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| Flickr Adds Video to its Photo-Sharing Community Flickr, a Yahoo! company and one of the world's fastest growing online photo-sharing communities, launches video sharing. Flickr pro members can now upload personal video clips and share them with friends, family and the world. Flickr – which has grown from 27 million to 42 million monthly visitors worldwide in the past year – serves as the 'eyes of the world' for its members globally, and with the addition of video, is giving people more ways to share what they see and experience in their everyday lives. Video on Flickr provides an easy and fun solution for consumers to release the personal video clips stored away in their cameras. According to a recent survey commissioned by Yahoo!, more than 40 percent of respondents ages 18-44 are capturing personal video clips with their digital cameras, but they are not taking advantage of Web sites to effectively share their videos. Fifty-five percent of respondents merely play back video clips for their friends on their camera device or PC, and 20 percent don't share these clips at all. The new video uploading feature will support up to 90 seconds of personal video footage captured with the video function of any digital video recording device including still cameras, camcorders and camera phones. Video on Flickr gives members a glimpse into daily and extraordinary activities, from watching dogs play in a park to seeing someone climb Machu Picchu. Flickr members can organize and share videos just like they do photos; they can upload videos to their photostream along with their photos, and set their privacy settings for friends, family or the world to see. Videos will be moderated through a combination of Flickr team review, community review and automated abuse-spotting mechanisms. As pro members around the world upload personal video clips on Flickr, people can see, share, and experience the world in motion through the eyes of the Flickr community. Video on Flickr will be available in eight languages including English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese. This new feature provides: - 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; - Application programming interface (API) for third party developers to create programs or services using authorized video submitted to Flickr. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |