MetaChat - Hooray for Flickr Video!

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08 April 2008

Hooray for Flickr Video! Now you all have to watch videos of my adorable cats.

post by: scarabic at: 21:52 | 22 comments

O good to know! I am going to go watch the rest of yours. I just uploaded a cat playing with rug video to YouTube; I would have done flickr if I had known!!

posted by Sil 08 April | 22:08

I think it just launched. They would have gotten more PR but they've been promising/delaying this for a long time, and I'm sure Yahoo!'s recent fortunes are weighing them down too.

I like Flickr tons and I'd prefer to keep my photos and video clips in one place. I'm not a moviemaker so the 90 second limit is no problem for more. My videos are just clips like these. Moving picture snapshots from around the house / my life.

Their UI is pretty good but I found the upload terribly slow, and the playback is not as snappy as YouTube. Video quality looks better than YouTube, though. These were shot with my Flip Ultra. Everyone needs to own one of those...

posted by scarabic 08 April | 22:18

They are adorable!

posted by typewriter 08 April | 22:39

I had no idea how prescient I was being recording this: Mrs. Pants slaps eamondaly!

posted by me3dia 08 April | 23:16

Damn, the Mrs. Pants video has only 37 views so far but already one of those annoying group admins posted a comment. Fucking locusts.

posted by mullacc 08 April | 23:24

I know, seriously.

posted by me3dia 08 April | 23:26

I can't abandon YouTube. I've already angered my first YewTewb commenter (self-link). Don't ask me to give that up.

No, really, I really pissed him off.

posted by middleclasstool 08 April | 23:37

Also: does everyone but me own a Flip now?

posted by middleclasstool 08 April | 23:38

OMG FLICKR VIDEO WHAT

posted by CitrusFreak12 08 April | 23:39

does everyone but me own a Flip now?

Apparently not. What's a Flip?

posted by bmarkey 08 April | 23:54

Love those whiskers. The grey cat on a grey blanket and white whiskers, great looking, nice light.

Great cats.

Flickr video sure looks crisper than UTube's.

posted by alicesshoe 09 April | 00:09

LOL, middleclasstool!

So how adorable are mrs. pants and eamondaly? Pretty effing cute, I'd say.

posted by taz 09 April | 02:25

Seconding "pretty effing cute", and "no, what's a flip."

posted by rainbaby 09 April | 05:53

scarabic has it linked in his first comment: The Flip.

posted by middleclasstool 09 April | 08:02

Heh, I love watching cats chase their tails. And you have a cute baby, middleclasstool.

posted by gaspode 09 April | 09:47

OMG you jerks. 2 minutes ago I didn't know they existed, and now I have to buy a Flip.

posted by misskaz 09 April | 09:48

Ah yeah. And what misskaz said.

posted by gaspode 09 April | 10:01

Yet Again. . .the future has broken upon me while I was still inadequately struggling to deal with a now obsolete present.

*sigh*

posted by danf 09 April | 10:02

Nifty! I've been meaning to upload this to Youtube but flickr wins.

posted by deborah 09 April | 12:24

yay!

posted by taz 09 April | 12:36

I has two cat movies. [1] [2]

They aren't on flickr (my pro acct expired), but I'm posting them anyway.

posted by krix 09 April | 14:29

Ha! Those are hilarious, krix. I love the music choices.

posted by deborah 09 April | 20:10

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