ShoZu Adds Geotagging for Flickr, YouTube & 5 Other Sites.Supports More Sites & Phones Than Any Other Mobile Image Uploading Service BARCELONA, Spain -- ShoZu Inc. today announced that its Share-It one-click image uploading service now offers location tagging for photos and video clips sent from GPS-enabled phones to Flickr and YouTube as well as Buzznet, Dada.net, moblogUK, Pikeo and Textamerica. ShoZu is the only upload service that provides automatic geotagging for cameraphone uploads to more than one Internet destination. It also supports more GPS handsets than any other provider. With the new geotagging feature, GPS-enabled handsets equipped with the ShoZu application can attach latitude and longitude latitude and longitude Coordinate system by which the position or location of any place on the Earth's surface can be determined and described. Latitude is a measurement of location north or south of the Equator. information to images automatically upon capture. ShoZu will then send this information to any Share-It destination that supports tagging, along with all other tags the user has created manually. In the case of Flickr, uploaded images will also be displayed automatically in their precise location on the user's Flickr map. For users, geotags make it possible to search community photo repositories by geographical location just as they would search by any other tag, whether to explore a vacation destination, find photos of a certain city or area that contributors have failed to tag with location information, or simply hunt for users with common interests. Non-Flickr users who want mapping capabilities can pinpoint the exact location of geotagged photos of interest by pasting the geotags into an application like Google Earth A 3D mapping program from Google that covers the entire globe from satellite images. Requiring a download for Windows, Mac and Linux desktops, a street address can be searched, and the views can be zoomed down to the individual building all the way up to a satellite's view of the globe. . For web communities, ShoZu's geotagging capability offers a site enhancement that can draw new users as well as opening the door to new services. A photo sharing site A Web site used to store and share photos. Users upload their pictures to the site, which are stored on the server and made available to friends and family via personal Web pages. Prints and other accessories can be ordered, which is the motivation for publishing the site. , for example, could load all images submitted from a concert tour on a map so that users can follow the band from city to city. A citizen journalism News and commentary from the public at large. Using wiki sites and blogs, anyone can contribute information about a current event. Also known as "collaborative citizen journalism" (CCJ), "grassroots media" and "personal publishing," the concept behind citizen journalism is that many site could use the feature to instantly identify the location of a photo of a breaking news event in order to quickly dispatch a reporter to the scene. And so on. In addition, handset manufacturers can benefit from ShoZu's new location tagging by providing a location-based service Location-based services (LBS) (or LoCation Services, LCS) are services developed and distributed by wireless carriers and their partners which provide information specific to a location. that leverages their investment in GPS technology, and advertisers using ShoZu's mobile advertising platform will be able to use the function to target messages by user location once ShoZu has implemented necessary privacy protections. "GPS is becoming a standard feature on handsets, primarily because of mobile subscribers who want navigation systems built into their phones. That is paving the way for new location-based services See mobile positioning. like geotagging," said ShoZu CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Mark Bole. "Our broad web community and handset support will lead the way in this area, equip our partners with a strong LBS (Location-Based Services) See mobile positioning. application, and add rich new value to user-generated content The production of content by the general public rather than by paid professionals and experts in the field. Mostly available on the Web via blogs and wikis, user-generated content refers to material such as the daily news, encyclopedias and other references, movie and product reviews as for the massive number of consumers who have turned social networking into the hottest technology trend today." ShoZu's Share-It service enables users 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. Users 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 for a single data fee in cases where carrier charges apply. Uploads automatically resume from the point of failure in the event a dropped connection, eliminating user frustration. The new location tag capability applies to all ShoZu web destinations that support tagging. ShoZu also enables users to upload images to sites without tagging including photo sharing communities Kodak EasyShare Gallery, MSN's Windows Live Spaces A social networking site from Microsoft that enables users to share personal information and photos and write a blog. It also includes an event planner that invites guests. Windows Live Writer is a desktop word processing application that publishes directly to Windows Live Spaces, and Webshots; personal blogging sites Blogger, TypePad and WordPress; citizen-contributed photojournalism sites CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. and Scoopt; and any FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to or email address. ShoZu continues to add new sites on a regular basis. Geotagging is currently available for several new GPS-enabled Symbian S60v3 and Windows Mobile phones. ShoZu currently supports a total of 136 handsets, including Symbian, Java, Microsoft Windows Mobile and BREW devices. The list includes select WiFi-enabled mobile phones such as the Nokia N80 in Europe and the Dash in the U.S.,enabling multimedia files to be routed over users' home, office or WiFi connection (or AirPort connection for Mac users) rather than the cellular network to reduce data transport costs. 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 two-way mobile-to-web messaging and interactivity. For more information, visit www.shozu.com/aboutus. |
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