Yahoo extends Flickr with videos
Yahoo Inc. will begin showing homemade videos on its online photo-sharing site, Flickr, in a long-anticipated move that may be too late to lure most people away from the Internet’s dominant video channel, Google Inc.’s YouTube. Flickr’s video technology, to debut late Tuesday, represents the latest example of Yahoo trying to catch up to Google in a crucial battleground. Yahoo’s inability to keep pace with Google in the lucrative online search market caused its profits and stock price to sag during the past two years, which in turn triggered an unsolicited takeover attempt by Microsoft Corp. for more than $40 billion. Flickr’s new technology is aimed at amateurs and hobbyists looking for a better way to share short video clips with family and friends.
Only Flickr’s “pro” members — those who pay for a $24.95 annual subscription — will be allowed to transfer video clips of up to 90 seconds to the site, but anyone will be able to watch them. A privacy setting will allow videographers to limit access to the clips on Flickr if they want. The video service will be offered in English and seven other languages: French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese. Flickr believes its service will offer a more personal touch than the many other Web sites that feature video, and that will help distinguish it. Flickr managers also expect to appeal to people looking to keep their video and pictures on the same site.
Source: AP
Seriously…who cares?
So many video sites. Does this have to be on here?
oooh, that sucks, seriously…
It was the best photography website, and now it will be full of anime, videos of people falling from their bikes, camwhores, chocolate rain, and so on…
Is it just me or shouldn’t the title be ‘Flickr’ instead of ‘Flicks’. Or is it some sort of pun I don’t really get because I don’t have any kind of humor.
@2.
I don’t think you read the text. Those people you name in your listing don’t seem to me as the kind of people who’d pay 25 bucks for a subscription AND another thing is the limitation to 90 seconds per video.
youtube pwns flickr…nuff said
no more comments needed
I don’t see why someone would want to pay for something more limited (only 90 seconds) than you can get for free at Youtube etc. Only way to attract users from Youtube is to allow higher resolution, generous length limit, faster servers, for free.
@6 Flickr is primarily for pictures, the video feature is just a bonus, it’s not meant to compete with Youtube and the like.
And for images, Flickr is pretty much the shiznizzle. For $25/yr (which is about 5 euros or something with the current market) you get unlimited storage, amazing APIs, craploads of 3rd party tools and proper access controls all with a nifty UI.
Why do most people only read the first few lines (or posts in forums), stop reading, and then presume to post utter crap. If they’d have actually read the text, they could actually post something useful. But I guess that’s too much for the average 13year old leecher boy from next door.
lol what? 90 second videos? wtf is that?
90 secs of video? It’s a mistake for SURE. Lol
Flickr is one of the best photo sharing sites today. Although it would be much better if they just stick with it.
Flickr shouldn’t compete with youtube or any other video site.
They’ve got something special with the pics, adding the video just sweetens it up, but the 90sec+subscription seems a bit off.
If they’re worried about it filling up with endless amounts of useless video which youtube is full of, they could perhaps limit it to directors, photographers, etc…
Keep the quality on par if you know what I mean.
The average account with home footage & etc could have a 90sec limit, while other more professional video enthusiasts could have many more options & privileges.
Opinion:
Yahoo could have used a streamlining effort long ago. Now they add some more crap to it.
I think my Grandma uses Yahoo. I always frown when someone tells me their address is crusty@yahoo.com.
Will flikr videos come up in Google searches?
you gotta pay to upload? pfft The sooner yahoo dissappears, the better. It serves absolutely no purpose at all anymore
will yahoo sell itself to mic?
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