Apr
flickr does video
Well, there’s a surprise, the world leader in photo sharing has jumped on the video bandwagon. To be honest, it’s not all that surprising, we’ll have a think about why not. In the mean time, this is an embedded Flickr video, the quality is really not bad at all. (YouTube esque, except they now have higher quality).
What’s interesting about this move on Flickr’s behalf is that they obviously want to get people staying with them for every bit of media they want to share. I recently joined the site ‘Vimeo‘, which has a lovely interface, and does HD video, et al.
I think that Flickr wants to make sure that they keep people that could potentially leave, even though this wouldn’t happen since their photography based anyway, but it gives people that may have the odd video to upload, the option to just upload them to Flickr now.
However, the videos are limited to 90s which is a little short, and 150mb, which I think is less of an issue. So, I think these really are meant to be just little snap shots, or ‘elongated photographs’ if you will!
Check it out: Flickr
Charlie -
Short analysis on *why* Flickr is doing video….
A quick little analysis on why flickr has started allowing it’s members to upload video alongside their photos….
April 9th, 2008 at 11:24 amHa, I was thinking along the same lines!
April 9th, 2008 at 11:53 amI think it is a handy little tool.
April 11th, 2008 at 10:03 amThe timing of it though… Flickr is owned by Yahoo who is in the midst of a takeover battle with Microsoft, who’s trying to out-Google Google, and who doesn’t have a popular video site.
They’re also proving that they can add content to their site without disrupting business, therefore adding another potential revenue stream.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:33 pmVery true, it’s probably all a part of this take over bid. Thanks for that!
April 11th, 2008 at 2:38 pm