Lights, camera, Gmail
Posted by Bill Kee, Associate Product
Marketing Manager
Last month, we
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id="d4i0" >invited you to join the Gmail
collaborative video, pull out your video cameras and help us
imagine how an email message travels around the world. Two
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>Rubik's
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>cubes, a few jaunts
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>in a bottle, beautiful
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>sand animation, and one
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>dog's trip to the Southernmost point
of the continental US later, we'd received more than
href="http://www.youtube.com/video_response_view_all?v=VfDW7qAdFGk"
id="c41." >1,100 fantastic
clips from Gmail fans from more than 65
countries. It was impossible to fit all of the great submissions
into one cut, but after hours of fun watching
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>jugglers,
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>firemen,
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>camel-riders, and original
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>animation, we edited highlights together into
this video and used the
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>Google Maps API to put together a map
showing where many of the clips came from (you can also see these
at
>http://mail.google.com/mvideo):
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height="353" width="425" />
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Map
A big thank you to everyone who participated — your
creativity is astounding!
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