Flickr Video Launches - A Unique Experience
Written by on April 8th, 2008 in Ajax News.
Flickr users can now add video clips alongside their photos, a much requested and much anticipated feature that has been promised for over a year. The puppet version of Shel Israel graciously kicked things off for us by announcing the new feature in the Flickr Video below.
The product is not a YouTube clone by any means. The Flickr team, led by Director of Product Management Kakul Srivastava, spent considerable time debating the feature set and user experience internally before launch.
The goal is not to have people upload long videos, or clips of copyrighted material. To reinforce that, videos can be only 90 seconds in length (a limitation that may be changed later, Srivastava says). In a phone prebriefing I was very critical of this limitation. But the team then brought me in for a demo, and I was sold. The short clips are a perfect compliment to event photos, in my opinion. See this, for example.
Videos are treated the same way as photos, and are placed alongside those photos in albums and the main stream. Videos can also be tagged in the same way as photos.
The video player itself is extremely clean, so videos look like photos on pages that include them. Videos can also be embedded, of course, as we’ve done above.
Another great feature is the ability to play the videos from the thumbnail screens as well as the permanent page for the video.
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Source: TechCrunch
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