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ShoZu - EZ all in one mobile social networking
ShoZu is a mobile download which allows you to connect and publish media to most of your favorite social networks in one convenient place. With official support for Facebook, Photobucket, Picasa, Flickr, YouTube, Blogger, LiveJournal, Wordpress, Twitter and a ton more, this might be the mobile lifestream manager you've been looking for.
After downloading and installing ShoZu on your phone (supported on over 300 handhelds), the easiest way to add applications is via your computer. I added Facebook, Twitter, and TwitPic apps quickly by inputting the required user names and passwords and then checked for updates on my handset. Success!
A nice feature is called one click photo destination. This is the setting you select for where you will be sending your photos and videos the most. It will appear as a send-to prompt right after you take a photo or video. There's also the convenience of sending to multiple sites at once via a feature called CC sites.
If you don't want to be prompted about where to send your photo each time, you can also choose the Zero-click upload setting which will automatically upload every photo and video to your primary destination. You have the option of adding tags and descriptions to your uploaded photos and if you have a GPS-enabled phone, when you select GPS settings, ShoZu will geotag your photos for you.
If you have a Flickr account you can download your friends' photostreams and upload to your own, as well as read and reply to comments in your posts. ShoZu also has a convenient feature where you can send multiple photos at once. To do this, press menu and select mark/unmark which will check the photos you wish to send. The bad news is this feature didn't work for me and I ended up sending all my files on my phone individually.
There's a RSS feed of all your uploaded media on your My ShoZu page which you can access when you log in to the service.
ShoZu is a free service however carrier charges may apply depending on your service plan.
(Yes, there's a new iPhone app too).
After spending the better part of an hour on 
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Jaymoon said 3:02PM on 8-29-2008
I've been trying to activate this on my smartphone every few days for the past 2 weeks or so.
Still no luck. Doesn't help either that the websites only response is "just activate it on your phone to continue".
Unless this is just a problem on my end...
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