Top Brand Added to ShoZu’s Growing Network of Web Partners
3GSM World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 12 Feb 07 - 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.
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