Comments on: 3GSM – ShoZu: It’s All About The User Experience

By: ben

ben — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:28:30 +0000

Yes the photo upload is a good product, but all this media channel stuff is nonsense! Why pay for what you can get as a podcast? It makes no sense, and will fold unless they can concentrate on the main poduct.

By: MMS to Combat London Grafitti at MobHappy

MMS to Combat London Grafitti at MobHappy — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:59:58 +0000

[...] But I assume that you take the photo via the Java app, which then uploads it to Lewisham Council – a bit like a white label ShoZu. [...]

By: Great New Moblogging App… As Long As You Use Blogger at MobHappy

Great New Moblogging App… As Long As You Use Blogger at MobHappy — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:56:14 +0000

[...] Fortunately, there are independent providers trying to bridge this gap with more open solutions, like ShoZu. Another platform-agnostic service, Netomat, announced today that it can now work with Flickr to send newly uploaded photos from groups to mobile devices, optimized for their displays. While it doesn’t look like Netomat can upload photos to Flickr at this point, its integration with it and the ease with which it lets people share information from all different types of online sources via mobile devices shows the kind of mobile/fixed integration that’s needed. [...]

By: John

John — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:00:32 +0000

I used flickr’s upload via email and mobile interface for awhile before using Shozu. While it was a-ok to use, the number of clicks and context changes (camera, email app, browse for the right file) made it unwieldy.

Shozu excels in that regard as far as I’m concerned. I like that it pops up right after I take a pic, and can either upload it immediately or skip uploading and choose the best pics to upload later in the Shozu app itself.

While I haven’t quite gotten Merkitys-meaning to work yet, I do like that it makes the adding of tags, title and description very accessible at the time of capture – I don’t have to sink multiple clicks into navigating contextual menus to add tags etc.

By: Andy Tiller

Andy Tiller — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:31:48 +0000

And a reply to Joshua…

I’ve also found Merkitys interesting, and reasonably compatible with ShoZu. How about keeping both apps on your phone?

Andy

By: Andy Tiller

Andy Tiller — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:55:02 +0000

Response to Tim:

You can indeed access Flickr from your phone’s browser – for example using Flickr Mobile (http://flickr.com/mob/), which is pretty cool.

However, the high latency on mobile networks, and the constraints of the mobile user interface, make any interactive browser-based application a bit of an effort to use on a mobile phone.

ShoZu basically makes it easier to upload photos, add tags, titles and descriptions, and to read other people’s comments on your phone.

For example, you can upload a photo with a single click, and then just get on with other activities on your phone. (If a photo upload is interrupted, ShoZu automatically resumes from the point of failure next time the network is available. This is one of the reasons why ShoZu is cheaper to use than alternatives.)

We’re introducing support for new phones all the time, so I hope you’ll get to try ShoZu soon.

Andy

By: Joshua Dickens

Joshua Dickens — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:35:06 +0000

CognimaÇƒÙs CEO says they all religiously follow what people are saying about ShoZu by using things like Technorati to track blogs.

This is definitely true. I wrote about Shozu and other methods of uploading photos to Flickr on my little old blog–which has very little traffic — and I was surprised and heartened to receive a comment from Andy Tiller, Cognima’s CTO. He corrected some errors in my review, and thanked me for writing kind words about Shozu. I thought this was especially cool, since I’m not an a-list or even b-list blogger.

And I must say that the new version of Shozu is super, they’ve really enhanced the tagging experience, as well as the email functions that you mentioned. Now I’m just torn between Shozu’s great user experience and Merkitys-Meaning’s location/context automatic tagging. Right now Shozu wins because Meaning keeps crashing…

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:56:03 +0000

Just had a quick try with Shozu – and of course my phone is not listed – a newer iMate Jammin Pocket PC Phone Edition. And that made me wonder – why can’t I just access Flickr directly from the browser on my phone? What value does ShoZu add to this?

Cheers,
Tim