flickr has added or will be soon adding video. This worries me...
I really enjoy the focus of flickr, photos. All photos all the time. I worry it will become diluted. Perhaps full of junk videos of people's kids laughing at paper tearing, rickrolls and music videos.
It will take some time to find out what happens. If people post wonderful moving images of dance, flow, water, sky, trees, life.
I'm not sure if it is going to be positioned as an youtube competitor, which is what scares me most. While I enjoy youtube its full of garbage and duplicated content. Flickr has lots of new and original content. While you tube has original content as well I'm willing to guess there is much less original content than it does duplicate content and borrowed content. Not that flickr doesn't have its share of copy right violators but they are not typicaly a focus at flickr...
Posted by Ben at April 08, 2008 04:57 PMI don't think they're thinking Youtube competitor. Which is a good thing. I think the ability to store and share video is just a natural progression with a digital media site. I've wanted them to add video for years, hopefully this will be as awesome as I want it to be.
Posted by: dusty on April 8, 2008 06:31 PMhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/flickr-video-launches-a-unique-experience/
Booh to the size limitations. My videos taken with my digital camera weigh in around the 250mb range.
Though I like the clip length limitation. This guarantees a non-compete with Youtube and others...
Posted by: dusty on April 8, 2008 06:37 PMI uploaded a video on the fly just to check it out. Works pretty well. I'm not so enamored by the prospect, but if they let PRo users post longer vids.... I might see the value of putting everything on flickr.
Posted by: Kevin on April 8, 2008 08:33 PM