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02.15.06
ShoZu Adds Geotagging for Flickr, YouTube...
 By Glenn Letham
Oh man... while away I almost missed out in this announcement. It involves some of my favorite web services and one of the coolest, free mobile apps around.
What do you get when you combine Shozu mobile uploading app with YouTube, Flickr, and then throw in Geotagging too??
Well, you get a kick-ass application that any smartphone would be an idiot to ndo without! Shozu has recently added all this capability to their latest and its amazing.
Here's some more details from Shozu (announcement made at 3GSM)... ShoZu Adds Geotagging for Flickr, YouTube & 5 Other Sites - the Share-It one-click image uploading service now offers location tagging for photos and video clips sent from GPS-enabled phones to Flickr and YouTube as well as Buzznet, Dada.net, moblogUK, Pikeo and Textamerica.
ShoZu is the only upload service that provides automatic geotagging for cameraphone uploads to more than one Internet destination.
It also supports more GPS handsets than any other provider.
With the new geotagging feature, GPS-enabled handsets equipped with the ShoZu application can attach latitude and longitude information to images automatically upon capture.
ShoZu will then send this information to any Share-It destination that supports tagging, along with all other tags the user has created manually. In the case of Flickr, uploaded images will also be displayed automatically in their precise location on the user's Flickr map.
For users, geotags make it possible to search community photo repositories by geographical location just as they would search by any other tag, whether to explore a vacation destination, find photos of a certain city or area that contributors have failed to tag with location information, or simply hunt for users with common interests.
Non-Flickr users who want mapping capabilities can pinpoint the exact location of geotagged photos of interest by pasting the geotags into an application like Google Earth. THIS IS SWEET! see www.shozu.com
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Telecoms To Unite Against Google, Yahoo?
 By Doug Caverly
The Yahoo Developer Network is apparently lacking in functionality, or maybe it’s just not as functional as its parent company would like.
Not to worry, though – Krugle, Inc. “will supply search functionality” thanks to a new arrangement.
Krugle, which is based in Menlo Park, California, has defined itself as “the code search engine.”
On its “About Us” page, Krugle claims that it can save customers time, money, and headaches – which is a fairly standard set of assertions – but it may be the only company in the world that also includes a reference to Shakespeare.
All right, so dropping the name “Hamlet” doesn’t exactly reflect on Krugle’s business abilities. But less than a month ago, the company received a bit of a boost in profile when Robert Scoble advised Microsoft to “look to Krugle for your search woes.”
Now, although the boys in Redmond may not have heard the call, it appears as if Yahoo received the message and obeyed.
Laura Merling, Krugle’s Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, took a moment to say some nice things about her new pals.
“The YDN guys, Chad Dickerson and Matt McAlister, have really done an amazing job at reaching out to the developer community – hats off to them for being so excited about what developers could do with Krugle . . .” she wrote.
Merling’s boss, Krugle CEO Steve Larsen, also had an upbeat tone when he made an official statement.
“With this partnership,” he began, “Krugle will make it easier than ever to leverage the true potential of Yahoo!’s open APIs and Web Services.”
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Doug is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest eBusiness news.
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