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ShoZu Expands Mobile Social Media Services for Facebook, Delivering Friends' Photos, Status Updates & Events to Handset
SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)-- ShoZu Inc., today announced an expansion of the mobile social media services it offers for Facebook, one of 37 online communities to which it currently connects mobile users through a single screen on the handset. ShoZu can now deliver new Facebook posts directly to the user's mobile device as well as allow users to change their Facebook status from the ShoZu interface, enhancing the one-click phone-to-Web image uploads it already offers for Facebook and other destination sites.
The upgrades advance ShoZu's efforts to enable users to keep up with Facebook and other online social communities from a single utility on the mobile phone. With the enhanced Facebook services, ShoZu users can now:
-- Have friends' newest Facebook photos sent to the mobile as soon as they are posted, with the option to receive a collective feed of the latest photos from all friends and/or individual feeds from specific friends on the ShoZu screen.
-- Request automatic delivery of friends' Facebook status updates to the handset for retrieval from the ShoZu interface, making it easy to keep up with friends' activities while on the go.
-- Have their latest Facebook event listings forwarded to the phone on a regular basis for display on ShoZu, ensuring that users won't miss the newest event posts as well as providing convenient reminders of parties and other events.
-- Change their own Facebook status from the ShoZu screen without the expense of sending a premium SMS, whether they're packing for vacation, in a new relationship, or looking for a friend to hang out with.
All content feeds are delivered in the background with no download downtime or other interruption to phone activities. Each new feed is announced with a popup message on the phone idle screen.
"In the last four weeks we have added nine social media sites to our menu of destination options. Now we have significantly extended our Facebook services. All of these steps, and others in the pipeline, are designed to help mobile consumers stay connected with their various social media from a single location on the handset instead of having to interact with each site individually," said ShoZu CEO Mark Bole. "If you have a Facebook profile, store your photos on Flickr, have a blog that you keep up to date from your phone, and Twitter often, ShoZu speeds and simplifies the process."
The ShoZu service allows users to exchange photos, videos, status updates, comments, tweets and other content between their mobile devices and more than three dozen online social networks, photo communities, personal blogs and other social media sites with a click - all from a single screen. Users can mass-publish any photo or video to multiple communities and/or email addresses simultaneously, without the time and expense of creating and paying for multiple messages.
In addition to Facebook - the most popular social networking site in English-speaking countries and the eighth most highly trafficked website on the Internet - ShoZu supports photo and video communities ranging from YouTube and Flickr to Photobucket, Google Picasa, Buzznet, Hyves, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Webshots, Windows Live Spaces, Moblog.uk, Dada.net, Pikeo, Netlog, Samsung Fun Club, HotSMS, blip.tv, Twitpic, Cellfish, Seesmic and Dailymotion.
Other supported sites include personal blogging sites Google Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Vox, WordPress and MetaWeblog; online storage sites Box.net, Qipit and Ipernity; citizen-contributed news desks at CNN, the BBC, ITV, Scoopt and NowPublic; global social network Friendster; and the hit micro-blogging service Twitter.
All sites are accessed from a new interface that is organized by community so that users can upload photos or videos, retrieve friends' photos or other feeds, change their profile, or post comments to any supported community without navigating to multiple screens.
The ShoZu service ships pre-installed on select Motorola, Samsung and Sony Ericsson handsets and is available as a free download to more than 340 additional models. A full list of supported handsets is available at http://www.shozu.com/resources/portal/support/en/support.html.
About ShoZu
ShoZu is the leading provider of mobile social media services that connect mobile consumers with their online social networks, personal blogs, photo storage sites and other Web 2.0 properties from the handset. The company's patented technology provides fast, easy, one-click uploads of photos and video clips from the mobile to the Web, full-resolution photo and video delivery without compression, an emerging suite of services that push content to the phone, the ability to work in the background even if a connection is dropped, and other unique features that simplify and enhance the user experience, plus a mobile advertising service that provides non-intrusive and behaviorally targeted ad delivery. The company was founded in 2000 and has formed partnerships with some of the leading players in the mobile ecosystem, including Motorola and Samsung. For more information, visit www.ShoZu.com/AboutUs.
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