We are very excited to take our partnership with RIM to the next level and offer our very first version of ShoZu for your BlackBerry Pearl and Curve, available for download right now!
Some of you have sneakily found the download on our homepage already ;-) but now we are delighted to put out our official announcement. This gives you even more reason to be surgically attached to your BlackBerry 24 hours a day, since it's no longer just your corporate email and calendar - it's your entire online social life as well!
Click here to get your copy ..and enjoy your new freedom!
I did a bunch of work for a local news station in my long haired, goatee touting, superstar university student days. Basically what this involved was sifting through a staggering payload of faxes every morning then spending 24 hours a day permanently handcuffed to your police radio. We spent so much time with our radios we named them after our favorite female celebrities. Mine was called Posh. If we drove across divided highways and through a few backyards we'd often beat the police to the scene, which was great, but we'd never beat the crowds of people who witnessed everything right from the start. The problem here is that they had nothing more than an anecdotal story to recall. And some of these characters were the most boring people on camera you'd ever seen.
But today is the age of the cameraphone and the big news organizations now acknowledge their importance in telling the whole story right from the beginning. What's the one device you've always got with you?
So we've just added yet another new site to our already exploding catalogue: NowPublic is the world's largest 'participatory news network' allowing you to not only upload your newsworthy pics and vids with ShoZu, but also write the entire story yourself.
If citizen journalism is 'news' to you, then you should probably be checking the continuously-updating ShoZu site catalogue on your phone a bit more often, because these ones are already in there :-) And yep, they'll pay you if you send up something good. So you don't need a radio called Posh and 200 outstanding traffic infringements, you've got everything you need to be a journalist right there in your pocket!
No sleep for the ShoZu crew, we've just added eight more sites to our catalogue: Photobucket, Dailymotion, Friendster, Twitter, Twitpic, Cellfish, Seesmic and Ipernity. And if you think 36 sites is still not enough choice, then fear not, we have a whole bunch more waiting in the wings and going live very soon! So stay tuned.
Here's what you can do with these new sites:
- Upload images to Photobucket, the most popular photo site in the U.S., and also have your most recently posted photos sent to the handset for sharing on the go
- Upload videos to Dailymotion, the 2nd largest video sharing website in the world with 36.2 million unique visitors
- Upload photos and change your social status on Friendster, a global social network and the 35th most visited website on the planet
- Sign up to your latest friend and personal ‘tweet’ timelines on Twitter and post your replies with this truly epic micro-blogging service
- Share photos on Twitter with Twitpic
- Upload photos and videos to Cellfish
- Upload to interactive personal video 'dashboard' Seesmic
- Save everything to online storage site, Ipernity
You can start using these new sites right now by simply signing into your account at www.shozu.com and clicking Add sites, or by selecting the Add sites or Add destination option on your phone.
Enjoy!
