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flickr has been hinting at including video for a while now and now it’s there. I haven’t uploaded anything yet, but it  looks as easy as uploading photos. Check out  flickr’s blog post on the new service and their FAQ page as well.

Videos can be a max of 90 seconds  and no more than 150 MB.  Video upload is available to Pro members, though anyone can view video content. I like flickr’s description of video as being a “long photo”.  I like that they’re trying something new that members have asked for and that they’re not quite sure how it will work or where it will go. Trusting their community, way to go flickr!

I’m so glad I’ve taken some short videos this week, I’m going to see if I can upload something.

(via Angela at Melange)

Ever wondered how to add a flickr slideshow to your website? Or a YouTube video? Or a PowerPoint slideshow? Check out this great article by Aaron Schmidt: Widgets and Widgetry for Librarians: Copy, Paste, and Relax in MultiMedia & Internet@Schools (Posted Mar 1, 2008)

Widgets pull in updated content, making your web site less static (and less boring?)

Adding a widget is easy. Usually just a short form to fill out and then a snippet of code to copy and paste to your website. You really don’t have to know anything about the code. (Though you do need to be able to edit your web pages.)

With widgets you can have your del.icio.us bookmark links updating on your page, the most recent YouTube videos, photos from your flickr account, books you’re recommending via LibraryThing and so much more.

If you want to see a whole bunch of flickr photo widgets in action, check out my flickr slide show examples page.

Go get widgety!

Thanks to Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian, for posting so many great photos of DOK - Library Concept Center in Delft, The Netherlands (aka the Delft Public Library).

What a trip it was to spin through these late last night in her flickr account. My head is still spinning.

Click on the slide set below to see a few of the pictures, but be sure to go directly to Jenny’s flickr account to see the whole thing. It looks like an absolutely amazing place - both architecturally and in the services offered. What fun! Field trip anyone?

Full set of photos at flickr

Tech Soup and flickr have partnered to offer flickr accounts to qualifying non-profits. These accounts normally cost $25/year. Through this deal, non-profits can apply for either:

• Two 1-year Pro Accounts (admin fee of $6)
• Five 1-year Pro Accounts (admin fee of $25)

Why apply for more than one account? flickr accounts are for individuals, not organizations. This way, a number of staff members can have their own accounts.

Description: Flickr is an online application for storing, organizing, sharing, and discussing photos. A Flickr pro account allows unlimited storage, photos up to 10 MB in size, organization into any number of sets and collections of sets, and submission into the pools of up to 60 Flickr groups.

flickr is  handy tool for for using photos to showcase what your organization is all about. So, if you’ve been thinking about getting a Pro flickr account, here’s your chance.

(via Librarian in Black)

Wow, how’d I miss this? Starting sometime in Dec, flickr started offering a nice statistics page for users who opt in. You can sort your photos by: total # of views for all time, total views last week and total views yesterday. Also sortable by: photos that have been ‘favorited’ by others and “interestingness”. There’s a list of referring web sites too.

Clicking on photo thumbnail displays data for (more…)

Got a dirty screen? Files that need to be eradicated? Fingerprints on the case? Viruses? Use the sanitize cycle and kill all those nasty bugs. Don’t forget the rinse to give it all a nice sparkle.

I’m not the only one making good use of my dishwasher over the holiday:

• jblyberg
• scampion
• itsjustkate
• and so it grows…

Happy Thanksgiving to all!