Tired of trying to keep track of all the places you need – or want? – to post updates and photos online? Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a
single service that could aggregate all of those services under one
virtual roof? Of course it would. Say hello to ShoZu, a comprehensive service for sharing all of your latest mobile bits via the web and your Nokia mobile device.

If you use multiple services for things like status updates (Facebook or Myspace to name but a few), microblogging (Twitter), sharing photos and videos (Picasa, YouTube, Flickr, PhotoBucket, Ovi – more than I can name, really), or even the new-fangled “citizen journalism,” then ShoZu should be on your short-list of single apps to organize them all. A comprehensive list of supported services is online. You can also use ShoZu as a routing tool when you want to send pictures and videos to friends or family via e-mail. Honestly, it supports services I’ve never even heard of before – and I tend to think I’m pretty savvy when it comes to this stuff.

Once you install ShoZu on your Nokia S60 device and complete a simple one-time registration process – and it works on a broad range of Nokia devices (at least 69, if my math is right …) – you can begin to add sites or services that you already use to the tool. I have been using the app on my Nokia N97 (the touch-based interface of the app is quite good), and I added several of the services that I use on a regular basis.

One of the things I really like about ShoZu is that it provides on-screen alerts when there are updates to any of the accounts your are tracking, such as Facebook. So you don’t have to obsess with checking the site every five minutes – unless you like to do that sort of thing – ShoZu does the work for you. And when something has changed, you’ll be the first to know (I promise).

The app is also really fast (although this likely has some dependency on the nature of your network connection …) – status updates zip right along, and posting photos to online sharing sites is a snap. In fact, you can set up ShoZu so that when you take pictures – or videos – it will prompt you right away to ask if you want to post the image online to one of your preselected destinations.

Now, one small caveat – and this is not a criticism of the app: I would argue that ShoZu is not for social-sharing amateurs. Rather, it is to say, this app will be most appreciated by those who are social-sharing mavens. If you share a LOT of content online, ShoZu is a super-handy organizer, and likely a time saver, too.

Need more convincing? This video demo of ShoZu can explain any of the details I might have missed:

What are you waiting for? ShoZu is available in Ovi Store for $4.99 (USD).