Yahoo Launches Video On Flickr

by Dave Keating | April 10, 2008 at 03:41 am | 322 views | 1 comment

Flickr has now added a video feature to the site.

Flickr members can now upload video to the popular photo-sharing site.
Yahoo launched video-sharing this week. Flickr boasts 42 million visitors a month. The company said it hopes the feature will help attain Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)'s goal of being Internet users' main starting point on the Web.

Flickr will make video available in eight languages: English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese.

Users can upload up to 90 seconds of footage, with a maximum size of 150 MB, from any recording device. They can organize and share videos the same way they handle photos, using tags, geotags, sets, and privacy settings. Videos can be uploaded to photo streams, alongside photos, and embedded on third-party Web sites.

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Iain Scott

at 05:41 on April 10th, 2008

Videography and photography are two different art forms involving different skills. What next from flickr? Music sharing? Poetry? Is it on the way to becoming a blogging service?

Those of us who are interested in photography are not necessarily interested in someone's pathetic webcam video of themselves pontificating on some topic we don't care about. There is enough of that rubbish on YouTube.

If flickr really wants to compete with YouTube, it needs a separate site to do that. Don't confuse video and photo.

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