Jan
19
2006ShoZu Phone Blogging
19
2006
I switched to a new phone a couple months back, upgrading to the Audiovox SMT5600 Windows Smartphone — the unofficial official preferred phone of Microsoft employees (for various reasons).
Anyway, I never got around to setting up the phone to post photos to my Flickr site.
So, that’s what I went to do today. The only “setup” required to link a cameraphone to Flickr is to add a “magic” email address to your contact list. Then, to post, you just send your snapped photos to that email address and they show up online. When I went to the Flickr website today to look up my particular magic email address, I noticed a link to a service called “ShoZu“, which aims to drastically simplify the photo blogging process.
Now, on this particular phone, once you take a photo, sending it to Flickr is done like so:
- Click “Menu”
- Click “Send”
- Click “via Email”
- Click to select my usual email account
- Click “Menu”
- Click “Insert Contact”
- Scroll and click my magic Flickr email address
- Click “Send”
It wasn’t much easier on my last phone, either.
After downloading and setting up ShoZu, sending a snapped photo to Flickr involves the following process:
- Click “Yes”
If you want to get fancy, it has other nifty tricks up its sleeve, too.
Very slick. Expect a lot more photoblogging from me in the future. Now, I have no idea how ShoZu intends to make money. It seems to be following the “operate for free in ‘beta’ mode until someone buys us out” business model that has become the norm for “web 2.0″ operations. Regardless, it’s a nice piece of work.
ShoZu actually works with other photo blog services, too (Textamerica and Webshots) , and supports many other phones. If yours is supported, I consider this a must-download.