Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Flickr adds video
Flickr, the popular photo sharing service, has just added video sharing to its offerings. Short videos, up to 90 seconds and 150 megabytes, may be uploaded, shared and commented upon alongside users’ photos. The brief time limit sets the service apart from other video sites such as YouTube or Vimeo, but Flickr clearly intends the service to be used for sharing short, slice-of-life videos they describe as “long photos”, rather than slickly-edited masterpieces.
Here’s one of the first examples I spied, shot with a Flip Video and edited in iMovie, by Scott Beale from Laughing Squid:
