Liz Lawley showed me this app, ShoZu, at SXSW and it works great. ShoZu lets you do photo blogging from a variety of cell phones. On her phone (an Audiovox SMT5600) it makes sending a photo to Flickr (and a variety of other services) much much easier. This is must have stuff. They don’t have a Cingular 2125 phone listed yet (which is the phone I now use), but I’m going to use the one for the Audiovox that Liz has and see if that’ll work — it should.
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March 16th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
How is it much easier than just sending an email with the pic attached with the subject as the title and the body as the description? I see though that ShoZu lets you tag your photo’s individually, which the native Flickr moblogging functionality doesn’t.
Plus of note they seem to store your iamges on their server for some reason and that it is also a beta with a hint that the final product will be commercial.
March 16th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Actually Flickr’s moblog service does allow you to do tags as well, I must have missed that announcement.
March 16th, 2006 at 3:28 pm
jaseone: a lot easier on my phone.
March 16th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
jaseone: the server in the middle is to allow “suspend and resume” functionality when you lose mobile connectivity (which zoneTag, flickr uploader and others don’t do AFAIK), also sending a photo by email increases the size of the photo by up to 40% (because it has to be MIME encoded), shoZu just sends the photo through a socket
more details on why shoZu is better than lifeblog and other “pretenders” :-) (at least if you have a Series 60 Symbian phone and an unlimited dataplan):
http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2005/10/26/hello_shozu_goodbye_lifeblog
March 16th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
I’m running ShoZu on my Cingular 8125 and not having any problems, should be the same with the 2125.
March 16th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Forgot to mention taht you can also send video from the device to yourself. I’ve shot a video of my 14-month old daughter, emailed it to myself and then uploaded it to MyTube. Other than the crappy video, it’s very painless…
March 16th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
No Windows Mobile 5 / SmartPhone Support. aka PPC-6700 or Treo 700W. That sucks!
March 16th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Also no Palm support so you can’t use it on the Treo 600 or 650.
I was going to give it a go but that idea didn’t last long…
March 16th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
jaseone - If I recall correctly ShoZu will have a version that works on windows mobile soon don’t know about old school palm though
March 16th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
i just found out about shoZu a few weeks ago, and scoble’s definitely right - ShoZu is the Jam! It’s so easy - shoot a picture, and one more click later and your pics are on flickr. easy as pie.
March 17th, 2006 at 3:35 am
I’ve been using this for a few months for my Sony Ericsson k750i and it’s an awesome application - I just wish it had a bit more features (particularly flickr-spesific ones).
March 17th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
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March 19th, 2006 at 6:00 am
This would rock for me, so long as it’s not too heavy.
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Brian
March 19th, 2006 at 1:22 pm
Jasonone: here’s a bit more explanation on why ShoZu stores images.
The main idea is that you can do other things with the image after you’ve uploaded it, without having to upload it over the air a second time.
For example, you can use the ShoZu application on your phone to send the image to an email address. It’s very cheap to do this because the email message is constructed and sent at the ShoZu server.
ShoZu 1.7 (due in April) extends the list of things you can do after upload - for example, posting to a personal blog site. Again, the request is created on the phone and actioned on the server.
ShoZu only stores the images temporarily. When you delete them from your phone, ShoZu also deletes them from the server.
Andy Tiller, CTO Cognima (Creators of ShoZu)
December 27th, 2006 at 3:24 pm
Check out Cellblock, it’s also free and unlike ShoZu doesn’t require any special software.
http://www.cellblock.com