The service will only take 90 seconds of video at up to 150mb for starters, which is fine. There are other options for longer video, and as Arrington wrote, “The short clips are a perfect compliment to event photos….”

Written at 3:45 p.m.: Or are they? I just wasted a good 15 minutes trying to figure it out after reading blog posts on both CNET’s WebWare and TechCrunch “announcing” the launch of Flickr Video hosting (complete with samples). But as far as anything official from Yahoo, only the rumor itself has been confirmed as rumor, albeit in a Flickr video — irreverent teaser from Stewart Butterfield and Heather Champ (with puppets) on the Flickr blog:

Hopefully this will be live later today (as rumored)!

Originally posted at LAist.

And hopefully much will be released at their event next week at SXSWi. Until then, however, this is about all you can do (that and hook it up to your dopplr account.

Thx to Scott Beale for the FE invite!

Let’s test it out right here, with a cut from the last set of Wilco’s historic 5-night run at the Riviera in Chicago this month.

Wilco – Muzzle of Bees w/ Andrew Bird

Check out the rest of the show at I am Fuel.

I had a tricky time getting the htrack microformat to work and eventually gave up (on second thought I think this was due to some issues with the Firefox 3 Beta I was testing it on). However, I now see that there is a WordPress Plugin that might make it even easier.

Just as it was becoming clear this week that Yahoo! Co-Founder Jerry Yang’s first “100 days” as CEO isn’t setting up to be all that, a stream of new toys, deals, and partnerships have been announced. MapMixer is a product of Yahoo! Hack Day, according to TechCrunch and Reuters, and as you can see above, it enables you to overlay graphics on Yahoo! Maps (above is the USC campus, zoom out for full effect). Of course, not everything scales so nicely (see the Chicago ‘L’ map).

Yahoo is seeking more applied ingenuity and is pronouncing it’s “openness.” (NOTE: Jeremy Zawodny posted a much-better-written rebuttal/addendum to the BizWeek article on his blog.)

Is this real or a back-against-the-wall reaction to the apparent leak of a Google in-house video purporting a confluence of Google apps in a streamlined Facebook platform sort-of-way? Was Page and Brin’s $1.3 million landing at NASA’s Moffett Field near the Google HQ merely a decoy to overshadow speculation on the video? Is it true that there’s a bubble keeping the fog and cold bay air out of Silicon Valley?

The real big deal for Yahoo! this week was the announcement of a hefty deal to serve ads for Bebo, one of the most popular social networking sites in the UK (and a oft-rumored acquisition interest of Yahoo).

Also, tonight marks the launch of a partnership with Woot.com in which one item per night is featured on Yahoo! Shopping for purchase at sellout.woot.com.

Woot! will continue offering nightly deals. Woot, based somewhere near Dallas, has expanded in recent months to offer a weekly wine special and a daily shirt. It seems the Sellout idea could be a bit disconcerting for traditional Yahoo shoppers; the link directs you to a Woot site and requires a Woot — not a Yahoo — login. The only hint of a Yahoo presence on the purchase page is the purple background. While Woot clearly benefits from this, it’s unclear exactly how Yahoo profits — aside from some form of revenue sharing — although the client is taken off of Yahoo property with no intuitive way to return.

Amid all this action, good news on Yahoo! Sports besting, ESPN for unique visitors in August, evidence of the nascent omg! microsite gaining audience share on TMZ and People, and the debut of Halo Films coming this Friday. But also — the bad and questionable news. Premature invites for Yahoo Mash (nee Mosh), whispers of Yahoo music’s imminent demise, and reports that the presidential mashup project has gone soft. All the while, the stock price is flirting with the 52-week low.

Could turn out to be a pretty exciting run up to day 100 for CEO Yang after all.

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MORE COVERAGE: Yahoo! VP Bradley Horowitz pumping the Hack concept in blog and in an interview with Read/Write Web.

In other news, light blogging continues as I aggressively pursue the dream. New opportunities abound now that I’ve returned to Los Angeles. In lieu of blogging, I’m having fun keeping up with my peeps via twitter and Facebook. Join me.

BONUS!

(OK, so I guess I did have one photo in there — from maybe 10 years ago in Costa Rica).

Yahoo announced the acquisition of RightMedia — it had already been a “strategic 20 percent investment” — a wise, counterplay to Google’s recent $3.1B acquisition of DoubleClick. Doesn’t seem to be a hasty reactionary move as Right Media’s Exchange system could be a boon to Yahoo’s publisher network and it’s new Adwords-like search advertising platform code-named Panama. Yahoo CEO Terry Semel’s optimistic blog post is here. New York Times gets a jump on the story here. A conference call will take place Monday morning and surely the industry-watchers will have more deets and analysis.

More on the imitation job at PCWorld, DownloadSquad, TechCrunch.