Phonetagger

I first heard about ShoZu from Roland, Shozu’s number one fan. Roland should know, he’s shot thousands of photos with the cellphones he’s had over the years. Once I downloaded Shozu, I was hooked too. Shozu makes it easy to upload photos to Flickr, Buzznet, Textamerica, and Webshots.

If you shoot video on your phone you can set it up to email the video to your account over at Blip.tv or Buzznet where they’ll transcode your movie into Flash and splash their logo all over it. Blip is really the way to go, but they have not added mp4 to their list of usable formats for email upload so if you’ve got a super snazzy phone like the Nokia N70, then Buzznet is your choice.. For now over at Blip, the video you send has to be 3gp.

While at SXSW, i had a chance to hang out with Andy Tiller and we shot this interview on a Nokia N70 phone, and uploaded over the air with ShoZu. It’s 352 x 288 pixels and 560 kbits/sec. The phone records at about 4 MB. Here’s a link to the origional footage straight out of the phone.

While shooting this video we explored Nokia’s Director Application which has the capability to turn your photos into slide show movies.

If you want to share any photos from your phone, ShoZu is the must-have application. As a bonus, ShoZu also syncs your contacts and downloads any comments you get on your photos.

Cost: Free
Sign up online at http://shozu.com.

Watch the Video