I kinda like the angle they chose, limiting clips to 90 seconds — after all, if you extrapolate the traditional Flickr usage, people are gonna want to post either 10-second clips from their cellphones, or two-hour art projects. And you can’t realistically offer to host the latter, so let’s set Flickr very clearly apart from YouTube and all the rest.

The part that sucks, though, is that according to Webware (I can’t find confirmation on the Flickr FAQ, but the example videos I viewed seem to confirm it) videos seem to be converted to 12 frames per second. It’s nice to have better image quality than YouTube, but I think framerate limitations are pushing too far the homage to early-19th-century photography. Why not turn the videos black and white and put an animated grain overlay on top of the Flash players while you’re at it? That would reduce bandwidth usage, too.

(Oh, this post remained as a draft for 36 hours for no reason.)