Media News - Thursday, April 10, 2008
Flickr to offer video sharing
Photo-sharing website Flickr has confirmed months of speculation and responded to demands from its users to introduce video sharing. Announcing the new service on the Flickr blog Wednesday, community manager Heather Champ said that videos would be limited to 90 seconds and 150Mb in size. The Yahoo-owned photo site will be keen to differentiate its service from the video-sharing market leader, YouTube, and has been careful to integrate the service with the more cohesive Flickr community. Videos appear alongside photos in a Flickr user's photoset, but the video service will only be available to ‘pro’ users of the site who pay USD 24.95 a year for more features and a bigger upload allowance. Champ also announced that the site is doubling the upload allowance for free accounts and for pro accounts. Flickr was bought by Yahoo for USD 35m in March 2005 and is one of the web company's strongest web 2.0 propositions. The site topped 2bn photos in November and between 3m and 5m images are uploaded every day. (The Guardian)
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