UPDATE 2: Techcrunch, again, is confirming that Flickr is adding video soon. Maybe they actually are going to do it…

UPDATE: Yahoo again said today that they plan to add video to Flickr. Om Malik expressed concern as to whether this was a good idea or not. I agree.
Back in March of 2005, Unmediated called Mefeedia the “Flickr for video“. Fast forward 2 years to 2007, and we still don’t see video support on Flickr, although back in May, Michael Arrington from Techcrunch wrote that they are working on it. But do we really need it? There are so many options for uploading videos nowadays. Just a run through some of key stats demonstrate that:

• Mefeedia aggregates:

• 24,000 video feeds
• Over 14,000 video sites (i.e. any site that contains some form of video - video sharing sites, video blogs, video news, etc.)
• These video sites include over 300 “video sharing” sites, all major blogging platforms, video blogger sites, and news sites.

This results in a huge volume of video. Some video tracking examples:

• iPhone videos (943 videos currently)
• Harry Potter book release
• There are a lot more examples of tagging videos, creating video playlists, putting together video guides, and creating personal channels.

Would Flickr be better off being a hyper-aggregator for video? Ff they do go that route, they could do the same thing to Yahoo Video that they have done to Yahoo Photos. Of course, this would put them in competition with Mefeedia, but i am confident our 2 year head-start will help. Mefeedia already kicked butt when it came to hyper-aggregation of video compared to the “big guys” back in April:

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