The rumors are spot on. Flickr no longer just a photo sharing site, it does videos to. If Google manage to snag up YouTube and have the online video market covered for a couple of years, this Flickr move to make video sharing available might just be Yahoo!’s ticket to enter the online video sharing market. Yes, Yahoo bought Flickr a few years back.

You are only permitted to upload up-to 90 seconds of video. While this limitation might seem like a joke to other online video sites, but Flickr’s reasoning behind this is that they threat videos like “long photos”, capturing slices of life to share.

I love Flickr because of how they had designed their site, the look and feel. It is always clear in it’s user interface that it is all about your photos. There are non of those complicated things like ads to take away one’s attention to photos.

I like how adding the video functionality they didn’t change much of the overall interface. I like how the video controls fades away while you watching a video. Makes it look like it’s just another photo, only it is moving. You can also embed videos.

While in YouTube, you know you are on a video site and you are aware that you are watching a video, with all the pause, play, timeline controls at the bottom. In Flickr it feels like you are still on a photo sharing site, just that some photos are moving.

I also like Flickr community then YouTube’s. All the comments in Flickr are nicer, as compare to what you can read in YouTube.