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ShoZu Brings 'Live' Mobile Images to Facebook with Easy Uploading from Handsets
Written by Shozu
Friday, 20 July 2007
Popular Social Utility Site Added to ShoZu's Menu of Web Destinations;
Separate Flickr-to-Facebook Application Automatically Uploads Latest
Flickr Photo
SAN FRANCISCO-- ShoZu today announced the addition of Facebook, the popular social
utility website, to its rapidly expanding list of destination options for one-click
upload of photos and video clips captured on camera phones. Facebook community
members equipped with ShoZu-enabled handsets can now transfer images and related
descriptions to their Facebook profiles directly from their phones with the press
of a button, eliminating complex navigation sequences or the delay associated
with waiting to sync photos to a PC.
In addition, ShoZu has created a Facebook application called “Photo Status” that
automatically posts the latest photo sent to a user’s Flickr account via ShoZu
to that same user’s Facebook profile, enabling community members to visually track
friends’ activities on a near-real-time basis. This new tool for “live” photo
sharing leverages Facebook’s strategy to expand from its original identity as
an online community for college students to become a one-stop social networking
platform supporting third-party geographic, work-related and educational social
applications. The site currently has more than 24 million active users, less than
half of whom are now in college, and is among the top 20 most-visited online destinations
in the world.
Facebook is the latest of more than two dozen Web destination options available
with ShoZu’s one-click Share-It image uploading service, giving users a broader
choice than any competitive upload technology. The ShoZu client can be downloaded
free of charge to more than 200 handset models from www.shozu.com. Facebook users
can add the Photo Status application at http://apps.facebook.com/photostatus.
Other Share-It destination options include photo/video sharing sites YouTube,
Flickr, Google Picasa, Buzznet, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Webshots, Moblog.uk,
Dada.net and Pikeo; personal blogging sites Google Blogger, LiveJournal, Windows
Live Spaces, Textamerica, TypePad, Vox and WordPress; citizen-contributed photojournalism
sites CNN, the BBC and Scoopt; and any FTP or email address for one-click image
upload from ShoZu-enabled camera phones.
“Facebook recently acknowledged the growing importance of mobile uploads to their
site by building mobile support into their new Video application. They are also
the biggest photo-sharing site on the Web, with more than 6 million photos uploaded
every day,” said ShoZu CEO Mark Bole. “By offering Facebook as a destination option
for our one-click image upload service, we are ensuring that Facebook members
have a fast, easy and low-cost method of updating their Facebook photos and videos
wherever they are — whether at a concert, a party, backpacking in Europe or simply
going about their daily lives.”
ShoZu’s proprietary Share-It technology enables images to be uploaded quietly
and reliably in the background at full resolution, leaving users free to make
phone calls or take more photos during the image transfer process. Users can add
descriptions and tags to individual images from the phone before or after uploading,
exchange two-way messages between mobile and Web for sites that support that function,
and automatically attach location tags when GPS-enabled handsets are used. The
Share-It service is now used in 79 countries.
ShoZu's services also include ZuCasts consisting of rich media "channels" delivered
by free or paid subscription with no clicks, and mobile advertising that can be
embedded in ZuCast-based videos, photos, music, wallpaper, ringtones, news feeds
and other content by user request for discreet and precisely targeted ad delivery.
All services utilize a single client installed on the mobile phone.
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 a mobile advertising
platform that provides non-intrusive and highly targeted ad delivery. For more
information, please visit www.shozu.com
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