Send Any Image to Multiple Web Sites & Emails with One Click with Free Utility for PCs & Macs
Until now, sending a given photo or video clip from your computer to your Flickr album, Facebook page, TypePad blog and multiple email addresses required opening and uploading to three different websites as well as creating and sending a separate email message — essentially repeating the same step four times and more if you belong to more communities. ShoZu Desktop, a free new utility for PCs and Macs, saves time by allowing users to mass-publish any image to multiple social media sites and emails with one click.
Simply download ShoZu Desktop from https://www.shozu.com, set up a ShoZu account and input your destinations. (If you already have a ShoZu account for your mobile phone, you can use the same setup.)
To send an image, drag and drop a photo into ShoZu from anywhere on your desktop; add titles, tags and descriptions; and select the desired destinations from your pre-configured ShoZu list. Alternatively, a “CC” option presets the application to send each media upload to as many of your pre-set destinations as you choose, with a single click. There is no limit on the number of websites or email addresses to receive a given image.
Destination options include social networks and photo/video communities Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google Picasa, Faces, Buzznet, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Webshots, Windows Live Spaces, Moblog.uk, Dada.net, Pikeo, Faces.com, blip.tv and Cellfish; personal blogging sites Google Blogger, LiveJournal, Textamerica, TypePad, Vox, WordPress and MetaWeblog; online storage site Box.net; citizen-contributed photojournalism sites CNN, the BBC and Scoopt; and any email and FTP addresses. ShoZu adds support for new sites on a regular basis.
“As more people are realizing the power of social networking, they are also seeing how much time it takes to keep up with multiple communities. ShoZu has solved this problem for mobile users, and now we are doing the same thing for desktop users,” said ShoZu CEO Mark Bole. “ShoZu Desktop allows people to publish content to one, some or all of the social media communities in which they participate from their PC or Mac without the time and frustration of signing in and transferring content to each site individually. It makes it much faster and easier to keep your online social presence updated.”
That, in fact, is a challenge for many users. A 2007 study by Parks Associates found that nearly half of all social networkers regularly use more than one site, while one in six use three or more. That does not include other social media properties such as photo communities.
ShoZu’s own data indicates that more than one-third of the users of the company’s mobile uploading services publish images to multiple social media websites as well as to email addresses, and that proportion is growing every week.
ShoZu’s mobile client, currently pre-installed on newer Motorola and Samsung phones and downloadable to nearly 340 additional handset models, offers the same mass publishing capabilities as ShoZu Desktop without opening a mobile browser and with just one data upload charge from the user’s wireless carrier. It also allows users to add tags, title and descriptions from their mobile devices before or after uploading; transfer photos at either blog quality or full resolution; send video clips up to 10 minutes in length; and receive friends’ newest Flickr photos and other social media content to the handset automatically as soon as it is posted — all capabilities unique to ShoZu.
