ShoZu Inc. today announced the addition of Windows Live Spaces
(http://spaces.live.com) to the list of websites that can accept image
uploads from customers' mobile phones via ShoZu's Share-It service.
The announcement expands the choice of Web destinations available from
ShoZu to nearly two dozen -- more than any other uploading application
-- and also brings one of the world's most popular social networking
and blogging services into the ShoZu ecosystem.
Effective immediately, mobile users can transmit photos and video
clips from 136 ShoZu-capable camera phones directly to their Windows
Live Spaces blogs with a click when the blog entry is created on and
uploaded from the handset. Images from customers' latest party,
concert, trip or any other blog topic are then automatically embedded
in the appropriate entry.
Windows Live Spaces is available in more than 36 markets in 15
languages, receives more than 6 million photos a day, and attracts
over 120 million bloggers per month. The site has a particularly large
base of mobile customers according to mobile media market research
firm Telephia, ranking as the #2 social networking destination in the
UK and #3 in the U.S. among those who upload content captured on their
mobile devices.
"The explosion in social networking, user-generated content,
blogging and other Web 2.0 services combined with the parallel rise in
camera phones has created a need to send images captured on the
handset to a variety of destinations. ShoZu's strategy has been to
supply an open platform that lets users choose from their favorite
services," said Dean Wood, Senior Vice President, Commercial, for
ShoZu. "The addition of Windows Live Spaces to our menu of Share-It
upload options gives consumers another top choice and again
demonstrates the value of our open gateway in rapidly integrating new
destinations."
ShoZu's Share-It service enables customers to upload photos and
video clips captured on their camera phones with fewer clicks, at
higher resolution and to more Web destinations than any other method.
Customers also have the unique ability to add titles or tags after
uploading, exchange comments between Web and phone, and upload any
image to multiple destinations without paying multiple data fees.
Customers can make phone calls or take more photos while an image is
transferring, and transfers automatically resume from the point of
failure in the event of a dropped connection rather than forcing users
to start over.
In addition to Windows Live Spaces, current destination options
include online communities such as YouTube, Buzznet, Dada.net, Flickr,
Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Moblog.uk, Pikeo, Textamerica and Webshots;
personal blogging sites Blogger, TypePad and WordPress;
citizen-contributed photojournalism sites such as CNN, the BBC and
Scoopt; and any FTP or email address. All destinations are supported
with a single application installed on the handset.
ShoZu currently supports 136 Symbian, Java, Microsoft Windows
Mobile-based and BREW devices available from multiple manufacturers.
The service can also be used with select WiFi-enabled mobile phones
such as the Nokia N80 in Europe and Dash in the U.S., enabling
multimedia files to be routed over users' home, office or WiFi
connection (or AirPort connection for Mac users) rather than the
cellular network to reduce data transport costs.
The ShoZu client software can be downloaded to the handset at no
charge from www.shozu.com and will soon be pre-installed on select
devices. The same software also powers ShoZu's ZuCast media delivery
service, enabling zero-click delivery of select videos, photos, music,
games, news and other content directly to the mobile phone at the
user's request.
About ShoZu
ShoZu is a mobile media service that enables consumer and media
companies to interact with customers on their mobile phones through
fast, easy exchange of multimedia content and web-based services. The
company's patented technology allows consumers to download and upload
photos, videos, music, text and other digital content to and from the
handset without the need to open a mobile browser, wait for pages to
load, interrupt phone calls, start over in the event of a dropped
connection, or sync to a PC. Services include innovative ZuCasts that
deliver content to the handset automatically, one-click uploading of
camera phone images and video clips to community websites and other
destinations, and two-way mobile-to-web messaging and interactivity.
For more information, visit www.shozu.com/aboutus.
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