Flickr goes video

So, the "...best online photo management and sharing application in the world." has now introduced the ability to upload video.

Admittedly you are currently only able to upload 90 second clips and, according to the video FAQs, there are two ground rules:

1. Only “safe” and “moderate” video content is permitted. Your “beautiful wife” should not be moving. (Read more about content filters.)
2. Only upload videos you have created yourself.

With the wide spread availability of video recording functionality on compact digital cameras and mobile phones I guess it isn't surprising that the divide between still and moving images is starting to disappear.

However, maybe I'm too much of a purist, but surely there are already plenty of sites on the internet for sharing short video clips? Apparently there's a site called YouTube which is already quite popular.

I really like Flickr. I love the fact that it does a simple task very well.

I hope that this latest move is not just an attempt by Yahoo owned Flickr to try and impact on the success of the Google owned YouTube.