A screen capture of Flickr's new feature, Flickr Clock.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Photo hosting website Flickr (www.flickr.com) announced on Monday via its blog that it is expanding its video hosting service to the entire Flickr community.
The site introduced the service to its paid members last spring, enabling them to upload 90-second video clips to their pages.
Now, users with free accounts will be able to upload two videos per month, in addition to the site’s 100MB monthly photo upload limit.
The uploaded videos will be displayed in users’ galleries alongside regular photos, and can either be played inline as a thumbnail or expanded out for larger viewing.
The Flash-based videos appear as standard still images and can be activated by a small “Play” triangle icon that appears on the lower left-hand side of the image thumbnail.
The company has also enhanced the service with high-definition video quality to accommodate the popularity of HD cameras.
So far, only Pro members will be able to upload videos in HD, while the entire community will have the ability to view high quality videos.
Flickr has also introduced Flickr Clock, which lets members “share their vision of what’s happening at any given minute around the world,” according to the Flickr blog. Users can upload their videos to share with the rest of the Flickr community, where they will be displayed across a timetable on the Flickr Clock page.
The new features were integrated into the Flickr site Monday evening in a total of eight languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese.
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