Flickr‘s long rumored video feature has arrived. I’ve gathered the details that Webware, Techcrunch and Wired have outlined:
To upload your video (if your a Pro Flickr member) head to the web uploader page (the Uploadr app can’t handle video yet) and upload your movie.
Flickr Videos are obviously intended to be a “video photo album” with small clips accompanying with photos. Certainly, this isn’t a YouTube replacement. Yahoo already has a competing product, with Yahoo Videos. That being said, who knows where this will lead. At some point we could see that 90 second rule laxed and eventually see more of a YouTube-type feature set. I’d expect the uploading capability will be rolled out to free account users eventually, but for now it’s a Pro-Flickr exclusive. One thing I’ve noticed while browsing the sample embedded videos this evening is that there are some slow buffering problems with playback, but that may be because of so many people accessing the very few videos out there at the moment.
Flickr has a nice long must-read FAQ on their new Flickr Videos.
Check out more of Brent’s reflections on tech, gadgets, software and media at Brent Evans Geek Tonic.