NowPublic.com Announces Partnership with ShoZu, Making On-the-Go Journalism Easier and More Accessible to All
World's Largest Participatory News Network Taps Leader in Wireless Image Publishing
VANCOUVER, British Columbia /PRNewswire/ -- NowPublic.com (http://www.nowpublic.com/),
the world's largest participatory news network, today announced a key
partnership enabling consumers to quickly and easily send photos and
videos to NowPublic from their mobile phones using ShoZu, the market's
leading provider of mobile social media services. Effective
immediately, ShoZu will include NowPublic as a destination option on
its phone application and in its website catalog of destination sites.
The ShoZu service ships pre-installed on select Motorola, Samsung
and Sony Ericsson handsets and is available as a free download to more
than 340 additional models.
"With today's mobile devices, everyone has the power of the press,"
said Leonard Brody, CEO of NowPublic. "NowPublic's integration with
ShoZu makes it that much easier for our community members to share
their photos and videos as news happens. It also gives users the
ability to submit content to all of their social communities and email
addresses from a single screen on the handset, providing added value
for NowPublic contributors."
"NowPublic is a textbook example of the need to transfer images from
your camera phone without waiting to get to a computer. You capture
news on the spot, and you need to post it immediately," said Mark Bole,
ShoZu's CEO. "This partnership equips NowPublic community members with
a fast, user-friendly and reliable solution for mobile-to-Web
connectivity."
The ShoZu service allows users to upload photos, videos and text
such as status updates, comments and tweets directly from their mobile
devices to more than three dozen social media sites ranging from
Facebook to YouTube, Flickr, Google Blogger, Twitter and beyond with a
click. Users can mass-publish any photo or video to multiple
communities and/or email addresses simultaneously, without the time and
expense of creating and paying for multiple messages.
ShoZu also uniquely enables users to send video clips of up to 10
minutes in length; add tags, titles and descriptions from their mobile
devices; and upload the photos of their choice at either full or
blog-quality resolution. In addition, ShoZu is the only service in its
class that can send friends' photostreams, status changes and social
network invites directly to the handset on request, eliminating the
need to open a mobile browser or navigate to various sites to find
friends' latest postings or update social profiles on the go.
About NowPublic
NowPublic.com is a crowd-sourced, participatory news network that
mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our
world. In its short history, the company has become the largest news
organization of its kind with contributing reporters in over 5,500
cities and 160 countries. The Guardian has named NowPublic.com one of
the top five most useful news sites on the Web and Time Magazine named
it one of the Top 50 Websites for 2007. The company has received
funding from Rho Ventures, Rho Canada, Brightspark, GrowthWorks and
members of the New York Angels.
About ShoZu
ShoZu is the leading provider of mobile social media services that
connect mobile consumers with their online social networks, personal
blogs, photo storage sites and other Web 2.0 properties from the
handset. The company's patented technology provides fast, easy,
one-click uploads of photos and video clips from the mobile to the Web,
full-resolution photo and video delivery without compression, an
emerging suite of services that push content to the phone, the ability
to work in the background even if a connection is dropped, and other
unique features that simplify and enhance the user experience, plus a
mobile advertising service that provides non-intrusive and behaviorally
targeted ad delivery. The multi-award winning company was founded in
2000 and has formed partnerships with some of the leading players in
the mobile ecosystem, including Motorola and Samsung. For more
information, visit www.ShoZu.com/AboutUs.
Contacts:
For NowPublic.com: For ShoZu:
Chris Macowski Heather Kelly
The Morris + King Company S&S Public Relations
212-561-7459 719-634-8274
chris.macowski@morris-king.com heather@sspr.com
Source: NowPublic.com
CONTACT: Chris Macowski, The Morris + King Company, 
+1-212-561-7459
,
chris.macowski@morris-king.com, for NowPublic.com; or Heather Kelly, S&S
Public Relations, +1-719-634-8274, heather@sspr.com, for ShoZu
Web site:
http://www.nowpublic.com/
http://www.shozu.com/AboutUs