Yahoo’s online photo sharing site Flickr showed off its upgraded slideshow Wednesday. It’s just like the old slideshow, but this one plays video seamlessly with your still photographs and can be embedded into HTML pages.

The slideshow can be launched from pretty much any page from the self-titled link. Embed or link to the slideshow and video from the Share link. The ability to upload and share video is limited to Flickr Pro users. Embedding the slideshow also requires viewers to have Flash installed, which isn’t much of a roadblock for desktop browsers these days. Mobile browsers don’t benefit, though.

The other embeddable slideshow option available is Picasa Web Albums’. Picasa Web Albums is the web version of Google’s Picasa image editor/manager. Poor Picasa Web Albums. Its embeddable slideshow function was one of its only advantages over Flickr. Now Flickr has it and has included video display too? Flickr’s new slideshow not only blows away Picasa Web Albums (again), it’s embeddable short videos rival YouTube’s as well — that is, if you don’t count Flickr’s 90 second and 150 megabyte restriction.

See Also:

• Flickr Adds Video Sharing for Pro Members
• Flickr Introduces Simpler, Faster Geotagging Tools
• Picasa Debuts Lackluster Slideshow Feature
• Picasa Gains Mapping Features, Goes Mobile