ShoZu Expands Mobile Video/Photo Uploading to Vox & LiveJournal, Adding Major Blogging Destinations to Web Partner Network.Enables Handset-to-Blog Image Transfer Plus Two-Way Blog Comments SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- ShoZu Inc. today announced the extension of its Share-It mobile video and photo uploading service to Vox (www.vox.com) and LiveJournal (www.livejournal.com), popular personal blogging services that are part of the Six Apart blogging family. ShoZu now supports more than two dozen online communities and other Web destinations, giving consumers far more options for handset-to-Web content transfer than any other uploading application. LiveJournal is one of the largest online communities in the world, with more than 12 million personal journals created since the site was launched in 1999. Vox is a new service with rich blogging, social networking See social networking site. social networking - social network , and privilege-setting features designed to enable users to share their experiences with friends and family. Parent company Six Apart also hosts TypePad, another ShoZu upload option that is one of the largest paid blogging services in the world. With these latest additions to the ShoZu ecosystem, users with ShoZu-enabled mobile phones can transmit images and videos taken with their camera phones directly to their Vox or LiveJournal blogs with one click. Both photos and video clips can be uploaded at full resolution at file sizes up to 4MB, offering a distinct advantage over lower-resolution Multimedia Messaging Service See MMS. (MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) An enhanced transmission service that enables graphics, video clips and sound files to be transmitted via cellphones. Developed as part of the 3GPP project, MMS phones are generally backward compatible with SMS and EMS. ) image transfers that limit files to just 500K. Titles, tags and/or text can be attached during the initial upload or added at any later date with automatic attachment to the appropriate blog entry. In addition, both Vox and LiveJournal users Some users of LiveJournal, or the journals themselves have become famous throughout the years for their especially interesting content, including political commentary and anecdotal advice on subjects ranging from household care to aquariums, or because they belong to otherwise will soon be able to use ShoZu's two-way messaging service to interact with their readers. Reader comments will be automatically forwarded to the phone, and user replies sent from the handset will be automatically posted back to the appropriate blog online. This marks the first time that ShoZu has enabled its two-way messaging capabilities on a blogging destination. "Our TypePad service has been integrated with ShoZu for more than a year, and our users have appreciated how easy mobile blogging has become," said Michael Sippey, VP of Product, Professional Division of Six Apart. "Equipping our Vox and LiveJournal bloggers with the same easy mobile upload capabilities will allow them to post an entry whenever the spirit or the image moves them, even if they are on the road." "One of the strengths of the ShoZu service is that we can offer consumers a wide range of upload choices with a single application installed on the handset. We therefore have established an impressive roadmap of partner integrations to continue broadening that choice," said Bob Morgan Robert Morgan (born June 28, 1930 in Freeport, Pennsylvania) was an American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football for the University of Maryland. , ShoZu Vice President, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "Vox and LiveJournal are an important part of that campaign, particularly for the growing community of people who express themselves through personal blogs." In addition to the three Six Apart blogging properties, ShoZu currently supports online communities such as YouTube, Flickr, Google Picasa, Buzznet, Kodak EasyShare Kodak EasyShare is a sub brand of Eastman Kodak Company products identifying a consumer photography system of digital cameras, snapshot printers, printer docks, accessories, camera docks, software, and online print services. EasyShare was first introduced in 2001. Gallery, Webshots, Moblog.uk, Dada.net and Pikeo; personal blogging sites Google Blogger, 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, , Textamerica and WordPress; citizen-contributed photojournalism sites such as 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 See Internet address. . 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. Users also have the unique ability to add titles or tags after uploading, exchange comments between Web and phone, upload any image to multiple destinations without paying multiple data fees, and automatically add location tags for sites that support geotagging. Consumers 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. ShoZu currently supports 166 Symbian, Java, Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Mobile-based and BREW devices available from multiple manufacturers. The service can also be used with select WiFi-enabled mobile phones such as the Nokia N80 in Europe and 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. The ShoZu client software can be downloaded to supported handsets at no charge from www.shozu.com and will soon be pre-installed on select devices. The same software also powers ShoZu's ZuCast media delivery service, enabling zero-click delivery of select videos, photos, music, games, news and other content directly to the mobile phone at the user's request. 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 A mobile browser (earlier referred to as a microbrowser or minibrowser) is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA. Mobile browsers are optimised so as to display Web content most effectively for small screens on portable , 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, visit www.shozu.com/aboutus. About Six Apart Six Apart Ltd. provides award-winning blogging software and services that change the way millions of individuals, organizations, and corporations connect and communicate around the world every day. Founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott, Six Apart has grown into a global company with its headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and offices in Europe and Japan. The company continues to lead in the blogging and social media industry with the Movable Type movable type n. Printing Type in which each character is cast on a separate piece of metal. publishing platform; the TypePad hosted blogging service <http://www.typepad.com/>; LiveJournal <http://www.livejournal.com>, an online community organized around personal journals; and Vox <http://www.vox.com/>, a free blogging service for friends and families. For more information visit the Six Apart corporate web site at http://www.sixapart.com/. |
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