Recently, Nokia and Flickr joined forces, pre-installing a flickr client on Nokias Nseries phones. While this is good news, there is still a whole lot to be said for sticking with ShoZu – especially since the service has improved immensely since the early days.

Here are a few of the best features in ShoZu:

• Add tags and descriptions to your photos and videos
• Upload photos directly to your blog or your favourite photo sharing service (the list of supported services is long, spanning from Flickr thorugh Buzznet and Picasa web to Facebook, WordPress and Blogger)
• Upload videos to your blog or to YouTube and other video sharing services (Flickr in at little while?)
• Multiple destinations for uploads – Easy upload even if you want to add an image to both Flickr and Facebook (new in 3.2)
• Get comments on your phone and reply to them from your phone – a very handy addition to the service
• A whopping 10mb upload limit per pic/vid (new in 3.2)

Apart from these, there are tons of other nice features, and to top it off ShoZu now supports over 200 of the most popular phones available.

So, if you have a camera phone and share your pics/vids online, ShoZu may very well improve your experience. Provided that you don’t mind a 2-minute installation of the app on your phone – and believe me – it’s that easy.

BTW: I am in no way affiliated with ShoZu. I am just an enthusiastic user

In short Jaiku is a lot like Twitter. But whereas Twitter is an sms-based service, Jaiku is an app that lets you post tiny (140 characters) status messages called Jaikus from your mobile phone or from your personal Jaiku page online – these messages are then visible to your friends on their phones and online. See my Jaiku page for an example. You can also subscribe to feeds from within Jaiku. Updates to these are then posted as ‘Jaikus’. Oh, and that tiny little box in the right column of my blog – that’s a ‘presence badge’ from Jaiku. It displays my latest posts in the sidebar of my blog.

But what’s the point of all this, then?

Well, services like Twitter and Jaiku kinda split the crowd down the middle. Some people – like my colleague Mads, for instance, think they’re excellent, some think they’re horrible and others – and this I think is the largest group – don’t get them. I tended to agree with Stephen Davies over at PRblogger, who basically thinks they’re pointless, but then I tried Jaiku on for size.

Now, at the touch of a few buttons on my celly, I’ve updated my blog and given my Jaiku contacts an update on what I’m up to (I have way too few Jaiku contacts as of now, so feel free to add me if you’re already on Jaiku). It’s good fun, and it allows me to spew tiny thoughts even when I’m not on my laptop. I thoroughly enjoy that.

Jaiku’s self-proclaimed mission is to: ‘bring people closer together by enabling them to share their presence’ – it works! So my advice would be to try it before you knock it. It may not be for everyone, but you may just like it.

Man, this post ended up kind of a mess… Maybe I should’ve written a Jaiku instead – it would have been something along the lines of: ‘liking Jaiku – do try it’ – short and sweet.

And MAN, do I want that iPhone

But what’s up with not making the iPhone UMTS or HSDPA enabled? Edge just doesn’t cut it, speed-wise…Nokia seem to agree with me, but then again – you’d kinda expect them to, right?

Anyway, it looks dead sexy, and I like the fact that it runs OSX software.

Next thing I’m looking forward to know more about is the Modbook – the first ever Mac tablet…. oh, I hope it’s nice!

My pics at Flickr

Check out the Flickr Camera Finder P.S. I found the link at Boing Boing

UPDATE: Found my camera! It’s been increasingly popular thorughout the year