Animoto - Mashup service for photographers

While reading up on Cloud Computing I stumbled upon Animoto as a success story of a scalable architecture.

So what is Animoto? Animoto is ,in lucid terms, Windows Movie Maker on the web. It can take photos and convert them into movie and what more it can even add a background soundtrack. It is a classic example of a mashup as it can draw photos from various image sharing websites or your hard disk and audio from their own collection or from your hard disk and create a movie file out of it.

There is even a special feature for photographers called Animoto for Photographers which promises to create breathtaking videos from images. This is not a free service though :(

Registration is free and you are allowed to create short videos of 30 seconds. I gave the basic version a shot and created this short video in just a few minutes. I was sure impressed with the service. I am sure you will be too.