Flickr from Photo Images to Video

By Azam on April 8, 2008

Flickr is going beyond static images and into motion video. Flickr is famous for its online photo sharing site and has become a favorite site with hardcore community of professional and armature photographers. The site originated form Game Neverending which needed a tool to host images. Flicker was founded by the husband and wife team of Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, and they later sold Flickr to Yahoo for a reported $35 million. In reality, they built one of the best properties on the web for photos. Flickr has become a destination itself and probably one of the coolest web application and social networks with real user following. The best aspect of the site is a clean UI for very easy viewing and sharing photos with family and friends. Video in Flickr will just make the experience even better.

In February, 70 million people in the United States watched a total of 2.9 billion video clips on YouTube, according to the research firm Nielsen Online. News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Video showed about 406 million clips to 21 million people in the United States to coming in second. Yahoo came in third place with 245 million clips shown to 21 million people in the United States.

Yahoo traditionally host video from professional media from news and entertainment. Yahoo earlier acquired Broadcast.com to target online videos space. Yahoo intends to differentiate itself from YouTube by hosting original content and avoid hosting copyrighted material.

Currently, Flickr video will be made only available to Flickr’s pro users that pay $24.95 subscription fee to host video s clips of 90 sec on site and available for everyone to view. The site will operate similar fashion to Flickr in which access and privacy setting to limit access to content according to users preference. Yahoo Flickr announced that expects to have improvement in the future for greater use and capabilities as the service evolves.

Flickr believes its service will offer a more highly personalized than the many competing Web sites that feature video, and that will help distinguish and offer greater appeal to users from other services . Flickr believes users will be attracted to the service offering by enabling users to host their pictures and video one a single service. Most digital cameras are video capable and will need to find

“What we are doing is going to meet a huge unmet need in the market,” predicted Kakul Srivastava, Flickr’s general manager. “Most people aren’t showing their personal videos at all right now.”

Flickr Photo Sharing

Flickr has a worldwide audience of 42 million in February and up 53 percent from year ago , according to comScore Media Metrix. The social networking site Facebook.com is the only larger photo sharing service with a worldwide audience of 65 million, according to comScore.

 

 

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