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There are several media-pushing services represented at the opening of the iTunes App Store, each with their own combination of supported sites. ShoZu (covered here) remains the whopper of them all with support for roughly 30 popular social sites and services. There are the major players, of course–Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket, Blogger, Picasa, LiveJournal–but ShoZu isn’t too high and mighty to upload text and images to some of the more niche guys, like Box.Net qipit, Snapfish, and SmugMug.

With so many services ready to cram into an app interface, things could get tangled up fast. But they don’t, partly due to the iPhone’s nice big screen and partly due to a structure designed to keep order. Frequent uploaders can automate multiplatform-pushing by going online and adding up to ten child services to be copied each time media is posted to the parent service.

My biggest gripe? That while you can sign up for a ShoZu account from the iPhone itself, you have to visit the Web site to arrange for multi-pinging. It’s the glue that ties ShoZu together for many users, and is something they’ll need to add to truly be a stand-alone app on the iPhone.

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ShoZu shares iPhone photos in one swell swoop

My favorite thing about open platforms that allow third party developers to run wild is when those independent programmers actually do. Jeffrey Grossman wrote a free native application called Movies.app that revolves around movie listings and offers everything from from a straightforward, yet sophisticated lookup by movie or theater to a crisp, clear preview on the phone.

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Grossman wisely included the other essential information that every moviegoer may want or need, including supporting information on IMDB, a lists of popular movies currently in theaters, and another list of shows coming to theaters soon (first up is Dark Knight). There’s also a way to buy tickets on the spot through the iPhone brand of Movietickets.com, and complete Google-powered maps and directions. The only things missing are user reviews and stars for theaters with the best popcorn.

Note: Movies.app currently provides listings for U.S. theaters only. All users may watch trailers and read up on opening flicks.

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Find a silver screen from your iPhone screen

Not sure how useful this will be for most folks, but if you’re a fan of browser-based chat service Meebo and would like to use it right on your desktop there’s a Adobe AIR application called Meebone that will do just that with some elegance

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Like Gabtastik, which does the same thing with Facebook Chat and Google Talk, Meebone will effectively trick the Web app into thinking it’s running in your browser. the big difference is that you’ll be able to move around chat windows and minimize them to your taskbar like you would any other desktop chat app.

Speaking of which, the key differentiation between this and something like Pidgin, Digsby, or Trillian is that you’ll get access to Meebo Rooms and the integrated applications platform, letting you shoot tank shells at your buddy while catching up with them in the text chat.

[via Lifehacker and Appaholic]

Want to use Meebo on your desktop? Check out Meebone, an Adobe AIR application that fools Meebo into thinking it's running on your desktop

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Put Meebo IM on your desktop with Meebone

Dark and lustrous, Twitterific for iPhone is one of the best-looking apps from the iTunes App Store I’ve seen all day. The application, originally built for Mac by software publisher Iconfactory, is a premium Twitter updater that sells for about $15. This iPhone app, however, comes as a free ad-serving version or as a premium version.

Twitterific is also one of the more complex applications, and it takes its role as a Twitter service seriously, serving up a an environment, tweeting experience, and navigation–complete with hints!–all its own. Twitterific has also maximized on the iPhone SDK by integrating location-awareness and camera power to let iPhone and iPod Touch users upload images taken on-the-spot and their location into the message.

While you won’t be able to add new friends from Twitterific’s timeline interface, it does come equipped with an internal browser where you can access Twitter.com without leaving behind Twitterific’s embrace. As a show of real customer service, Twitterific includes shrunken URLs by course, a tutorial for including a Safari bookmarklet for posting tweets from open browser pages, and an optional configuration for southpaws. Not bad for a “simple” Twitter-helping app.

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Looks and smarts: Twitterific for the iPhone

Dark and lustrous, Twitterrific for iPhone is one of the best-looking apps from the iTunes App Store I’ve seen all day. The application, originally built for Mac by software publisher Iconfactory, is a premium Twitter updater a free trial that sells for about $15. This iPhone app, however, comes as a free ad-serving version or as a premium version.

Twitterrific is also one of the more complex applications, and it takes its role as a Twitter service seriously, serving up a an environment, tweeting experience, and navigation–complete with hints!–all its own. Twitterrific has also maximized on the iPhone SDK by integrating location-awareness and camera power to let iPhone and iPod Touch users upload images taken on-the-spot and their location into the message.

While you won’t be able to add new friends from Twitterrific’s timeline interface, it does come equipped with an internal browser where you can access Twitter.com without leaving behind Twitterrific’s embrace. As a show of real customer service, Twitterrific includes shrunken URLs by course, a tutorial for including a Safari bookmarklet for posting tweets from open browser pages, and an optional configuration for southpaws. Not bad for a “simple” Twitter-helping app.

>>Catch up on all the latest App Store reviews and iPhone 3G news.

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Looks and smarts: Twitterrific for the iPhone