ShoZu Extends Media Service to Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces, Enabling Handset-to-Blog Uploads of Photos & Video Clips.Top Brand Added to ShoZu's Growing Network of Web Partners BARCELONA, Spain -- ShoZu Inc. today announced the addition of 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, (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 See social networking site. social networking - social network 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 Inserted into. See embedded system. 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 according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. 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 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 , 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 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, Moblog.uk, Pikeo, Textamerica and Webshots; personal blogging sites Blogger, TypePad 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. . All destinations are supported with a single application installed on the handset. ShoZu currently supports 136 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 the handset 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 two-way mobile-to-web messaging and interactivity. For more information, visit www.shozu.com/aboutus. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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