Flickr Will Soon Host Videos

I’m not sure how this caught my eye, but somehow I ended up on the Flickr blog on a post announcing that Flickr will be adding a video hosting service to their arsenal. Immediately, I thought “Well, there goes the neighborhood,” as Flickr would only join the ranks of every other video sharing service out there with imbeciles on skateboards and babies dancing for their parent’s Internet fame. However, as I continued to read, I found that Flickr wasn’t trying to just be another video web site. Their idea surrounds the use of video to portray “long photos.” Just as photographs can capture a single moment of life, video can capture a single moment, too, just a longer moment. Flickr is trying to keep this ideal by allowing video clips no longer than 90 seconds.

No doubt this will be popular, but will it “dirty” the Flickr many of us have grown to love?