ShoZu Signs Deal with Amp’d Mobile
2/12/07 – ShoZu Inc. today announced a distribution agreement that will make its Share-It uploading service available on phones sold by Amp’d Mobile, the Los Angeles-based mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). The companies claim that the Share-It service will expand Amp’d Mobile’s social networking feature set by enabling subscribers to easily transmit photos and video clips to nearly two dozen media sharing, blogging and community sites using a single ShoZu application on the handset.
ShoZu, which made the announcement at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, says that Amp’d Mobile is its first mobile operator partner in the U.S. Amp’d recently announced several content development deals, as well as a partnership with MTV Networks.
The companies say that the deal announced today will allow subscribers to upload images to online communities ranging from Flickr and YouTube to Buzznet, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, MSN’s Windows Live Spaces, Textamerica, Webshots, Pikeo and/or Moblog.uk. Other choices include personal blogging sites Blogger, TypePad and WordPress; citizen-contributed photojournalism sites like CNN, the BBC and Scoopt; and any FTP or email address.
“ShoZu’s Share-It service enables easy entry to all social networks through their intuitive, single access gateway. Most important to users is the ability to set their own preferences,” said Brian Mullen, director of content business development for Amp’d Mobile.
Amp’d Mobile – get.ampd.com
ShoZu - www.shozu.com
