Ryan McFarland

Flickr announced that you can now upload videos up to 90 seconds long if you’re a pro member. I thought I’d give some brief impressions comparing the Flickr video service to YouTube. Here’s a video i uploaded to Youtube a while ago…

I like that on myspace you can see a list of the sites that link to your video. Another nice feature is the number of views your video has.

And I just uploaded the video to Flickr. It gives you a progress bar while the video uploads so you know how long you’ll be waiting. After the upload and processing you can then embed the video…

I really like that there isn’t a Flickr ad on the corner of my video like YouTube has. I also love the way the status bar fades in and out depending on the cursor presence.  You also can easily watch the video full screen.

At the end of the Flickr video it provides a link to my profile, option to comment and even a share this icon. Finally, next to the link to my Flickr profile is a text link to Flickr.

I foresee switching all my videos over… now…which one’s default code validates better with my doc type?YouTube has 6 markup errors and Flickr has 4.

Just hours after warning about the potential for a flood of incorrect attribution of Flickr photos, i received this message on Flickr.

I love your “waiting in seattle“shot!

Hi Ryan,

I am a writer for the popular personal finance & frugal living site Wise Bread. I am putting together an article on passport photos and would love to use your shot as the header. I will of course provide proper attribution, credit, and a link.

If there is any problem please let me know and I’ll remove the shot. I expect it to be published within a week.

Thank you in advance!
Nora Dunn

I actually had never been to Wise Bread until just yesterday when Consumerist linked to one of their articles.

I pointed out before that Consumerist has featured photos of mine in the past.  As a pagerank 7 website those incoming links are great for my site.  I specify in my Flickr photo descriptions that credit has to be given to zieak.com and Ryan McFarland.  Unfortunately, a new plugin for Wordpress has been released that will allow any blogger to easily insert Flickr photos of any user that has an open Creative Commons license right into their blog posts.  The PhotoDropper plugin automatically adds credit to the photographer by grabbing the user name and linking to the Flickr profile.  No consideration for any special instructions will be made by anyone using this plugin.  I think the plugin serves a wonderful purpose.  I just really would like credit passed to my site instead of Flickr.

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