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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 06: Malkia cyril participates in a panel discussion at Alamo Drafthouse New Mission on June 6, 2017 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 30: CEO of EnduroSar Raycho Raychev, Head of Technology Transfer and Business Incubation Office Frank Salzgeber, Founder of Promus Ventures Mike Collett, CEO and Co-Founder of ICEYE Rafal Modrzewski and moderator Frederic Lardinos speak on stage during TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018 at Treptow Arena on November 30, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
I said that I thought Techcrunch sounded like a cereal robots would eat. Mystery Guest obliged with a cartoon showing exactly that.
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 30: Director, Product Management at Instagram Robby Stein and Josh Constine speak on stage during TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018 at Treptow Arena on November 30, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
I wish YouTube would be more like flickr. I do not wish flickr would be more like YouTube. We shall see.
Michael Arrington at Techcrunch:
In mid 2005 I profiled YouTube for the first time. As Steve Rubel noted, the best way to describe it was “like Flickr, but for videos.” At the time few people saw the massive upside for YouTube, which was built completely on freely available Flash technology from Adobe. Flickr seemed like the far more interesting product.
Just a few months earlier Flickr had been acquired by Yahoo. And given how slow things were moving in 2005, few people thought YouTube would have the kind of success that Flickr had seen. But just a year later YouTube was suddenly worth $1.65 billion, and users were frustrated that they could upload their vacation photos to Flickr, but not the videos.
Yahoo has long promised to bring video to Flickr. In May 2007 co-founder Stewart Butterfield told us that users would be able to upload videos “soon.” This was reconfirmed in August 2007. But now, nearly three years after Yahoo bought them, and on their fourth birthday as a company, users are not able to upload videos to their Flickr accounts.
But rumors are flying that Yahoo intends to integrate video into Flickr very soon, perhaps in the next three weeks. Part of the delay may have been a long internal debate about how to make Flickr Video special and distinct from what YouTube already offers. They apparently have come to some product decisions, and will be making an announcement soon.
Yahoo PR and other employees are still dead quiet on the subject (I asked every one of them at the party tonight), but the buzz is growing and the leaks haven’t been totally contained. Get ready for Flickr Video. It’s coming. Really.
BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 30: Director, Product Management at Instagram Robby Stein and Josh Constine speak on stage during TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018 at Treptow Arena on November 30, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Caroline McCarthy speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013 at The Manhattan Center on May 1, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch)