Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’

Video Ecards from “All of Us” this Grandparent’s Day

September 8th, 2009

Last year John and Vivian DeVries received quite a few heartfelt calls on Grandparent’s Day. They have 7 grandchildren, and like the other 500 million grandparents’ out there, they like to stay in touch and share laughs with their families.

We believe that John and Vivian would just love to receive a family video ecard with clips and photo’s of their children and grandchildren, but is there enough time for someone to pull it all together? Could you do it on time, and organize it all?

We had this in mind when we developed our free Social Card and online greeting cards engine. No need to do everything from scratch, just search and grab popular community images from Flickr that have been shared by artists under their Creative Commons program. Of course you will add your own pics directly from Facebook, or upload them from your computer. Sprinkle humor by pimping the pictures with bubbles and comments – yes silly comments and insults can make for funny ecards.

You can search and add comical video clips from YouTube, or use their built-in webcam application and create a short and sweet video greeting to embed in your card. Maybe you just want to add a clip that you uploaded from your phone or camcorder. Either way, by integrating with the YouTube application, you can be comfortable that your clips will play properly anywhere on the web.

Now that you have started a Video ecard, you can invite the rest of the family to join in the toast, and set the deadline for them to contribute to “this Saturday night.”

You do not have to organize everyone’s stuff, nor worry about their different picture formatting and email types; the application enables them to add and preview the content they want, when they want. Everyone who collaborates will have their avatar shown on the card, and all the artists receive attribution for their work.

So Sunday morning you can go back, make any last minute revisions or appropriate edits, and send the Family video ecard. The application will automatically mark everything private so your sharing stays in the family, but if you like, you can post it to Facebook and other sites to share the stories.

A video ecard from All of Us – we think that would make John and Vivian’s day, and be cherished for a long, long time.

Using Facebook Connect on MashupArts.com

June 10th, 2009

How to easily login and import your media

Now, on Mashuparts.com you can login using your existing Facebook account.  If you do login with your Facebook account you’ll be able to easily import your Facebook photo albums which you can then edit, embellish and insert into your Mashup Card.

You can also easily login to Mashup Arts with your Gmail, AOL, Windows Live or Yahoo account.

For photos, you can upload anything from your hard drive, bring in your Facebook albums, or search Flickr Creative Commons and Google Images to find other great images to compliment your card.

We’ve also added Youtube search and integration if you wanted to insert your favourite videos into your Mashup Card.

Our beta testers asked us to make it easier to import their photos and videos and to login with existing accounts, so we’ve taken several steps to streamline the whole process.

If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us at any time at feedback@mashuparts.com.