Videos will appear in the users' photostreams alongside their still photos, and users will be able to tag them, organize them into sets and share them with all of the same privacy and licensing options available for still photos. There will also be an embedable player so users can place publicly-shared videos, YouTube-style, on blogs.

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A minute and a half is also about the length of video one would typically capture with a cheap point-and-shoot camera or a camera phone. That's really the point of the limitations -- to highlight those sorts of short, emotional moments shot on the fly while on vacation, on a stroll or on the morning commute.