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ShoZu, a mobile multimedia service that allows you to download and upload content to your mobile phone, has been very busy lately. Beside the “Z8 deal“, ShoZu also announced:
1. An agreement with Azteca Interactive, the mobile and interactive arm of TV Azteca, to distribute TV Azteca content to mobile phone users in the Mexican and Latin American market through ShoZu’s ZuCast media delivery service. The service is set to go live in May 2007.
2. An agreement with Atlantic Records that will allow select bands, equipped with ShoZu-enabled camera phones, to upload the photos and video clips in near-real time for distribution to artist and fan sites, MySpace and other popular online destinations.
3. Support for geotagging. ShoZu’s 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. At the moment, ShoZu is the only upload service that provides automatic geotagging for cameraphone uploads to more than one Internet destination.
4. A distribution agreement with Amp’d Mobile, America’s leading mobile entertainment company targeted at youth and young professionals. The Share-It service will expand Amp’d Mobile’s social networking feature set by enabling subscribers to easily transmit photos and video clips to nearly two dozen media sharing, blogging and community sites using a single ShoZu application on the handset.
5. ShoZu also extended its media service to Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces, enabling direct handset-to-blog uploads of photos and video clips.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
