Flickr adds video!

While video has already hit the big time with YouTube, Vimeo, Revver and countless others, no release has gotten me excited about actually creating videos than Flickr's new video feature.  I actually said to Jen with real feeling behind it that I wanted to buy a video camera.  I've never wanted to hassle of tapes or the endless rising tide of hard disk space necessary to deal with video, not to mention the editing/rendering time.

I suppose the reason is that it's a site I love and already use and more importantly all of my friends already use it.  It's comfortable.  It's familiar.  It's simple and beautiful.  Not to mention that The Flip makes it look pretty damn easy for a very nice price.

And now all of my friends are MOVING like wizard pictures in Harry Potter!

I mean, how can you NOT love this?! (*Ahem* Vox we need embed support! :-)  You can go check out a whole bunch of other "editor's picks" from this group.

Of course, like anything on or off of the web it has its detractors...  Of course, if God came down from heaven and created ponies for every human being, there would still be people bitching saying "Ponies are smelly and too expensive to keep" or "Oh great, who's going to clean up all the horseshit?!" or "Horses make it dangerous for walkers!" or "You've been gone 2000 years and THIS is all you brought us!?" or "Hey, YOU'RE not supposed to be a black woman!?"

Like unemployment, there is always a baseline of assholes because some segment of the entire population at any one time is in a sufficiently shitty mood to want to ruin it for the rest.

But me?  I am a big fan.  Thank you, Flickr for proving once again (and time after time) that you guys are awesome.