Keeping memories Yaika! style

I think photo albums are a thing of the past. Video is taking over the world with great speed. You'll notice this trend within recording all kinds of family events and memories in general.

Most of us have a whole separate cupboard specifically for storing all those photo albums. Even I have one :) But more and more people record their lives in video format (this already began in the VHS era). I would like to suggest the idea of video albums. That doesn't mean you'll have to designate another cupboard for stacks and stacks of DVDs and cassettes, but instead you upload them to the Internet. For example, make a separate channel for family events here on Yaika! and start uploading your home-videos.

But what to do with all of those photos collecting dust in the cupboards? Well, you can lend a scanner from a friend or visit your local office supply store, most of them have a service for digitalizing your data. This way you can have all your albums in a digital format, too. There's a whole bunch of websites for maintaining photos and some even let you edit them in some way or another. Then there's the possibility of making a slide-show out of the photos and saving them in video format, thus allowing you to upload them to your family channel on Yaika! Unlike many other video hosting sites, Yaika! allows you to make the channel available to only friends and family.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a thousand pictures.