That’s me – with my magnetic personality with butterflies, uploaded at the Singapore Zoo via Share on Ovi.

It’s no secret that Nokia announced its entry into the Web 2.0 Services with Ovi last August 2008. Around February of this year, Share on Ovi was launched, which is basically their competitor to Flickr. Share on Ovi allows you to upload photos, videos, audio, and documents and categorize them into channels. These channels subdivide your media into different categories but more importantly allow you to set passwords and privacy settings for each channel.

There doesn’t seem to be a limit to the number of media you can upload. Video uploading allows you to do 100MB of videos at a time and photo EXIF and geotagging data are also recorded, when turned on. By far, it seems to be a “Flickr killer” because it looks almost the same, with almost the same features, and is still on beta. There has been no official word on the release of the Share API to allow a developer community to create photos and videos though. Check it out – www.share.ovi.com and really, let’s see if this FREE service is going to give Flickr a run for their money.

Share on Ovi is only a part of the full Ovi experience but it is by far the easiest to understand and has been launched worldwide. Other services such as the Music Store are going to be making waves within the next few months. In Asia, the service has only been launched in Australia and Singapore.

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