Point, shoot, flick
Flickr, now owned by Yahoo is probably the worlds leading photo sharing site. One of the frustrations of creating an online album, is the hassle of having to get pictures from your camera or camera phone to your pc, and then uploading them to flickr.
If you have one of these handsets, the problem is solved by a cool application called ShoZo. ShoZo handles the sending of your images, text or video and cleverly is able to continue the upload should the connection ever drop out.
ShoZo recently was a winner in the GSM Association 2006 awards.
Auto-tagging and geo-locations is a feature that is coming soon, and I am sure this will only increase the popularity of photo sharing services like Flickr or Webshots.
New Marketing perspectives? This frontiering technology could easily be used to facilitate entries to competitions such as “send in a photo of you enjoying our product”. A phone manufacturer / Flickr joint promotion .. What better way to demonstrate camera phone features, than to deliver this application with the phone encouraging people to create a Flickr account, which in turn would generate a degree of word of mouth buzz (a real product experience worth talking and showing other people).
Thanks for your review of ShoZu.
Related to your point about New Marketing perspectives, we are already working on a feature that will allow ShoZu to upload occasional photo / video posts from a cameraphone to a wide variety of locations (in fact, a personalised list of locations for each ShoZu user).
For example, you might want to send all your photos to Flickr (or to one of the other sites we support), but also to send occasional posts to your blog site, the BBC, Google Video, Grandma’s email address, or (as you suggest) a competition entry.
With ShoZu, this will not only be easy to do, but it will be virtually free. The photos and videos will be sent from the server end, so there is no need to transfer the data over the air again.
Glad you’re enjoying ShoZu.
Andt Tiller
CTO, Cognima (creators of ShoZu)
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