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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