RCR Wireless News says Sprint is teaming with VeriSign’s Xoomerang platform to enable subscribers to send photos and videos from their phones to popular social media sites like MySpace, Photobucket and YouTube. Sprint plans to add other online communities in the near future.
The service is free for subscribers with Sprint Picture Mail. With Xoomerang, they can:
- Publish – Capture and publish videos and pictures to popular destinations with a single click.
- View – Explore media across destinations or view the latest comments on a friend’s wall.
- Interact – Set their status, leave a comment on a cool video or a friend’s wall, Edit, Tag, Comment, Post, Rate, Save, Create, Enhance, and more.
Meanwhile, Verizon Wireless unveiled a similar service last week using Ontela, a Seattle startup. The $3-a-month downloadable application automatically sends pictures from phones directly to users’ Photobucket accounts.
The NY Times says there are lots of ways to edit, download and send a photo to an online service.
Nokia has its own method for easy photo sharing. The N96, for example, offers four icons — one for trash, one for saving the shot to the camera’s internal gallery, one for e-mailing the photo, and one for sending it to “Share on Ovi,” Nokia’s free online media sharing service.
You can also download free software like ShoZu, either from their mobile Web browser (m.shozu.com) or from ShoZu.com. ShoZu says millions of handsets will be distributed this year in the United States with its software preinstalled.
Online photo sharing services like Flickr, or a mobile social networking service like Radar.net also have their own mobile software that you can download.
Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile beta lets you upload, view, and share photos online from a Windows Mobile phone. You need a Photoshop.com membership, but the basic services are free.
Mobile Photoshop.com is a free beta download and you can edit photos online, storing up to 2GB of photos there free. The $49 Plus service provides 20GB of storage — enough for up to 15,000 photos or four hours of DVD-quality video, says Adobe (how to videos).
