Yahoo adds video sharing to their Flickr photo website

Yahoo has added video sharing to its Flickr photo website in an effort to carve a niche in an on-line arena dominated by Google-owned YouTube.

Short videos can be posted along with pictures on Flickr pages that let users share images photo-album style with select people, as opposed to the way videos are displayed on YouTube for the world to see.

“Flickr is a very different experience from anything else out there,” Flickr director Kakul Srivastava said, demonstrating the video-sharing feature for AFP in the Internet firm’s San Francisco office. “We are not trying to be the highest volume site, but we are trying to be the most interesting, authentic and personal.”

The video-sharing feature rolled out Tuesday in eight languages on Flickr websites worldwide.

Only people with “pro” premium accounts, costing 25 dollars annually, can upload videos to their Flickr pages.

Source: Yahoo News

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