Finally…flickr does video

Ever since we started using flickr, in 2005, I had been anticipating this day to come…3 years later flickr added video support. It’s clearly not a youtube competitor and I’m glad its not, they can keep their social/viral/hilarious video.

Even though YouTube has more to offer, only because it’s pioneering and trying to keep ahead in that space, flickr will host most of our video.

flickr is our online “scrap book”/photo-album and since our events, the iPhoto term, include video its only natural to keep them all in one place.

Testing out the feature I found nothing special. It’s the same as uploading images, only I can’t upload the video through the flickr uploader yet.

There are some limitations:

  • 90 seconds
  • 150MB

But like I mentioned this is for my still-camera video in relation to events, which almost always fill that criteria.

I’ve embeded our first uploaded video to this post [crossing fingers] with praise to flickr for finally getting off their ass and doing something great for the community/users of flickr and don’t worry youtube I’ll use you as much as I do now and I’m sure everyone else will do the same.

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  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    Hey, you seem to be going a little hard on them with the “finally getting off their ass and doing something great for the community” line – or was that just a joke?

    Anyway, it’s pretty cool news, if for no other reason than they’ll be giving YouTube some competition in the market of posting personal videos like the one you shared in this post.

    Mostly I just like the idea that you’re a fan of a service that will soon be brought to you by the big M$ :-)

  • http://dancameron.org Dan Cameron

    I’d probably leave flickr if MS took over.

    Because, the only reason I see the flickr team not being able to “get off their ass” was because of the mega corp Yahoo! owning them. Yahoo! seems to strangle their new acquisitions, take del.icio.us for example, they’ve had a new version ready for almost a 6 months now, if I remember correctly.

    I do like Yahoo! but if Yahoo! can make great services stale then MS is going to make them worse; it’s their nature.

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    Hey, you seem to be going a little hard on them with the “finally getting off their ass and doing something great for the community” line – or was that just a joke?

    Anyway, it’s pretty cool news, if for no other reason than they’ll be giving YouTube some competition in the market of posting personal videos like the one you shared in this post.

    Mostly I just like the idea that you’re a fan of a service that will soon be brought to you by the big M$ :-)

  • http://dancameron.org Dan Cameron

    I’d probably leave flickr if MS took over.

    Because, the only reason I see the flickr team not being able to “get off their ass” was because of the mega corp Yahoo! owning them. Yahoo! seems to strangle their new acquisitions, take del.icio.us for example, they’ve had a new version ready for almost a 6 months now, if I remember correctly.

    I do like Yahoo! but if Yahoo! can make great services stale then MS is going to make them worse; it’s their nature.

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    I think you may be stuck in thinking about Microsoft as the same company they’ve always been, when that is not the case, but let’s not get into that debate here.

  • http://dancameron.org Dan Cameron

    I was only “half joking”.

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    :-)

  • nstryker

    well, regardless of microsoft’s hostile attempt, i just wanna say that using the bumpers and the ramp is just wrong. you get one novice cheat at a time! using a cheat for both propulsion and trajectory is like…why don’t you just have her walk down to the end and knock the pins over by hand? it’ll be just as fun, and probably more of a challenge, cuz those lanes are like ice!

  • http://dancameron.org Dan Cameron

    If you want we can see who’s kid is better at bowling, without the ramp. Luckily they’ll both do better than Obama.

  • Dave Z

    Yea !! for Avery! We have to take Lexi there.