Vizrea today announced its new next generation social network service that lets people share their life from anywhere. With Vizrea, users can now share their photos, videos, blogs, and podcasts with friends and family, privately or publicly by mobile, PC, or the Web. On 3G and other high speed networks, Vizrea additionally provides access to PC-based music content on mobile phones – providing a way for users to listen to songs in their digital library anywhere.

Built upon this year’s successful free trial version of Vizrea Snap for camera phone users, the new Vizrea service uniquely combines compelling social network community features with support for the mobile phone, PC and the Web. The Vizrea service is based on a state-of-the-art content platform that allows people to share and organize their content simultaneously.

“It’s a busy world and hard to stay connected to friends and family,” said Mike Toutonghi, president and CEO of Vizrea, Corp. “Vizrea is committed to providing a service where people can simply share their life with others around the world in real-time anywhere and anyway they want to.”

The Vizrea service is made up of three pieces – software for mobile phones, software for PCs, and the Web. Any one or two work great together, but all three make the experience of sharing, organizing and accessing content anywhere more complete. Key features for each area include:

Mobile

  • A personal mobile Web site letting users share pictures, videos, audio, public, or private comments with anyone with an Internet enabled phone.
  • Mobile messaging allowing Internet-enabled phones to easily send photos, video, audio, and even collections of media to another mobile.
  • Upload camera phone photos, videos and blog posts to a user’s PC and/or Web site on Vizrea.
  • Downloads of any photos and videos on a user’s PC or Web site to their mobile phone – turning that phone into a portable digital photo album.

Web and PC

  • For the first time user, Vizrea automatically creates a Web site and provides customization options so that users can creatively design their own page.
  • Sharing Vizrea content on other blogs or social networking sites and vice versa.
  • A flexible sharing wizard lets the user control how they want to share his content – privately or publicly, and send messages through email or to friends’ phones, or both.
  • On 3G and other high speed networks, the service supports the streaming of music from the PC to compatible cell phones so users can listen to music from their PC on their mobile.
  • As an option, Vizrea can automatically scan in existing digital media, creating one central service where they can access, organize and share photos, videos and other content.

“With a variety of devices, media types, and an increasing number of friends to share stuff with, the market is desperately looking for a comprehensive, easy-to-use service that takes the complexity out of the media sharing, syncing and using experience” said Rob Enderle, Principal Analyst for the Enderle Group. “Vizrea appears to do the best job of eliminating the complexity in this environment, making it easy-to-use and share media in today’s increasingly diverse hardware and software world.”

The mobile media sharing industry is continuing to grow in popularity. According to a recent study by Enpocket Mobile Media Monitor, May 2006, 52% of mobile users in both the US and UK listed picture messaging as their most favored application.

Downloading Vizrea
In addition to its Web site and mobile Web site, Vizrea is being launched with support for Symbian Series 60 2nd Edition and 3rd Edition phones and runs on Windows XP for PC. Free software packages for phones and the PC can be downloaded here. To install and use Vizrea on the PC, a recent version of Windows XP with Windows XP Service Pack 1 or higher, Windows Media Player 9 or later, and .NET Framework 1.1 or higher are required. To use Vizrea for phones, mobile service must include Internet access and photo or video capability.

Pricing
The Vizrea service, including mobile messaging will be free for the next 60 days. Afterwards, users will be charged for mobile messages and some premium features but the core service will remain free of charge.