Showing posts with label Flickr video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flickr video. Show all posts
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
When was the last time that Yahoo did something that mattered
Earlier this week I mocked Flickr Video as I simply don't buy the idea of anyone needing yet another video-sharing platform. And apparently I'm not the only one because there are already two prominent Flickr groups: one called "We Say NO to Videos on Flickr" (26.000+ members) and "NO VIDEO ON FLICKR!!!" (11.000+ members).
I had also mentioned that it's definitely yet another sign of Yahoo trying to catch up with Google (and thereby increasing the price that Microsoft or whoever is going to pay for the inevitable take-over). Continuing this line of thought I started asking myself whether I had used any Yahoo services apart from Flickr in the recent past. The answer is no. So I took it a step further and looked back at 2006-2007 and the interesting things that happened there when it comes to ICT. Again, Yahoo didn't come up except for me signing up for a Flickr Pro account last year.
What am I trying to say? Frankly speaking I'm not quite sure. However I do have to admit that Yahoo these days reminds me of a dark version of Schrödinger's Cat. Nobody is quite sure what's inside the box but the longer we wait to look inside the bigger the chance that the cat has died from natural causes.
I had also mentioned that it's definitely yet another sign of Yahoo trying to catch up with Google (and thereby increasing the price that Microsoft or whoever is going to pay for the inevitable take-over). Continuing this line of thought I started asking myself whether I had used any Yahoo services apart from Flickr in the recent past. The answer is no. So I took it a step further and looked back at 2006-2007 and the interesting things that happened there when it comes to ICT. Again, Yahoo didn't come up except for me signing up for a Flickr Pro account last year.
What am I trying to say? Frankly speaking I'm not quite sure. However I do have to admit that Yahoo these days reminds me of a dark version of Schrödinger's Cat. Nobody is quite sure what's inside the box but the longer we wait to look inside the bigger the chance that the cat has died from natural causes.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Thoughts on Flickr Video
In case you've missed it:
Flickr Video is Yahoo's attempt to catch up with Google's YouTube by hitchhiking on the popularity of the photo-sharing website and its strong community.
In my opinion this will go down in history as:
If you’re a pro member, you can now share videos up to 90 glorious seconds in your photostream. ["Video on Flickr"]I'm going to play devil's advocate here and ask:
Who needs Flickr Video? [me, now]Or less provocative:
Who needs Flickr Video when there's blip.tv, revver.com, YouTube and a million other video-sharing websites? [me, a minute later]Just like there'll always only be one Digg with and one Slashdot with a million also-rans following them I don't believe that the world really needs another video-sharing platform. Really, what incentive is there for posting a video-clip on Flickr Video instead of any of the other websites that I've mentioned above? Maybe because the 90 second limit is so alluring as someone suggested in a comment:
...the 90 seconds is akin to the Twitter 140 character limit (perhaps). Look at it as a chance to be concise and powerful.Yeah, right...
Flickr Video is Yahoo's attempt to catch up with Google's YouTube by hitchhiking on the popularity of the photo-sharing website and its strong community.
In my opinion this will go down in history as:
Too little, too late. [me, 3 minutes later]
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