Flickr Add Video to its Popular Photo-Sharing Community, Flickr, a Yahoo Inc. company and one of the world’s fastest growing online photo-sharing communities, today launched video sharing.

Flickr stepping into video sharing is a definite positive step unlike many video sharing sites like YouTube, one thing flickr is tough about is moderated video content, that means the videos posted at flickr will be moderated, should be created by individuals only and should follow content policy by flickr. Apart from that flickr will only allow 90seconds of playback for the videos posted.

The video uploading is only available for Flickr pro members who can upload personal video clips and share them with friends, family
and the world.Flickr - which has grown from 27 million to 42 million monthly visitors worldwide in the past year(1) - serves as the ‘eyes of the world’ for its members globally, and with the addition of video, is giving people more ways to share what they see and experience in their everyday lives. The new enhancement is helping to advance Yahoo!’s goal to become the leading starting point on the Web by offering an even more engaging and relevant service for sharing, exploring and discovering digital imagery.

As pro members around the world upload personal video clips on Flickr, people can see, share, and experience the world in motion through the eyes of the Flickr community. Video on Flickr will be available in eight languages including English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese. This new feature provides:

Features of Flickr Video Sharing

• Video uploading for Flickr pro members
• The ability for free and pro members to view public video clips
• Video limits up to 90 seconds long and 150MB maximum in size
• Controls to make videos private, visible to friends and/or family, or public
• Seamless integration of videos into the photostream, along with photos
• The ability to share video clips individually, as part of a set, or embed on third-party Web sites
• Tagging and geotagging capabilities for videos
• The ability to search videos by tags and descriptions
• The ability to upload videos directly from camera phones
• The option to view videos on a full screen
• Licensing options to mark a video as ‘All Rights Reserved’ or designate a license through Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/)
• Application programming interface (API) for third party developers to create programs or services using authorized video submitted to Flickr

Ref : Yahoo Press Release, Flickr Blog,

Adobe on Monday released its Air Technology previously known as Apollo, for creating cross-platform hybrid Web & desktop applications.

The AIR runtime lets developers run applications on the desktop that they’ve built for the Web using standard Web languages like HTML, AJAX, and Flash. AIR is available for Windows and Mac OS now, with Linux to follow. Adobe also announced several AIR-based applications. Most notable among these for consumers are eBay Desktop, which allows eBay buyers and sellers to keep track of their auctions and get notified of activity; and AOL’s Xdrive Desktop Lite, an installed interface for accessing online-stored files without a browser.

“This is a major step forward for the Adobe RIA technology platform,” said Phil Costa, Adobe’s Director of Product Management for the Platform Business Unit, in an interview with PC Magazine last Friday. “We have been investing in rich Internet application technology for many, many years, but it’s really in the last 18 months that the market demand has recognized its value to improving the user experience.”

Top 5 Adobe Air Applications

1. Snitter for Air
   Snitter is “Snook’s Twitter”: an Adobe AIR-powered application for twittering. Twitter let’s you post small 140 character messages letting people know what you’re up to.
   http://snook.ca/snitter/
2. Digg Top Adobe Air
   DiggTop is an application for Windows and MacOSX that lets you view a blended list of your favourite Digg topic or keyword feeds. In addition to the full Digg submission information, it will also display a slideshow of images it can scrape from the linked articles
   http://www.gskinner.com/DiggTop/
3. AOL Top 100 videos Adobe Air
   Download the latest desktop widget from AOL Music featuring the top 100 hottest music videos, related artist videos and special features. This widget is available for free and currently works on both MAC and PC computers.
   http://music.aol.com/help/syndication/desktop-widgets
4. Google Analytics on Adobe AIR:
   This application helps you track your site traffic from the desktop. Currently it does not provide all the information and reports Google Analytics shows but does a good job of showing pretty basic ones.
   http://www.aboutnico.be/index.php/analytics-widget/
5. Flickr Dump on Adobe Air:
   (Flickr dump) is an AIR application that allows you to download all the public images from a Flickr Account to your desktop. Quite useful when you want to quickly download all the shared photos from your friends and save it to your desktop.
   http://onair.adobe.com/blogs/tour/2007/08/09/new-air-app-flump-flickr-dump/