CNet's popular web photo-sharing site Webshots has taken the obvious next step of launching its own video sharing feature. Aficionados of YouTube and other video sharing sites won't find much here they haven't seen before. The features are pretty standard. Upload your videos, embed them in your blog or web site, leave comments. You get the idea. The site boasts larger and higher-quality videos than most sites, but also has limits other sites don't. If you're a non-paying member you're limited to five-minute videos and up to 100 videos uploaded, plus 10 more for every month you're a member. If you're a paying premium member that goes up to 10 minutes, 250 videos, plus 25 for each month of membership.
While Webshots' new video features aren't bad by any means, if it's their aim to differentiate their service from the ever-growing crowd, they need to drop the arbitrary limitations. Existing Webshots users and people who want their videos and photos in one place (and who aren't already using Photobucket) will probably take advantage of the new video features, it's going to be a hard sell to people who are already happy with YouTube or its dozens of cousins.
You can check out Webshots' embedded player after the jump (ooh, elephants!), or see a few promo videos on Webshots.
[Via TechCrunch via Techmeme]
