Flickr adds video-sharing

Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 9, 2008 2:37 AM | permalink

Hurrah! Flickr finally has a feature that allows you to upload, tag and flag short videos alongside of your photos. We use Flickr's private posting facility to share baby pictures with relatives all over the world, but haven't found anything as elegant for video sharing.

Video on Flickr is going to be defined by our incredible, diverse, far-flung and fabulously talented members. Some answers that we’ve come up with:
1. A long photo
2. Personal
3. Simple – not overproduced or slick
4. Possibly the best answer so far: The Great Unknown

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#1 posted by woolie , April 9, 2008 3:32 AM

I added a couple of my videos tonight.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/irees/2400781470/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/irees/2400762530/

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#2 posted by Patterner , April 9, 2008 5:20 AM

I gave up on Flickr when they decided that Germans
can watch swastikas, but not nipples.

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#3 posted by bedtimechamp , April 9, 2008 6:51 AM

Flickr video is going to be great for quick videos but for longer content such as vlog posts and short films Vimeo is still your best bet.

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#4 posted by whitlock , April 9, 2008 7:46 AM

YouTube's commenter culture is so uninviting that I avoided registering an account with them. Flickr's, on the other hand, is so positive that I am looking forward to this and am not afraid to make my own videos now.

Genuinely excited!

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#5 posted by mhains , April 9, 2008 8:50 AM

90 second time limit?

FAIL.

(Oh, wait, wrong website forum)

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#6 posted by space race ace , April 9, 2008 9:00 AM

This is great! Like you said, we use flickr for sharing private baby photos, but nothing is as easy or private for videos. This is perfect for kids -- I can catch them in a 90 second time frame, no problem. Needless to say, my parents will be thrilled!

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#7 posted by Tgg161

, April 9, 2008 9:02 AM

This will be a great way for people to rickroll the entire family.

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#8 posted by Paula Wirth

, April 9, 2008 11:44 AM

Hmmm. More videos of people's kids, cats, weddings, and their girlfriend/boyfriend/pornstar inclinations. Not sure if this is an improvement, as much as I am otherwise a flickr fan.

Not mentioned in most blogs either jumping on the flickr video bandwagon (or decrying the notion of a "You-Tube" flickr) -- flickr also just instituted differences in the ways group pool admins have to filter content, whether safe or unsafe. If an image is "moderate" (not particularly obscene), your group must be changed to 18+ (adults only) so that your members can continue to post moderate images. Made for an interesting morning for us admins.

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#9 posted by rossangeles

, April 9, 2008 11:54 AM

First video up. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rossangeles/2400689003/ Codec is miles beyond Youtube. You used to be able to embed Vimeo onto your Flickr page. I wonder if that's been disabled.

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#10 posted by shannonpatrick17 , April 9, 2008 1:08 PM

First let me say I love flickr, but this video ability feels so half ass to me. I blogged my opinion here :
http://shannonpatrick17.blogspot.com/2008/04/flickr-adds-90-second-video-uploading.html
plus watch my awesome fridget photo slide show (flickr inside my fridge).

Bedtimechamp is right, vimeo.com is how video sharing should be done.

Woolie I like your videos.

Rossangeles your videos rocks hard, great music (careful with that beverage man), it's like a perfect 90 sec short film. If only all the flickr videos could be of the same quality as yours then it would be a perfect world.

Paula Wirth I agree totally, it does not seem like an improvement at all.

and lastly WTF is up with this:
3. Simple – not overproduced or slick

um ok plus no more slick hdr photos or photoshopping, get real...

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#11 posted by Bionicrat2 , April 9, 2008 2:14 PM

The biggest reason I'm excited about Flickr having video is that I have yet to find a service that doesn't claim rights videos I post of my kid. Since services like YouTube are fast and easy I have begrudgingly used them. I looked into others that are consistently recommended but they all basically say "we can do what we want with videos." Now I have another option.

I've had many fears of Flickr adding video, but some of them are eased by the fact that only Pro users can upload.

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#12 posted by GammaBlog , April 11, 2008 4:34 AM

The video compression on Flickr is much better than YouTube. I put up a comparison here:
http://gammablog.com/2008/04/10/video-on-flickr-2/

It's funny, the first reaction of some in the community is NO!. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/novideos/
Which I think is silly. It's an extra service, not something that is forced on anyone.