First there were blogs, podcasts and videocasts. Now come ZuCasts – a free digital media delivery service for mobile phones from ShoZu, a combination of an online service and a mobile application which allow you to easily upload photos and videos from your phone to your photo-sharing Web site – to create and share your ZuCasts.
The service is now available in beta with a choice of over 20 ZuCasts ranging from Webshots’ best daily photos to videoblog coverage of the 2006 Vans Warped Tour, a 50-city summer music festival for which Warner Bros Records has selected ShoZu as their mobile media partner. New subscription options will be added regularly, with a growing selection of news, music, humor, images and other digital nuggets designed to provide a constant stream of fresh on-the-go information and entertainment.
ShoZu’s data replication technology enables files to be downloaded invisibly in the background 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. Just click on the ShoZu icon on your handset, and the latest ZuCasts will be waiting.
The free-to-download ShoZu application offers one-click sharing of images captured on camera phones enabling users to send images to a wide range of online image sharing, social networking, blog and citizen-contributed photojournalism sites. Users can also exchange comments about those images from their phones without waiting to get to their PCs.
The ZuCast service will initially be available on selected Nokia, Samsung and Panasonic handsets. ShoZu’s image-sharing services are currently available on 48 Symbian, Windows Mobile and Java handsets.
You can get more information on the ShoZu’s website, where you can also download the free application and start ZuCasting. 🙂