Posts Tagged ‘Video Ecard’

Sexy Halloween Video Ecards for the Wild Wanton Web

October 15th, 2009

The other day I discovered that you can send video ecards privately to friends with Mashup Arts!

Now I can share both invites and costume ideas, inspired by the “hot witch hat” from a Flickr search. Check out this Mashup Card with sexy pictures and a YouTube video:

Since then, my friends have been sharing our favorite costume and makeup ideas for halloween by adding our photos and video’s to the same ecard. Yes, some of our costume ideas are a little risque, but that’s not a problem if I set my card to private and share it only with my friends.

The collaborative module enables a web based “shared-workspace” … along the lines of Google’s Wave application. With Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and CCMixter music modules, the social cards can take on a life of their own.

You can use and re-use any of the Mashup Arts’ community cards, or simply create new cards with your own content. It is the perfect web app to mark a wild wanton occasion like Halloween.

A Video Ecard that Howls at the Harvest Moon

October 3rd, 2009

The Thanksgiving harvest spirit is universal, and we are kicking off the season with the Moon Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival this weekend. It is celebrated by Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese on October 3rd which is a date that parallels the autumn and spring equinoxes, when the moon is stuffed full and beaming round. Tom Waits would say it “poked a hole in the night sky.”
The Canadian Thanksgiving is around the corner, October 12th while the American Thanksgiving is November 26th. Both are marked by Football rivalries and family turkey dinners. I am looking forward to the traditional Detroit and Green Bay match up.

The celebrations have long marked the end of the harvest season. In some countries like Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, it is also referred to as the Lantern Festival, and the people decorate and display a broad range of lanterns, including my favorite, sky lanterns.

While it is a time for families to come together, it is also a time to reach out to family and friends. There maybe someone you had been planning to call for some time. Here is a good excuse to wish them well, and perhaps look up at the same moon from miles and miles away. If you wish to send along something special, the free video and social ecards at MashupArts.com are a clever way to craft a family card or a social card for all your Facebook friends and family. You can send them individually, or you can invite others to collaborate and add in their own pictures and video to the mix, creating a Google Wave like expression.

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.