Google’s Christmas Card Innovation

I was reading tweets the other day (Follow me on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/coolwebdev) on twitter. And I came across Sampad Swain’s post on the Innovative way of Christmas greetings by using Google Apps.

You need to provide the name and email address of your friends you want to send the greetings to. Here is a screen shot of the video, a part of which is created dynamically based on the info that you provide. That info is embedded on certain frames of the video using the code which is fantastic.

The Christmas card is hosted at a non-Google URL on App Engine, one of Google’s developer products which lets any developer host their application on Google’s infrastructure for free. The one thing that is not hosted on App Engine is the SWF file of the video, which sits on Google servers because App Engine is still in beta and can’t yet handle big files.

I added - [Where is MK?] and you can view the screen shot of video with my name on the newspaper. This is an awesome Christmas greeting. I would highly encourage you to use this service to send Christmas greetings to your friends and family and amaze them with your tech side :)

Here is the link to view the video and after the video finishes you will be taken to the page to customize the video and send it to your friends with your name in the video, isn’t that amazing -

http://www.channel6tvnews.com/story/agc2dHZuZXdzcgwLEgRjYXJkGNnJBww

The people in front of the camera are mostly Google staff. Mrs Santa is called Rebecca Michael, she is an associate agency relationship manager in the Google UK sales team, but as a child she played Janine Butchers in Eastenders.

The exceptions are Santa - he’s the real Selfridges Santa, this was filmed the first part in their grotto, and the reporter - she is a friend of the video producer, they do red carpet stuff together, so she agreed to take part as a favor.

Enjoy the greetings guys, and wish you a MERRY XMAS.

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