair: Treating "New Girl" Like "Mad Men" →
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According to the California Tomato Growers Association, the winter of 2011–2012 was “unusually dry”. It’s interesting—and provocative, no?—that Nick’s interest in agriculture would coincide with unfriendly atmospheric conditions. A subtle portrait of the Sisyphean attempt to escape one’s own fate,…
UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library: UN Security Council:Threats to international peace and security →
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May 05th 2012
The UN Security Council meet this morning at its 6765th meeting on Threats to international peace and security to discuss strengthening international cooperation in the implementation of counter terrorism obligations. During this High Level meeting, the concept paper dated…
UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library: Arab Development Challenges Report 2011 →
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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released Arab Development Challenges Report 2011.
This second Development Challenges Report, coming at a time when the region is passing through a critical historical juncture, attempts to go beyond the numbers to uncover processes that have…
UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library: UNFPA: Free E- Learning Course on Gender Based Violence in Humanitarian context →
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UNFPA has released a new publication titled Managing Gender-based Violence Programmes in Emergencies.
UNFPA has also launched a companion guide to its Free E-Learning Course for professionals who are working to address Gender Based Violence in humanitarian contexts.
The e-learning…
UN-Habitat: New Reports
UN-Habitat has released the following publications:
Handling Land: Innovative Tools for Land Governance and Secure Tenure.This book shows how the Global Land Tool Network is addressing these problems by setting an international agenda on land. It features the land tools that the Network has developed.
Planificación de Ciudades Sostenibles: Orientaciones para Políticas (Planning Sustainable cities)
UN Pulse from U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library: World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision →
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Africa and Asia together will account for 86 per cent of all growth in the world’s urban population over the next four decades, adding that this unprecedented increase will pose new challenges in terms of jobs, housing and infrastructure. Africa’s urban population will increase from 414…
Latest publications by UNODC
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has recently issued the following publications which can be downloaded in full from its website:
- International Framework for Action to Implement the Smuggling of Migrants Protocol
- Monitoring the impact of economic crisis on crime
- Guidelines for the Forensic Analysis of Drugs Facilitating Sexual Assault and Other Criminal
Other Information resources:
UNEP New Report
The United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP), has released a new report titled Releasing the Pressure Water Resource Efficiencies and Gains for Ecosystem Services.This document discusses the need to balance short-term water productivity gains, in particular in agriculture with the long-term role that water flows provide for maintaining sustainable landscape ESS, and serving multiple benefits to human well-being.
