 Users Can Shoot, Click & Share Directly from Camera Phones - Service Now
Supports Dozens of Web Partners & Handsets
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, August 15, 2006 --- ShoZu Inc. announced today that users
of its free one-click image uploading service can now transmit video clips directly
from supported camera phones to their accounts on YouTube, the Internet video-sharing
site that gets a staggering 80 million video views a day. ShoZu's support for
YouTube eliminates the need to transfer the files to a PC or struggle with wireless
email or MMS messaging. It also adds to the dozens of web destinations to which
ShoZu users can upload photos and videos captured on their handsets, from snapshots
of family or friends to breaking news, concert footage and oddities of all kinds.
With ShoZu's image sharing service, consumers can "shoot and send" camera phone
photos and video clips on the spot without a PC and without the complex commands,
loss of image quality, or interruption of other activities associated with other
uploading methods. The service allows users to make phone calls or take more photos
while an image is transferring, and it automatically resumes from the point of
failure in the event of a dropped connection rather than forcing users to start
over. Descriptions and tags can be added before or after uploading, and only one
upload is required even if the file is sent to multiple destinations.
These and other capabilities make ShoZu the fastest, easiest and most cost-effective
method of sharing images from handsets. The service offers the additional advantage
of providing a wide choice of destinations without requiring installation of multiple
applications on the phone.
Destination sites currently supported by ShoZu include photo and video sharing
communities such as Buzznet, Flickr, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Textamerica and
Webshots; personal blog sites such as Blogger, Typepad and Wordpress; any MetaWeblog-enabled
blog; and citizen-contributed photo galleries like CNN, the BBC and Scoopt. In
addition, images can be sent to any FTP site or to any email address for easy
image sharing with family and friends.
ShoZu is scheduled to add more than three dozen additional destinations over
the next six months, ranging from extra photo communities and blogs to social
networking, photo hosting, photo printing and document/whiteboard scanning sites.
The company also recently announced that Sony Ericsson is now making the ShoZu
application available directly from its online Fun & Downloads portal in 65
countries, with the option to download the ShoZu software either from a PC or
from the handset itself. ShoZu is currently negotiating similar agreements with
other handset manufacturers.
"Support for YouTube has been a high priority because it is such a major player
in the Web 2.0 space, but it is just one of dozens of destination options available
to camera phone owners who use our service," said ShoZu CEO Mark Bole. "Our base
of web and handset partners already outstrips that of any other uploader application,
and it is expanding rapidly because of the clear ease-of-use and technical advantages
that we provide. ShoZu is well on its way to becoming a fixture of mobile life,
with more consumers 'ShoZu-ing' their images every day."
About ShoZu
ShoZu specializes in interactive media solutions that enable cellphone users
to get more out of the mobile experience, providing fast and easy handset access
to multimedia web content ranging from photo portals to blogs, videocasts and
podcasts. Services include 'ZuCasts' delivered directly to handsets on a subscription
basis, one-click uploading of camera phone images and video clips, and two-way
message exchange with community websites. The company's patented technology transfers
any kind of data effortlessly and inexpensively between a mobile phone and the
Internet without the need to open a mobile phone browser, wait for pages to load,
interrupt phone calls, start over in the event of a dropped connection, or sync
to a PC. Visit http://www.shozu.com
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