Yahoo upgrades mobile Flickr with iPhone-optimized video

Yahoo is responding to growing mobile demand, and users that are uploading pictures and video more frequently from their mobile phones, with a renewed push for their mobile Flickr website. The upgraded mobile Flickr touts an mobile-friendly format and even supports video streaming through a smartphone’s mobile web browser. Most notably, the upgraded mobile Flickr now supports video-viewing on the iPhone’s Safari browser.

The mobile version of Flickr can be found at m.flickr.com and sports a mobile-optimized menu layout that gives quick access to Flickr’s social tools that keep you up to date on your friends’ recent activity, the “Interestingness” photo set, and even allows you to mark favorite pics and add contacts.

Flickr’s mobile website has been available in beta form to iPhone users since its launch in October. Citing “an explosion of mobile devices uploading to and browsing Flickr,” the Yahoo-owned company has rolled out upgrades to its mobile website that will allow other mobile browsers, like Mobile Firefox and Opera Mobile, to access the mobilized content. iPhone and iPod Touch users, however, get access to streaming video content.

Flickr uses a video transcoder platform developed by Yahoo that converts any uploaded video to the H.264 format. Clicking on a Flickr video, which are limited to 90-second clips, launches the iPhone’s QuickTime movie player. Videos are viewable in both landscape and portrait orientation.

Point your mobile browser to m.flickr.com to get in on the mobile Flickr goodness. And, if you have an iPhone, you can entertain yourself with short video clips, too!

[Via: AppleInsider]