Flickr now video compliant

published : Wednesday, April 09, 2008 | model : ADOBE Photoshop CS3

Theme : Digital Photography | Photography software

THE world's biggest online photo community, Flickr, is now offering a service of video storage and sharing.

With over 2 billion images, Flickr, a Yahoo branch, is the world's largest online photo community. It is now looking at the success of YouTube and DailyMotion and launches the same service as for images, but for videos. Will Flickr loose its soul with this move ? Maybe, maybe not. Yet, the website knows that people firts come to Flickr for photography, not for videos. So Flickr is proposing a new angle of view in the video sharing segment : video films are limited to 90 seconds. That way, Flickr hopes to lure people who can't stand long and boring movies. They studied our viewing behaviors and noticed that nobody was watching videos longer than that. Flickr things that these short video films can be considered as "long photos".

For the moment, video service on Flicr is limited to Pro accounts. The supported video files formats are : WMV, AVI, MOV, MPEG 1/2/4, 3gp