Leverages Webshots' Large Global Membership to Celebrate World's Largest Public Festival

SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 29 06 - ShoZu Inc. and Webshots, a leading online photo sharing site and property of CNET Networks, today announced a joint promotion encouraging consumers to send images from Oktoberfest celebrations worldwide to the Webshots site using mobile phones equipped with ShoZu's one-click image uploading application. ShoZu's on-the-spot uploading capabilities are expected to maximize the number of photos in Webshots' special"Oktoberfun "collection by allowing images to be transmitted directly from the events.

The promotion matches the global nature of Oktoberfest with the global reach of both companies.Many of Webshots' members reside outside North America, and a large number of handsets that support ShoZu's application are very widely used in Europe by mainstream consumers.

" Oktoberfest is the largest public festival in the world, and it's a highly visual celebration that offers everything from decorated kegs and elaborate beer tents and to the unique local color of events in different cities and countries, " said Martin Green, Senior Vice President of Community for Webshots parent company CNET Networks. " By teaming with ShoZu to gather images from around the world, we will be able to paint a global portrait of the festivities, and our members will have a ringside seat at events that are thousands of miles away."

"People who attend events like Oktoberfest may not want to carry a camera, but they will almost certainly have their mobile phones with them.  With ShoZu, they can 'shoot and send' effortlessly,  " said Jen Grenz, Global Partner Marketing Director for ShoZu." This project with Webshots is an ideal way to showcase our capabilities, and an excellent strategy for Webshots to build a critical mass of Oktoberfest photos as well as encourage members to get into the habit of using their phones to share images."

ShoZu's image uploading service allows consumers to share images from their camera phones more quickly, easily, at a higher resolution and with more Web destinations than any alternative method. It eliminates the need to transfer the files to a PC, deal with complex commands and loss of image quality, or suspend phone calls or photo taking while an image is transferring. 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. 

Webshots is accepting photos for the Oktoberfun promotion through October.  Images can be sent with ShoZu’s application or by web upload to www.webshots.com.  Users should create a new album and tag it “oktoberfun.”  All photos submitted will be assembled into a collection by Webshots editors for easy viewing.  

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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 www.shozu.com

About Webshots

Webshots (www.webshots.com) is one of the internet's largest photo and video sharing community where users connect over shared interests spanning 10 channels and thousands of sub-categories. Webshots enables "social theatre" by providing stages for users to present content that ranges in scope from personal events to events of worldwide significance with message boards, "favorite user" capabilities, comment features and more. AllYouCanUpload.com provides free unlimited photo hosting on the proven Webshots backbone without the need to register.  Webshots is a property of CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNET) (www.cnetnetworks.com), a global media company with other leading Web brands including CNET, GameSpot, TV.com, MP3.com, BNET and ZDNet.