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NYTimes.com will make its first stab at hosting user-generated video by carrying submissions from couples whose announcements are featured in the wedding pages of the newspaper.

The Times is setting strict guidelines for its first non-professional videos. To be considered for posting to the site, couples have to have been selected for an announcement in the paper's hallowed weddings pages.

To make it onto the site, the How We Met videos have to focus on how the couples came together, why they decided to tie the knot, adhere to certain technical specifications, be no longer than three minutes and, so the Times states, be 'appropriate for a general audience'.

"New York Times readers are a pretty creative lot, and we can't wait to see the varied ways they'll choose to tell their stories in video," said Vivian Schiller, senior vice president and general manager, NYTimes.com.

The NYT site has also added interactive destination maps to its recently revamped travel site .

The street-level Google powered maps , which will be updated weekly with locations mentioned in NYT travel editorial, will feature hotel lists, restaurants and attractions for more than 400 destinations around the world.

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