Flickr all set to support videos

Yahoo is all set to add support for home made videos on their Flickr photo sharing service.

This seems like a very late attempt by the company to take away users from Google owned YouTube service.

However, Flickr has a very loyal user base some of whom pay for unlimited storage capacity on Flickr.

This new feature could result in these users relying on Flickr to store their home videos rather than on YouTube.

Yahoo also has its own Video service but that deliver content from media outlets and other outside professionals.

Flickr said that their paying members would be allowed to host videos of up to 90 seconds on the service.

Kakul Srivastava, Flickr’s general manager spoke about this new feature: “What we are doing is going to meet a huge unmet need in the market. Most people aren’t showing their personal videos at all right now.”

Update: Videos on Flickr is now active and available to all Pro Flickr members. Features:

* Video uploading for Flickr pro members
* The ability for free and pro members to view public video clips
* Video limits up to 90 seconds long and 150MB maximum in size
* Controls to make videos private, visible to friends and/or family, or public
* Seamless integration of videos into the photostream, along with photos
* The ability to share video clips individually, as part of a set, or embed on third-party Web sites
* Tagging and geotagging capabilities for videos
* The ability to search videos by tags and descriptions
* The ability to upload videos directly from camera phones
* The option to view videos on a full screen
* Licensing options to mark a video as ‘All Rights Reserved’ or designate a license through Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/)
* Application programming interface (API) for third party developers to create programs or services using authorized video submitted to Flickr

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