ShoZu Inc. announced that it has expanded its mobile social media
service to Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster, Twitter and four
additional Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0 communities. With these eight new
integrations, ShoZu now enables mobile users to interact with their
choice of 36 social networks from a single screen on their handsets —
reducing the time, effort and money required to upload images, update
social profiles and check friends’ latest
posts from the phone.
ShoZu’s newly expanded menu of communities
enables mobile users to:
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Upload images to Photobucket, the most popular photo site in the U.S.,
and also have their most recently posted photos sent to the handset
for sharing on the go. -
Upload videos to Dailymotion, the second largest video sharing website
worldwide with 36.2 million unique visitors (Comscore March 2008) -
Upload photos as well as change their social status on Friendster, a
global social network that ranks as the 35th
most highly visited website on the planet. -
Sign up to the latest friend and personal “tweet” timelines and post
replies from Twitter, the hit micro-blogging service.
ShoZu’s free mobile client is currently
pre-installed on newer Motorola and Samsung phones and downloadable to
nearly 340 additional handset models. A complete list of compatible
phones is at www.shozu.com/resources/portal/support/en/support.html.
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<span id="bwanpa4">"</span>People today often belong to more than one
online social media site including social networking sites, personal
blogs and media storage and sharing sites. In addition, different social
media sites are popular in different parts of the world,<span id="bwanpa5">"</span>
said Mark Bole, ShoZu CEO. <span id="bwanpa6">"</span>Our goal is to
provide mobile access to the broadest possible range of communities from
the ShoZu service so that users need only one tool to stay connected on
the go. This latest batch of additional sites to our service gives users
more choice than ever before. Also, be on the look out for another batch
of new destinations added in the upcoming weeks.<span id="bwanpa7">"</span><br /></p><p>
In addition, ShoZu now supports uploads to photo sharing site Twitpic;
photo and video sharing community Cellfish; interactive personal video
"dashboard" Seesmic; and online storage site Ipernity.
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Other ShoZu-supported sites include Facebook; photo/video communities
YouTube, Flickr, Google Picasa, Buzznet, Hyves Kodak EasyShare Gallery,
Webshots, Windows Live Spaces, Moblog.uk, Dada.net, Pikeo, Netlog
Samsung Fun Club, HotSMS and blip.tv; personal blogging sites Google
Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Vox, WordPress and MetaWeblog; online
storage site Box.net and Qipit; citizen-contributed news desks at CNN,
the BBC, ITV and Scoopt; and any email and FTP addresses <span id="bwanpa13">--</span>
all from one ShoZu interface.
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ShoZu<span id="bwanpa14">'</span>s service extends today<span id="bwanpa15">'</span>s
burgeoning social media movement from the Web to the mobile world where
users spend the majority of their time. Users can send photos or videos
to their favorite community with a click, or mass-publish any photo or
video to multiple communities and/or email addresses simultaneously,
without opening a mobile browser, creating for multiple messages, and
paying multiple data upload fees from their wireless carrier.
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Other features unique to ShoZu include the ability to have friends<span id="bwanpa16">'</span>
photostreams, status changes and social network invites sent directly to
the handset in the background without mobile navigation or download
downtime; send photos at blog quality or full resolution; upload video
clips up to 10 minutes in length; and exchange two-way commenting and
messages between the mobile and Web.
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