Thats right! Flickr’s much rumored addition of video has come to fruition, rules apply, and rightly so. Flickr Pro members (me!) can now post a 90 second video in a wide range of formats to the site. The rules are pretty strict, again, they should be. Lots of cameras (Including my new one) can do time-lapse videos which are rarely above 90 seconds anyway.
I know there have been people saying that Flickr will just try to be another YouTube clone, as far as I am concerned, this is in a complete different league than the likes of YouTube, for a start, the rules that only Pro members can upload videos should stay forever, this will keep videos strictly for the intended purpose, time-lapse, long “photos” and also people testing video from new cameras and making small reviews on how the camera performs with video, also a fact that it is Pro only will keep quality control pretty strict.
Even though it is not intended to be a YouTube rival, Flickr Video could still fold under the pressure from these sites, we’ll soon see as this all pans out and spreads around the internet, afterall, Google owns YouTube and their biggest rival is Yahoo who incidentally, own Flickr.
TechCrunch got the news early and got a post on their site shortly after Flickr announced the news. TechCrunch have also uploaded a video to Flickr which I have embedded in this post via a new button that Flickr has provided for members to generate a piece of HTML, like YouTube, for your own site. The quality, as you can see is a good few rungs above YouTube.
We shall see.
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