Taking a look at Zlango
Zlango is pretty neat. It’s an entirely ‘new’ language based on using icons, thus:
(That’s me writing ‘I say smstextnews rocks’ — alas there’s no icon for smstextnews yet…!)
I’m going to take a closer look at Zlango shortly — one million users worldwide can’t be wrong — meantime here’s the facts, ma’am:
- Zlango Mobile Application – offers mobile phones and handheld devices a feature-rich messaging experience, with the ability to compose in Zlango, ordinary text, or a mixture of the two. It has all the usual characteristics of a messaging application and is compatible with over 300 different devices
- Zlango Plugins – integrates Zlango with any browser-based messaging service such as Yahoo mail, AOL mail, MSN Hotmail and Gmail. Anyone downloading the extension is able to compose and send Zlango messages
- Zlango IM Extension – Zlango has integrated with ICQ to allow all users to compose, send and receive ZMS’s. Additional integrations to major IM providers are under way
- Zlango Social Site Applications – enables members of social sites such as Facebook to communicate via Zlango icons
- Zlango Website – enables visitors to create and send messages as well as publish them on the site or externally. The site offers Zlango e-cards and merchandise
I first saw this a couple of years ago at 3GSM (as it was then) in Barcelona. One of the benefits is that you can (at least in theory) communicate across language barriers.
Posted by Patrick on February 7th, 2008 at 11:36 am.Am I the only one who interpretated that as “I says SMStextnews eggs”? LOL
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Posted by Ben Smith on February 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm.…and could you understand a word of it without the captions?
Posted by Ben Smith on February 7th, 2008 at 1:24 pm.Without the captions I’d read that as:
NECK SPEECH SMSTEXTNEWS EGGS!
Posted by Dan Lane on February 7th, 2008 at 7:41 pm.