Flickr video
Awesome! Flickr now does videos too! A long overdue feature considering compact cameras with video features have been around for ages.
Video! Video! Video! The rumours are true and “soon” is now. We’re thrilled to introduce video on Flickr. If you’re a pro member, you can now share videos up to 90 glorious seconds in your photostream.90 seconds? While this might seem like an arbitrary limit, we thought long and hard about how video would complement the flickrverse. If you’ve memorized the Community Guidelines, you know that Flickr is all about sharing photos that you yourself have taken. Video will be no different and so what quickly bubbled up was the idea of “long photos,” of capturing slices of life to share.
90 seconds is more than enough for those shoddy fun compact-cam-videos, imho. Best of all, the video compression used by Flickr is much better than YouTube’s ultra-low-res FLVs.
My test video
The frame-less window, controller, utility icons, etc., are all so much more elegant than what YouTube has. Great stuff… I’m in love!
