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December 12, 2008 1:56 PM PST

YouTube lets you turn videos into greeting cards

by Josh Lowensohn

For the second year, YouTube on Friday unveiled a holiday feature that lets users create hosted video cards to send to friends and family. Users can select this option from any YouTube video, or from a special page that houses selected community videos and links to a user's own clips.

There's also an option to make a more personalized greeting straight from a connected Webcam. For now, only one video can be attached to a given greeting card.

When users are finished picking a video for use in a greeting card, they can choose from a handful of themes that house the video player, then add up to 230 characters of text and send the complete card to up to 25 e-mail recipients.

According to YouTube's company blog, more than a million of these greetings were sent out last year, before the feature disappeared in January.

Turn any YouTube video into a greeting card for the holidays.

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by timfou December 12, 2008 9:57 PM PST
A better alternative is Sharenik.com which allows you to share up to 15 photos and videos with up to 500 friends. You can also see who views your card and gather user comments.

Check out Sharenik?s homepage for a cute sample. <b>Go green this holiday!</b> Don't mail paper cards around the world, use your digital photos and videos to create a video holiday card at Sharenik.com.
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by james2263 February 4, 2009 6:59 PM PST
A very easy way to send your videos in a customized ecard is to use jalapenyo.com It is very easy to do, and the ecards are great!

Create your own e-card with your own video. You can say what you want, and they have e-cards for every occasion. Check them out!
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by james2263 February 4, 2009 7:00 PM PST
A very easy way to send your videos in a customized ecard is to use jalapenyo.com It is very easy to do, and the ecards are great!

Create your own e-card with your own video. You can say what you want, and they have e-cards for every occasion. Check them out!
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