April 9, 2008
Submit Your Videos to DCist Through Flickr
If you're a regular Flickr user, you probably noticed that sometime yesterday they enabled an exciting new feature: video uploading. While they may not surpass the megavideoempire YouTube in popularity anytime soon, it is pretty sweet for those of us who like to keep our online media all in one place.
In keeping lockstep with the online community, we've created a new DCist Videos group on Flickr for you, the reader, to contribute your hilarious footage of tourists falling off their Segways or whatever interesting events you happen upon in our fine city. So click over and join the group, and please be sure to tag your videos with "DCist" as well as any other descriptor that will let us find it in a search. Unfortunately, only Pro Members can upload videos, and they're limited to 90 seconds in length.
As usual, keep on submitting your images to our DCist Photos pool. We look forward to seeing what you guys contribute!
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Many Flickr members are quite unhappy about the video incursion.
Wow, the outcry against videos is pretty intense on Flickr. I wonder what our DCist contributing photogs feel about this. Judging what we have so far, I see this being a cornucopia of suck.
Well, I was semi-excited when I realized that they started to support video. Then I thought about it for a while and now I'm quite displeased. Flickr will now be inundated with YouTube-caliber videos that truly degrade the site's integrity as the leading edge in photo sharing. It truly is a sad thing and I don't like it one bit.
Take it a step further, yonas. This move, precipitated by corporate merger-acquisition battles over parent company Yahoo, will end up diluting the brand strength of flickr, endangering the user community and serving nobody.
Yeah, god knows there are no crappy photos on flickr.
My problem with this sort of "levereged corporate synergy" is that it's stupid. Some senior manager clowns got together and cooked up the brilliant idea, "People look at photos, people look at video. Let's do both!" And all the suckbutt underlings were stumbling over eachother to give eachother blowjobs.
These are probably the same dumbasses who thinks everyone wants a web browser in their refrigerator. Do any of these people even have a kitchen, or do they eat out at Morimoto every goddamned night?
They live in Philly?
The 90-second limit is pretty lame and makes the feature near useless.