Flickr video uploads! (Maximum 90 second-clips, for now.)

Good move for Flickr—and parent Yahoo—towards taking a niche that YouTube hasn’t captured.

YouTube has a lot of video. But it isn’t as a place for serious amateur moviemakers to share their work. But Flickr, a community with many serious amateur photographers, is in a good position to grab a parallel position in the amateur director community.

I’m optimistic.