Telecom Italia Mobile and ShoZu have hooked up to give TIM customers access to ShoZu's photo- and video-share services. ShoZu lets users transfer pictures and videos shot with their phones to PC-based social networks, blogs, other community sites and e-mail.

Under the deal, TIM will pre-install ShoZu on 10 handsets and offer them with a flat-rate data package that includes the use of ShoZu and some other services.

ShoZu will also sell and serve ads on its TIM service and share the revenue with the operator. The app will be pre-loaded on phones from Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Onda. Folks with other handsets can download the ShoZu client from the TIM WAP portal.

Slideshow widget maker Fliptrack has raised $5.7 million in funding and changed its name and company focus.

Along with adopting the new moniker, Moblyng, the company is shifting to the mobile market. Its service will let users take content they previously uploaded to their online social network profiles and convert it for viewing on mobile phones, MocoNews reports.

The VC infusion came from Mohr Davidow Ventures and Deep Fork Capital.

ShoZu, a company that lets users post pictures and video taken with a camera phone to a selection of Web sites, has added eight new partner destinations. ShoZu users can now easily post their photos to Cellfish, Dailymotion, Friendster, Ipernity, Photobucket, Seesmic, Twitter and Twitpic.

According to ZDNet's Mobile Gadgeteer, the new additions bring ShoZu's destination partners up to 36 sites including Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Picasa and WordPress. You can also reportedly add your own custom destinations if there's a particular site you favor for photo sharing.

Camera phone addicts who don't have enough ways to share their pictures now have a new option. SnapMyLife, a brand new mobile social media site, is now live after a three-month testing period.

In March, during the test phase, the site saw some 500,000 unique visitors from 180 countries and served up more than four million page views.

SnapMyLife accepts photos via MMS, e-mail and uploads from the Web and mobile Web. According to the company, there's no need to ever get a PC involved - uploading, sharing, alerts and commenting can all be achieved right on the phone.

The service wants to remain family-friendly, so it uses some filtering technology to reduce the risk of, um, mature content.

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Mobile content portal FunMobility has unveiled MyShow, which it says is the first user-generated mobile slideshow publishing application. MyShow is accessible both on the Web and on mobile, so users can browse content, create slideshows and share their "life stream" from anywhere.

The app lets users automatically put together a slideshow around pictures stored in a camera phone, personalize a mobile slideshow with text and background music and upload pictures from the MyShow Web site to add to a mobile slideshow or create the slideshow on a PC. There's also a MyShow widget that they can embed on their Facebook, MySpace or other social networking site.

FunMobility said MyShow will debut with a U.S. carrier by April 30, but it didn't specify which carrier that would be or when other operators might pick it up.

Mobile content and services provider FunMobility has acquired Moblastic, a mobile social company that specializes in "innovative photo editing technology with mobile capabilities." That essentially boils down into letting users add bling - animated glitter and sparkles, text bubbles and other doodads - to their pictures and send them to any phone. It also brings a live Facebook app and mobile slideshow technology.

FunMobility sees the buy as a way to speed its push into the direct-to-consumer space by providing cool Web functionality to mobile users.

Financial terms were not disclosed.

Tapatap has gone global with a new version of its Web site that opens its social mobile gaming community to folks on just about any wireless network worldwide, Mobile Entertainment reports. The Silicon Valley start-up's mobile community is centered around photo games and contests. Members can upload and share their photos as well as enter them into one of the site's numerous daily or monthly contests. If the "official" Tapatap contests aren't enough, members can even make up their own.

According to the article, Tapatap has two million users who have posted 180,000 photos and created 5,000 games and contests since the service launched in June of last year.

KillerStartups has a profile of Dagruk.com, a newcomer that deals in humorous images for cell phone contacts. According to the article, the company says a "dagruk" is a "purposeful display of ridiculously funny pictures of family and friends."

The free service divvies its images into TV, movies, funny men, funny women and "I have no idea" to make it a little easier for you to find just the right photo to show up on caller ID when the boss phones.

Dagruk works on most major US carriers and can be accessed directly from the phone or via the Internet on a PC.

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Photobucket just launched a mobile version of its photo-sharing service, according to a report in today's Online Media Daily.

Photobucket Mobile will "let users wirelessly browse existing personal and public site content, upload photos and videos, share and search content and view featured photos from the site's mobile home page."

Photobucket Mobile is the latest in a series of moves by parent Fox Interactive Media to extend Web properties including MySpace, FoxSports.com and IGN Entertainment to handheld devices, according to the report.

Photobucket Launches Mobile Photo-Sharing Service [MediaPost]