In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, Flickr launched their much-anticipated video feature. Die hard photogs launched complaints about it, saying that Flickr is for photos, not videos.

These aren’t videos. These are moving pictures. Let me explain it to you.

You can only load a 90s clip up to Flickr. You precious Flickr isn’t going to degrade to Youtube anytime soon. The way the 90s videos fall inline with the photos is ingenious. How many times have you looked at a photo on and wished you could experience more? I have countless times. These little videos allow users to get a little more of the experience a photographer was trying to express in a photo. A picture of an awesome store is one thing. Getting to feel 90 seconds of it is another. Sure, you’ll get some things in there that aren’t really that great, but the possibilities for this feature far outweigh the cons.

iJustine sums it up pretty good.

(Video: Viddler’s Featured Video for April 11, 2008 - Snippet No. 3 by gamwyn)

No, that’s not my video, but it does let me demonstrate a cool feature in the new Viddler Video Commenting plugin for Wordpress 2.5.

The new Write Post area of Wordpress contains a nifty Add Media section where you can choose videos, images, and sound clips to embed in your posts. Colin Devroe’s (from Viddler) Video Commenting Plugin adds, among many other things, an extra tab for Viddler. From this tab, you can bring in featured videos, choose one of your own, or even create a whole new video right in your Wordpress admin area. Since it’s powered by Viddler, you get to take advantage of all the inline commenting features Viddler’s known for. The plugin also makes it really easy for your commenters to join the conversation.

Check it out at the Viddler Lab

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• Damn it. @brittanygreene managed to get !brittany on Pownce. People who claimed ‘lee’ never uses their names, which makes me sad. #

• @TechCrunch Um, burn? Epic, even. #
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• I’ll be watching my clock diligently as 9PT/11CT approaches. I want to try to be one of the ones that gets into the Google App Engine beta. #
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• 10 seconds left in the 2nd half is the perfect time to start watching the game, right? #
• Hmm. Maybe I shouldn’t have started watching. That was kinda sad, Memphis. You got this though. Please? #
• And by "maybe I shouldn’t have started watching" I meant that I may possibly be a bad luck charm of some kind. #
• Alright. I’m turning the TV off in hopes that me not watching will some how make Memphis stop hemorrhaging points to Kansas. #
• @cdevroe Yeah, its definitely a Gravatar. The only place I’ve ever put that the av that popped up on your comments is Gravatar & Pownce. #
• @stammy You too, huh? #
• Grr. I had a feeling the Techcrunch link wouldn’t be it. Oh well. Waitlisted for Google App Engine. #
• That’s cool/interesting. There is a little blurb at the bottom of the App Engine page about how to Waitlist your Google App Domain. Hrm. #
• Hmm. Maybe I need an easel for my whiteboard. That could be cool. Maybe I should go to Wal-Mart in search of one. #
• I hear rumblings about how the closed-ness of AppEngine can’t hold a candle to AWS. They are forgetting that AppEngine is free to start. #
• @Stammy I just got my invite for App Engine. You probably have one in your inbox too if you waitlisted before I did. #
• It appears that today will be "Learn Python" day. Joy. #
• @cdevroe I’ve only setup one cron job on Dreamhost before, but it ran fine. You’re using the web interface to set it up, right? #
• @cdevroe Hmm. The only thing I might have had issue with is that weird extra directory in the full path to files (/home/.<server>/ … #
• @cdevroe Let me remember how to find it real quick. Mine is /home/.jerzy/<username>/domain , but your extra thing could be different #
• @cdevroe ls -la /home/cdevroe will give that .<server> thing. #
• @cdevroe Supposedly it isn’t needed, but I had to have it for it to work (along with making sure I used full paths to php/python binaries) #
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• @Stammy "Opened the room to my door" #
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• @ponzarelli Oops. You just asploded the intartubes. #

• @alexknowshtml Best. Playlist. Ever. #
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• For the first time in my college career, I just exercised a 15 minute rule for a no-show professor. Word. #
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• Facebook Search is the most unreliable thing I’ve ever used. Every other time I use it, its "Unavailable at this time". #

• Grr. AIR is pissing me off. Anyone know how to force it to display remote SWFs? The sandbox its in keeps denying it. #
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• Not feeling very productive with coding today, so I’ll work on the oft-delayed ethernet/coax wiring of the new room/office space. #
• And there we go. Ethernet is back in my room after a month of absence. Does Xbox Live work?…yep! What? I’ve not played CoD4 in 103 days?! #

• Shit. That whole Twhirl/Seesmic thing makes the client I’ve been working on not as unique anymore. Gotta work quickly. #
• @Stammy I can’t decide if its good or bad that I had no trouble reading that. #
• Weird. The CS building is a ghost town. Im like the only person in here. #
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• @strawpoll Yes because why the hell not? #
• @majornelson This whole "codes over Twitter" thing could be an awesome new thing for marketing. #
• @garyvee So do you really want my number, or are you showing someone the power you exert over Twitter? (j/k) #
• @ijustine You could always just pull out that knife you keep on you. http://twitter.com/ijustine/statuses/768241884 #
• Hey Twitter: suggestions for a student/developer who is about to up and quit their retail job and needs to pay bills? You know, just asking #

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• Ok, who is on the same server as me on Dreamhost and is getting Dugg? My site has gone to shit. #
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• @brittanygreene You’re kidding. You are just now starting the speech? Heh, good luck with that. Procrastination’s a bitch, right? #
• Charter internet is down and I’m too lazy to break out the EVDO, so that means goodnite internets. See you in the morning. #
• Oh, yeah, I didn’t go to sleep. ‘Net started working again, so I’ve been posting replies to the Twitter Dev Google Group. Or something. #
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• Alright, off to class for me. I’ll do my Good People Day post/video this evening. I think you’ll like it. #
• How many times am I gonna have to take this class? Its my fault again, though, as usual. #
• @cdevroe Yes, defintely tomorrow’s feature. He rocked that one out. #