YouTube lets you turn videos into greeting cards
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.
(Credit: CNET Networks)
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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.
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!
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(3 Comments)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!