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.