A: Vimeo is the most low-key video site we've ever seen. Most of the clips don't appear to have been created for entertainment, for documentation, for instruction, or for any purpose other than reproducing the quirky textures of everyday life -- video on a whim, or found video. There's a guy lying in a mud puddle in the rain, scenes of upstate New York drifting by a car window as the filmer drives home from work, plugs being rearranged in a surge protector, two guys moving a car on the street, as observed from an apartment window....

Some of the content is beautiful, and some of it is silly. Much of it is only meant for friends and family, and isn't visible to visitors who haven't been invited to view it. But the site is generating a culture of serendipity - users celebrated Vimeo's second birthday in February by pushing their record buttons at the same moment (11:00 GMT on February 16) and filming whatever was happening in front of them. Here's one of the results:

Simultaneous Capture 3am Seattle, WA 02/16/07 on Vimeo